ABSTRACT The study set out to examine the motivation and attitude towards work among kitchen staff in senior high schools (SHSs) within the Kwawu East District. Specifically, it involved an examination of the motivational needs of the staff, the strategies used to motivate kitchen staff and the factors influencing job attitudes of staff. A cross-sectional design was adopted to survey 42 kitchen staff and seven school Principals. Interview schedules were used to collect data from the kitchen...
ABSTRACT Solid waste management presents challenges to both developed and developing countries the world over. This is partly due to increasing population, expansions in towns or cities, poor town planning and inadequate funding of waste management practices. This study looks at the solid waste management practices in the Wa municipality and its associate problems. It describes the management practices in the study area; it also assesses the management practices in the Wa municipality level...
ABSTRACT Most nations in sub-Saharan Africa, including Ghana, have set out on various change programs including public financial management reforms for advancing effectiveness in the public sector but have been unsuccessful, with implementation being a major obstacle. The main objective of this study is to evaluate the implementation of GIFMIS in Ghana’s public financial management system and to examine the motivation(s) for its development and introduction. Data was gathered from a qualit...
ABSTRACT The role of Credit unions in Ghana cannot be overemphasized. This motivated the researcher to investigate and establish the impact of credit union operations on its members’ development. To achieve this, quantitative approach through the use of explanatory design was adopted. Questionnaires with reliability alpha coefficient of .806 were used to collect responses from selected respondents. The data were analysed with the help of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS v...
ABSTRACT Issues about the environment are no longer just the air we breathe, or the world we live in, it has become a requirement for businesses to address in an ever more critical global economy. This study assessed the corporate environmental management tools used by manufacturing firms in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis to manage the environmental problems associated with their production. Structured Questionnaire was used to obtain data for this study. The lottery method of sampling was ...
ABSTRACT Unobtrusive methods in social research are an interesting aspect of the broader qualitative procedures in social science research which seek answers to questions by examining in non – intrusive manner various social settings and the individuals who inhabit these settings. Qualitative researchers are most interested in the day to day activities of a people, how humans arrange themselves and their settings and how inhabitants of or in a particular location make sense of their surroun...
ABSTRACT Nigeria marked her 50 years of independence in October 2010. More than three decades of this period were under autocratic military rule. The current experiment with democracy, the Fourth Republic, which commenced on 29 May 1999 when retired General Olusegun Obasanjo was swornin as president, is the longest attempt of practicing democratic governance in the history of the country. Indeed, the successful transition from one democratic government to another in 2007 and the peaceful tran...
Abstract West African countries are wealthy countries with abundance of both human and natural resources. Some of its member countries are leading member of the OPEC countries. Surprisingly poverty in West African countries is at an alarming rate. Most of its countries are categorized as underdeveloped countries with highest rate of corruption in the world. It is characterized by very weak economies and very low growth rates. There is prevalence of abject poverty as a result of poor economic...
ABSTRACT The study set out to investigate customers’ assessment of the products and services of Air Liquide Ghana Limited in the light of its present position in a competitive market. A cross-sectional survey was conducted to collect data from a sample of 200 customers out of the 1100 customers in the study area. The results from the study indicate that customers are generally satisfied with the product and service quality of Air Liquide Ghana Limited. Both the desire and expectation di...
ABSTRACT In recent years, customer retention has gained attention among savings and loans service providers. With the increasing competitive environment, firms are continually looking for innovative ways not only to attract customers but to retain existing ones. The main objective of the study is to analyze customer retention strategies at Opportunity International Savings and Loans Limited (OISL). The study revealed that, customer retention strategies used at OISL were consistent with lite...
ABSTRACT The real estate sector is one of the fastest growing sub-sectors in the Ghanaian economy. According to the Ghana Revenue Authority, rent income tax collected from this sector has not been encouraging. This study seeks to determine the factors affecting rent income tax compliance in Tarkwa Nsueam and Sefwi Wiawso Municipalities. The study used quantitative approach. Simple random sampling was used to select 278 property owners as the sample size. Data was collected using a structured...
ABSTRACT This study examined the dispensing outreach programme of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) and its influence on the health status of users. It specifically examined the influence of the organizational structure of NHIS on the referral process in the utilization of health care services by clients, documented the satisfaction client’ derived from NHIS service. It adopted a descriptive survey design through the use of qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection ...
ABSTRACT Research on maternal health was conducted among the residents of the Seme boder community in republic of Benin to determine the available matem1 health care services in the community and the level of accessibility to residents, to find out the pattern of the maternal health seeking behaviour and to examining the relationships between the sociocultural characteristic and maternal health care seeking behaviour in the area. The major instruments used wed structured questionnaire, key in...
ABSTRACT The importance of economic and political institutions to economic growth has been demonstrated in the literature. However, little is known on how such institutions impact on growth and what determine the quality of economic institutions in Africa. Therefore, this study was aimed at examining the impact of economic and political institutions on growth as well as the impact of political transition on the quality of economic institutions. Game theory was used to develop a political ec...
ABSTRACT The study was conducted to find out the factors that affected the recruitment and retention of public senior high school (SHS) teachers in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis. The designs used were the descriptive and noninterventional research designs. Four public senior high schools were involved in the study. The simple random sampling was used to select 112 teachers from the population of teachers in the four schools for the study. The data collection instrument used was the questio...