ABSTRACT Companies are increasingly looking to employ the best talents to keep up in a rapidly changing business environment and to drive their strategies to achieve long-term growth. As a result of the high cost of recruiting from the mature and already existing labour pool to meet this need, many companies are reaching into the graduate employment market to recruit high potential fresh talent that can be groomed to occupy key positions. As the graduate employment market becomes more and mo...
ABSTRACT Family businesses, many of which fall within the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), are the center of growth in developing countriessuch as Ghana as they contribute significantly to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), promote employment opportunities and serve as a means of alleviating poverty. Despite being the center of growth in developing countries, most family businesses rarely have a successful transition from one generation to the next. Majority of research done on family busi...
ABSTRACT Over the past ten years, the number of foreign banks in Ghana seems to be increasing at a very fast pace and it appears this will not slow down anytime soon. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of foreign bank presence on local banks and banking innovation. The study was exploratory in nature and employed primary data to draw its conclusions. Purposive sampling methods such as expert sampling and snowballing were used to identify the participants of the research. T...
ABSTRACT Organizational stress continues to be a problem in many companies worldwide. This study examined organizational stress and its related costs to employers. Organizational stress was defined as the response from individuals when presented with tasks beyond their ability at work and the cost is that which employers incur in managing stress and as a result of the presence of stress itself. To aid the study, the works of Hoel et al. (2001), Brun (2006) and Tangri (2003) were addressed in ...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Akroma Plaza Hotel has had to step up its service delivery efforts to be able to adequately deliver on its core mandate of service delivery as a hospitality establishment. The purpose of this project is to aid the hotel in the provision of unparalleled service delivery in the face of increasing customer expectations by proposing a structured employee training and development strategy. Ghana’s hospitality industry has been described as one of the major emerging markets in A...
ABSTRACT Emels Ghana Ltd is a start-up all-naturals cosmetic retail store which seeks to provide clients with organic cosmetic products aimed at providing the skin and hair the essential nutrients to promote growth. The purpose of this project is to aid Emels generate a simple and efficient inventory management system that would help solve its ineffective and complicated method of tracking inventory. This problem was deduced from constant interactions with the owners, who indicated that despi...
ABSTRACT Ghana’s government places a lot of emphasis on promoting goods produced in the country as a method of moving its country towards the goal of being an industrialized economy. Efforts made to promote the use and purchase of goods produced in Ghana include the launch of the made-in-Ghana campaign and logo in 2014 by the country’s Trade Ministry. Even though the government has made several attempts to promote the use and purchase of made-in-Ghana goods, research shows that most of th...
ABSTRACT Economists believe that human capital is necessary for development. This has resulted in a focus on the expansion of not just tertiary and secondary education, but also vocational education, and the use of manpower planning, as far as the Asian tigers are concerned (Taiwan, Republic of Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore) (Harris, 1996). Taking a cue from successful outcomes in Asia, this study therefore sought to find out how technical and vocational education has impacted youth unemploy...
Executive Summary At Heart Beauty Care Concepts is a hair and beauty care salon located in Santa Maria, Accra. A sole proprietorship business, the salon offers services of hairdressing, interior decoration, makeup, pedicure and manicure, among others. The vision of the business is to be a beauty hub that showcases the excellence of hair and beauty care and thrives on the mission of delivering such excellent services and producing professionals to do same. Assessing the need in the business to...
ABTRACT Agriculture’s impact in Africa has led to the conclusion that it is the lifeblood of many Africa economies. In Ghana, agriculture was historically the dominant sector of the real economy accounting for more than 30 percent of GDP post-independence although more recently, it has declined sharply and is the smallest sector of the economy as at 2016. Despite that, the sector still plays a key role in Ghana’s economy and employs 44.7 percent of the population above15 years. The contin...
Abstract This study sought to measure the level of priority or focus given to the study of Pan Africanism among undergraduate students. Students selected for this research paper were from the University of Ghana and Ashesi University College. A lecturer was interviewed to find out about the relevance of the study of Pan Africanism in modern Africa. Students from the history department of the University of Ghana were given questionnaires to fill. The questionnaires aimed at finding out if they...
ABSTRACT This study aimed to collate and analyze the views of students and graduates of Ashesi University, a top African university, on the relevant factors which significantly influence their academic performance. The research was motivated by the desire of some university officials to identify the specific aspects of Ashesi’s “modified liberal arts model” which most significantly impact students’ academic performance and enable them to do so well in the job market. The questions thi...
ABSTRACT This paper focuses on studying the relationship between company size and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) in manufacturing companies in Ghana. The study sought to establish the relationship between company size and the decision to outsource in manufacturing companies in Ghana and also to assess the extent to which manufacturing companies are outsourcing and which main functions are outsourced. By definition, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is a managerial practice which essentia...
ABSTRACT To get the best out of employees in the banking industry, pressure is increasingly put on them to perform for sustainable growth leading to work-family life imbalance and consequent stress related issues. The purpose of this study therefore, is to explore issues related to work-family life balance among banking professionals in Ghana. It compares the experiences of bankers in two banks in Takoradi in the Western region of Ghana, to understand in-depth the factors that enable them to ...
ABSTRACT Real estate in Ghana has also undergone tremendous change largely to economic stability and government‟s support of foreign investments. Over the past decade, the office property market in Accra has grown steadily averaging an annual 14 percent of GDP since 2010 (Setrana, 2013). This increase in demand has led to several developments being undertaken in Accra (Ghana Prime Properties, 2013). However, this paper focuses on the office property market in Airport City and uses Porters F...