ABSTRACT The study examined the relationship between financial literacy and personal savings among individuals in Adeiso. The study used descriptive design in the quantitative approach. Stratified sampling technique was used to select 300 respondents (nurses, teachers and SME operators) in Adeiso of which questionnaires were administered to them. Furthermore, the data was analyzed with the help of statistical software known as Statistical Product for Service Solution (SPSS version 21.0) and i...
ABSTRACT The study examined the role of traditional authorities in ethnic conflict management and resolution in the East Gonja and Kpandai districts in the Northern Region of Ghana. Case study research design was employed for the study. The study population included chiefs, opinion leaders, youth leaders, governmental and non-governmental agencies interested in peace building and development in the two districts. Purposive sampling technique was employed to sample 28 respondents for the study...
ABSTRACT In the 21st century, retirement planning is an evitable aspect of employees’ financial decisions. Employees who are financially literate have been found to have healthy lives during retirement while financially illiterate employees struggle to survive during that period. It is in this light that, the study examined the effect of financial literacy on retirement planning among employees at Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCO). The study employed the quantitative approach and causal research ...
ABSTRACT Some literature of health insurance indicate that it is a private or public system of protection against the losses owing to medical expenses, or a method of providing for members of a defined group or community with protection against the cost of medical care. The national health insurance scheme has been identified as the more humane, efficient and sustainable means of financing healthcare in low-income countries, especially where a large percentage of the population are in the inf...
ABSTRACT The study investigates the relationship between exchange rate volatility and economic growth in Ghana using quarterly data from 1990 to 2012, by means of the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach and the Granger causality test. The study found a unique cointegrating relationship between economic growth and exchange rate volatility. The regression results show that exchange rate volatility exerts negative and statistically significant effects on economic growth both in the sh...
ABSTRACT Human resource makes tremendous contributions toward the success of every organisation. As such, managing human resource performance is currently one of the key activities undertaken by heads or authorities of these institutions. This can largely be achieved through the implementation of performance management system which ensures constant evaluation and improvement in employee performance. The study examined the effect of performance management system on employee performance at La D...
ABSTRACT Small and Medium Scale Enterprises offer immense contribution to the economic development of Twifo Hemang Lower Denkyira District and Ghana as a whole. The dominance of small and medium scale enterprises in Twifo Hemang Lower Denkyira District and in Ghana as a whole is as result of minimum capital requirement, easy formation, use of indigenous raw materials, localized operation, less gestation period and most above all profit motives. It is anticipated when proper financial managem...
ABSTRACT The main aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness and efficiency of tax management using the Ghana Revenue Authority Asokwa office as a study area. The study was descriptive in nature and employed the quantitative method in data collection and analysis. The study population was Two Hundred (200) made up of the staff and management members of Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) at the Asokwa office in Kumasi. The researcher also adopted the stratified random sampling to select...
ABSTRACT The mobile telephony industry in Ghana has in recent times increasingly employed corporate sponsorship as a marketing tool. This study sought to find out the effectiveness of using corporate sponsorship as a marketing tool. The study made use of both primary data and secondary data. Two classes of respondents were used in this study: respondents from the mobile telecommunication companies (sponsors) and the beneficiaries of the sponsorship packages (sponsees). The two main data coll...
ABSTRACT This multivariate study examines the relationships among parental status, parental level of education, class size, location of school parental involvement, teacher effectiveness, academic motivation and academic self-concept on pupils’ academic performance. The research design for the study was a sequential explanatory with mixed methods approach. Stratified, simple random and purposive samplings were used to sample 324 pupils from the population for both quantitative and qualitat...
ABSTRACT The study measured the impact of rewards and compensation on employees’ performance within the Ghana Education Service. Specifically, the objectives of the study were to identify the rewards and compensation practices implemented within the Ghana Education Service, to assess the impact of intrinsic rewards on employees’ performance and finally to investigate the impact of extrinsic rewards on employees’ performance. This study was positioned within the positivism worldvi...
ABSTRACT Wildlife is an important socio-cultural and economic resource in West and Central Africa. The declining wildlife population in the recent time is as a result of a combination of factors, namely, increased access and demand for wildlife resources by rural and urban dwellers, population growth, improved hunting technology and lack of protein alternatives in many households.. This paper investigates the contribution of bush meat extraction to household’s livelihood (income, health, n...
ABSTRACT With limited evidence of decreases in malaria-related mortality and morbidity, and nearly half the time to the 2010 deadline of Roll Back Malaria (RBM)targets now past, we conducted this study to assess the awareness, accessibility and use of malaria control strategies among at-risk groups within the context of RBM in Nigeria. It was a descriptive, cross-sectional pilot study of 34 registered women attending antenatal clinics and 34 mothers of children less than five years old, using...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the perception of HIV/AIDS risk and sexual risk behaviours among youths with disabilities (WD) in comparison with youths without disabilities (comparison group)' The study adopted a cross-sectional survey with 362 participants comprising 181 WD with visual impaired 29(161o), physically challenged 40 (22.1Vo) and hearing impaired 112 (61'9Va) and comparison group (N = 181). A 9-item structured questionnaire was used for data collection' The instrument was revali...
ABSTRACT Job involvement and employee turnover have been implicated in many studies as serious challenges for organisational management. Although, several factors have been empirically linked with these variables, the role of personal values and perceived job characteristics has not been studied in-depth among workers in Anambra State. This study, therefore, examined the influence of personal values and perceived job characteristics on job involvement and turnover intention among workers in ...