ABSTRACT Improving maternal healthcare remains a major public health concern globally but particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Ghana, maternal mortality continues to be pervasive and improvements have been rather slow. Investing in supervised and emergency obstetric care resources has been touted as one major strategy to avoiding preventable maternal deaths. The clustering of mortality around delivery, and the dominance of hemorrhage, infections, and hypertensive disorders as major causes o...
ABSTRACT The central objective of this study is to assess the effect of capital structure on performance of OMCs in Ghana. The data sample consists of six oil marketing companies that have been in continuous existence from 2010-2015. The study employed panel regression models to examine the relationship between capital structure and performance of OMCs in Ghana. The results of this study show that the analysis of leverage and firm performance relationship produces mixed outturns. The leverage...
ABSTRACT The study examined the relationship between three dimensions of safety climate (management commitment to safety, priority of safety at the hospital, and pressure for health service delivery), and their impact on safety behaviour reported by employees. The study sought to examine if pressure for health service delivery affects the safety behaviour of healthcare workers. Using a quantitative approach, questionnaires were administered to a sample of 295 employees from two teaching hospi...
ABSTRACT This study examines the influence of entrepreneurial orientation on the growth of SMEs in Ghana’s food processing sector. The importance of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to the well well-being of an economy cannot be overemphasized. Many studies have been undertaken, both in developed and developing countries to indicate the major developmental role that SMEs play in an economy. However, despite their acknowledged contributions to the economy and series of interventions by go...
ABSTRACT In Ghana as in many developing countries, the quest to provide quality professional health care for patients in the hospital is confronted with many challenges. However, the challenges are evidently articulated in the ward where all the medical challenges coalesce. In Ghana, beside other medical challenges, shortage of professional staff is a great barrier to providing quality patient care. The desire to fill this professional lacuna has, by default, resulted in the use of lay caregi...
ABSTRACT Smuggling is one ofthe major factors undermining the economy of Nigeria. This behaviour is aided partly by the multi-border nature of the country with niultiple entry and exit points (legal and illegal). The country shares land borders with Cameroon, Benin Republic, Republic of Togo, Chad and marine border with Equitorial Guinea. In a bid to stem the tide of smuggling, successive governments in Nigeria have put up a number of measures and legislation in addition to empowering the Ni...
ABSTRACT This study examined the influence of social support and resilience on work-family conflict among Ghanaian women in the formal and informal sectors of work. Data was collected from 294 participants using standardised questionnaires. Five hypotheses were tested in the study using the two-way ANOVA and Standard Multiple regression tests. The results of the study showed that, sector of work significantly correlated to work-family conflict, with women in the formal sector experiencing hig...
ABSTRACT Many studies in value co-creation and its outcomes predominantly conducted in developed economies and their findings may not necessarily be applicable in developing economies due to disparities in culture and economic situations. There is therefore the need to probe further in developing economy such as Ghana in order to attain better understanding empirically, the influence of value co-creation behaviour on the relationship between cognitive engagement and customer loyalty. The purp...
ABSTRACT Social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube have become important sources of information. However, the dynamics between the volume of information on social media and the quality of choices consumers make remain unclear in literature. While some social media users complain of choice overload affecting the quality of choices and post purchase dissonance, others believe that information on social media is of quality and sufficient for effective decision making. T...
ABSTRACT Before the adoption of IFRS among firms, every country had its own reporting accounting standards which brought about challenges when it comes to comparing financial statements from different countries. The move of business into the global economy has brought a lot of difficulties in comparability, reliability and objectivity; this has therefore increased the need to move accounting standards into globalization. The study was conducted to know whether companies listed on Ghana stock ...
ABSTRACT The study investigates the relationship between knowledge of the three-tier pension scheme and retirement planning. Using the cross sectional survey method, 196 participants made up of 102 males and 94 females were sampled from six organisations. Participants were administered with the Retirement Planning Scale, Knowledge of the three-tier pension Scheme questionnaire and the Financial Literacy Questionnaire. The result using Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient indicates t...
ABSTRACT The strength of democracy is reflected in the “expressions of mass demands for better social safety nets especially in the sectors of health and education services. However, for mass demands to be translated into policy, there need to be an opportunity that numbers can mobilize, and that mobilization counts politically. The strength and quality of democracy makes it possible for civil society, popular organizations and political parties to emerge and consolidate as organizations th...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to use the health belief model in social marketing to influence behaviour change towards cholera prevention from the context of a developing country, specifically Ghana. Research into cholera prevention has focused predominantly on the issues surrounding effective sanitation, improvement in potable drinking water and use of oral dehydration. Therefore, little attention in literature has been paid to understand the behavioural aspects of individuals in co...
ABSTRACT The competitive and unpredictable nature of today’s business environment is increasingly making organizations expect more from their employees. There are consistent research findings that Job Demands (JD), Psychological Contract Breach (PCB) and Emotional Exhaustion (EE) are on the rise in organizations. Though it is hard to believe that the concurrent rise in these three factors is mere coincidence, the possible links that exist between these factors seem to have eluded research a...
ABSTRACT For a nation to grow faster, it must direct its oil revenue on pro-poor investment. It must be noted also that, reforms in the health and educational sectors are cornerstones of a nation. This means that investment in health and education is so important that a country should dedicate its natural resource revenue towards these sectors. The emphasis on investment in health and education cannot be taken for granted. As a result, this study empirically examines the influence of natural ...