ABSTRACT The study examined the training and its challenges to hospital employees under the Ghana Health Service of the Trauma Hospital at Winneba in the Central Region. The case study research design was adopted for the study. Through the use of census sampling and the simple random sampling procedures 60 hospital employees were selected to participate in the study. The questionnaire was used to gather the requisite data for the study. The data were analyzed through the computation of desc...
ABSTRACT The Auditor General of Ghana’s reports on the public accounts of Ghana takes a direction of consistently reporting of malpractices. The role of internal auditors in preventing these occurrences constantly comes into the spotlight. Other researchers found that internal auditors devoted less time to productive activities. The study therefore sought to evaluate the quality of internal audit in the quasi-public sector institutions in preventing mass financial malpractices. Specific at...
ABSTRACT The study set out to evaluate the staff development and training policy of the Bank of Ghana. A descriptive and cross-sectional survey was adopted to study 47 employees of the Tamale Branch of Bank of Ghana. The categories of staff studied covered employees from Banking, Issue, Research, General Service, and Administration. These groups comprised the sources of primary data for the study. The completed questionnaires were subjected to reliability test using SPSS version 16. Frequenc...
ABSTRACT Employee turnover has been one high-handed problem that the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice has been grappling with. This problem affected all calibre of staff, thereby giving rise to staff shortages, resulting in the overburdening of the remaining staff and poor work delivery. The study set out to examine the causes of employee turnover, its effects on the operational mandates of the CHRAJ and to explore opportunities for attaining staff retention in the CHRAJ....
ABSTRACT The general objective of the study was to explore the savings and investment behaviour of rural families in the Ho Municipality of Ghana. The study was conducted using 160 rural households in four rural communities in the Ho Municipality. Interviews were used to collect data from the sampled families. Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient, chi-square and percentages were used to analyse the data collected. It was found that the savings and investment among rural families...
ABSTRACT The financial development of many Sub-Saharan African countries over the years has not been able to match up with other regions like the Middle East and North Africa, East Asia and Pacific, and Europe and central Asia (IMF, 2016). Trade openness has been argued in several empirical literature as a factor that could spur up the level of financial development, although the high levels of trade openness in Sub-Saharan Africa is not contributing much to the desired levels of financial de...
ABSTRACT This study sought to address the determinants of work-family conflict among female teachers and how it affects their job satisfaction. The specific objectives of the study were to identify the determinants of work-family conflict; assess the differences between work-family conflict among married and unmarried female teachers; and examine the effect of work-family conflict on satisfaction of female teachers. A total of 250 respondents were used for the study. The lottery method of th...
ABSTRACT The study was conducted to assess the effect of procurement practices on performance of private universities in Greater Accra. The study employed a descriptive survey research design and was supported by the quantitative research approach. The population included some 250 procurement officers and procurement heads of all the 43 accredited private universities in Greater Accra Region. Descriptive statistics (Mean, standard deviation, frequency and percentages) and inferential statisti...
ABSTRACT The study examined the effect of public expenditure on unemployment in Ghana using annual data for the period 1980 to 2016 by employing Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach to cointegration. The study revealed that there is an inverse relationship between government consumption expenditure and unemployment rate. However, government capital expenditure and unemployment rate were found to be positively related. The study therefore established that the threshold of government...
ABSTRACT The paper aims to examine the impact of credit risk on the profitability of credit unions in Ghana. The specific objectives are: to examine the methods of measuring credit risk, examine the factors that influence credit standards of credit union, examine the relationship between credit risk and profitability and to assess the credit risk management strategies adopted by credit unions in Ghana. The research design adopted by the study was a descriptive research design. A sample size o...
ABSTRACT This dissertation focuses on the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) practices in the University of Cape Coast. The aim is to examine the OHS practices and to determine, the extent to which, the University had adhered to requirements of legislation governing occupational health and safety, assess the level of employee awareness of hazardous conditions associated with their work and make recommendations based on the findings to improve occupational health and safety practices. The s...
ABSTRACT The Current Account Balance (CAB) of Sub-Sahara African (SSA) countries is characterised by persistent deficits, averaging -7.3%, -3.4%, and -2.4% as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product in 1981, 1995 and 2009, respectively. While there is a growing body of empirical literature on the determinants (focusing specifically on Real Exchange Rate (RER), external debt, Terms of Trade (TOT), among others) of deficit in the CAB, little attention has been devoted to the role of fiscal poli...
ABSTRACT The adoption of community policing-oriented strategy in Nigeria in 2004 has led to a shift in police training focus and curriculum contents. Studies on community policing-oriented training have largely been general in nature without paying much attention to the training content, competence of trainers and post-training challenges. This study therefore, assessed the perceived influence of community policing-oriented training on police interactions with the public in crime prevention ...
ABSTRACT The average international tourists arrival per thousand populations for the period 2000 to 2009 was 7 in Nigeria compared to 22 in Ghana. The major sources of these receipts were business tourists from France, United Kingdom and United State of America. Government efforts at increasing international tourism demand as an alternative source of non-oil revenue is yet to boost the country’s tourist arrivals. Previous studies have investigated the economic potential of Nigeria’s tour...
Abstract The second West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ), comprising The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, was initiated in 1999 to fast-track the common monetary policy objective of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). However, uncertainties about the economic implications of the policy have been major obstacles to regional integration. Economists and policymakers are yet to agree on the potential costs and benefits of a common currency. Available empirical st...