ABSTRACT Many firms experience fundamental organizational restructuring which can affect the welfare of employees. In spite of the number of studies endorsing the negative influence of organizational restructuring on employee’s well-being, little is known in Ghana. Using Denmark embassy as a case, the study explored how organizational restructuring induces job stress. This study specifically examines factors that induce stress at Denmark embassy in Ghana. Using a logit model, the study foun...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the fricatives of Asante, Bono and Denkyira with the aim of establishing the acoustic properties of the fricatives. Three fricatives [f], [s] and [ç] of Asante, Bono and Denkyira were examined in [a, ɛ, ɪ] vowel contexts. Fifteen (15) male and fifteen (15) female speakers between the ages of 20-35 years were recruited for the study. All the fricative consonants were within the scope of prevocalic and intervocalic using CV and CVC syllables respectively. T...
ABSTRACT The study examined customer perception of service delivery by the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) in the Cape Coast District in the Central Region of Ghana. The descriptive design was adopted for the study and convenience sampling technique was used to sample 120 respondents for the study. Self-administered questionnaire was used for data collection. The descriptive statistics was used to analyze the data including means, standard deviations, frequencies and percentages. Bivariate...
ABSTRACT The study was aimed at finding out the perceptions about community participation in project initiation, project planning and designing and project implementation, monitoring and evaluation. It also seeks to find out the socioeconomic impact or effects of world vision’s poverty reduction interventions in the Assin North District of Ghana. The study was conducted in four major local communities within the Assin North Districts namely: Assin Endwa, Assin Akropong, Assin Wurakesi and A...
ABSTRACT The emergence of new contaminants, owing to the persistently high levels of water pollution, has rendered most conventional water purification techniques inadequate and/or relatively costly. In this study, a simple, effective and affordable prototype membrane filter was fabricated, with the use of Comsol Multiphysics simulations. These simulations were used in the real-time prediction of the water-retention and lifetime of the fabricated membrane. The river and hand-dug well water sa...
ABSTRACT The study assessed organisational performance in Ghanaian public sector especially ISD with specific reference to Cape Coast.The study used descriptive survey as its design and used the census method to select all 18 staffs for regional and metropolitan offices in Cape Coast as the sample size for the study. The researcher employed a self-administered questionnaire to collect data for the study which helped to produce 100% retrieval rate. The questionnairewasmade up of 22 items. The ...
ABSTRACT The financial systems of the 21st Century have been growing with speed, sophistication and becoming more complex world over. Per this, the economic and social environment in which people take financial decisions has also changed drastically. This has increased individual employees’ responsibility in managing their own finances and securing their financial freedom. The study examined the relationship between financial literacy and retirement planning of employees in Ghana Immigratio...
ABSTRACT With advancements in technology and the complex systems of high rise buildings, the trend of fire outbreaks in buildings is increasing worldwide, including developing countries like Ghana. This requires public awareness and information to ensure the safety of owners or occupiers of such premises. Fire incidences are anticipated at the University of Ghana which accommodates a number of different facility users. This study was conducted to find out the knowledge and impressions ...
ABSTRACT One of the highlights of the twentieth century was the promulgation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the newly formed United Nations in 1948. Since this step was taken, however, the concept of human rights has become the topic of much debate. Also, current statistics indicate that human right violations are more frequent now than they were, prior to the world wars. To ensure that the UDHR achieves its aim of protecting human dignity, philosophers and other schol...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to examine how organisational culture and leadership styles can affect employee commitment in the public organisations using Ghana Prison Service (GPS), Central Region as a case study. The study adopted the descriptive survey design. The sample size for the study was 112, made up of 34 junior officers, 22 senior officers, and 56 non-commission officers of the GPS. The stratified sampling technique that makes use of the lottery method of simple random samp...
ABSTRACT In this study, we translated two documents, one from French into English which is termed as ‘version’and the other from English into French which is termed as ‘thème.’ The transaltions were followed by an analysis of the two passages. Language and community, the English passage translated into French concerns certain Ghanaian languages. It was written by Prof. M. E Kropp Dakubu of the University of Ghana, Legon and it is his inaugural lecture. The French passage translated i...
ABSTRACT The concept of reward system in an organisation is important in motivating employees with the view of achieving the best and improved organisational performance. Most organisations often fail to assess how the organisational outputs are directly or indirectly affected by how employees are perceived, treated and how they feel about themselves within the organisational settings. It is in recognition of these facts that this research was undertaken to assess the effects of reward system...
ABSTRACT This study examines the levels of acceptability of some lexical forms and grammatical features identified in the literature as Ghanaian English. It also discusses the recognised or acceptable indexical markers of the variety. The study explains the phenomenon of acceptability through Schneider’s (2007) Dynamic Model of Postcolonial Englishes. Employing both qualitative and quantitative methods, the researcher sampled 400 respondents for a survey and 20 participants for interviews. ...
ABSTRACT Unlike Small and Medium−Sized Enterprises (SMEs), large enterprises have continued enjoying the benefits of the use of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs). This is one situation that has affected SMEs development including those in the Birim Central Municipality. It was based on this rationale that a study was undertaken mainly to assess ICTs in SMEs activities in the Birim Central Municipality. The specific objectives of the study were to examine the preferred type of IC...
ABSTRACT This study investigated how graduate students in the four Departments of Faculty of Foreign Languages Education and Communication (FFLEC) use new media technologies. The students were purposively sampled from the four Departments in FFLEC and interviewed. The study adopted the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) and Technology Appropriation Model to properly contextualize the research. The graduate students were of the view that the social connection provided...