FDL

4^THFOUNDATION DAY LECTURE (FDL)

The National Productivity Centre hosted its 4th Foundation Day Lecture (FDL) on the 25^th June, 2009 in Abuja Nigeria.

This lecture is one of the core programmes of the National Productivity Centre designed to bring the issue of productivity to a national focus through the sharing of experiences of other nations in their efforts towards higher productivity. This is with a desire to reawaken the productivity consciousness of the citizenry.

The lecture is a one-day, programme organized once in two years under the aegis of the Centre’s liaison/International Linkages Programme.

Participants and discussants are drawn from the academia and research institutions, the diplomatic corps, public service, industries as well as the informal sector of the Nigerian economy.

OBJECTIVES

The overall objective of this programme is to educate Nigerians on productivity movements in various parts of the world and to generate a national discourse that will stimulate the development of a productivity mindset among all Nigerians.

Other objectives include:

To create national consciousness towards a sustainable productivity-driven economy.
To highlight the importance of labour in the process of enhancing national output, higher performance, growth and sustainable development.
To deliberate on strategies necessary for promoting productivity in the economy.

THEME OF 4th FOUNDATION DAY LECTURE:

The Role of Productivity in National Economic Growth and Development.

Guest Speaker: Dr. A.N. Saxena,

President, World Confederation of Productivity Science,

India and Executive Vice-President (International) World

Academy of Productivity Science.

Panelists: Comrade Issa Aremu

Deputy President,

Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC)

Dr. Ike Abugu

President, National Association of Small and Medium

Enterprises (NASME), Lagos.

FOUNDATION DAY LECTURES EARLIER HELD

Four series of the Foundation Day Lecture (FDL) have so far been held by the Centre. These are:

1^ST FOUNDATION LECTURE

Title: “Productivity Movement in Asia: The Indian Experience.”

Guest Speaker: Mr. S.A. Khader, Deputy Director-General, Indian Productivity Council.

Date: May 27, 1997

2^ND FOUNDATION LECTURE

Title: “Higher Productivity through a Well-Motivated Workforce: Key to Better Quality of life in the next Millennium.”

Guest Speaker: Prof. J.O. Irukwu, National Productivity Order of Merit Winner.

Date: October 14, 1999

3^RD FOUNDATION LECTURE

Title: “Challenges of Productivity in the Transformation of National Economy.”

Guest Speaker: Prof. Jerry Gana, Former Minister of Information & National Orientation

Date: December 31, 2001

4^TH FOUNDATION LECTURE

Title: “Productivity Challenges of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the West African Sub-Region.”

Guest Speaker: Dr. Muhammad Ibn Chambas, Executive Secretary, ECOWAS

Date: February 21, 2006

IMPACT

Speakers at the previous Foundation Day Lecture were either members of the International Productivity family or Nigerians whose contributions to global discourse have been symbolic.

The Foundation Day Lecture has been a veritable tool for reaching large segments of the society and arousing their consciousness on the subject of productivity mirrored from the global perspective.