1. Resource Management in an Emerging Economy: A Panacea to YOUTH Restiveness Paper delivered by Dr. Norris W Dalton. CEO South African Institute of Management (SAIM)

2. 2 Abstract The YOUTH are not the Problem; The YOUTH are themselves the Solution, if only they can be taught How?

3. 3 Introduction ‘Job-security lies within Yourself-not with any Employer’.

4. 4 The 21 st Century ‘World- of-Work’. The triumph of the 20 th century includes the ever-increasing advances in technological innovation, health care, world-wide communications, and political democracy. The Tragedy of the 20 th century is the ever- widening gap between the rich and poor nations, the growing disconnect between the normal and monetary economies, and mass- unemployment/poverty as a way of life.

5. 5 (Mis)-Education for (Un)-Employment

6. 6 Will, Work, ‘Money-Creation’ not ‘Poverty-Alleviation  Nothing of real Value, is ever Achieved, Without and Indomitable ‘Will’

7. 7 Think ‘Wealth-Creation’ – not ‘Poverty-Alleviation’  The engine of a prosperious economy lies in the Private Sector and a Sustainable Middle Class. Without these – the economy will be forever locked into an isolated ‘elite’ Rich Class embedded within a sea of ‘mass’ Poverty.

8. 8 Workeracy TM: Lifelong (L) – ‘earning-a-living’

9. 9 WORKERACY TM: A ’12-step’ National Strategy for Unemployment  The Pedagogy for teaching workeracy principles for students in the classroom clearly has to be different to that for teaching the chronically unemployed who are both ‘out-of-the-classroom’ and ‘out’-of-the-workplace

10. 10 Summary The Nigerian economy is contrasted against other world economies in the introduction and found to be very small on the world scale i. e. 50% of that of South Africa and only 1% of that of the US. The implementation strategy for the concept of ‘workeracy TM, at a National level is discussed in section 7 by means of a 12-step ‘WORKERACTY TM, process.