ABSTRACT The Ghana Commercial Bank Limited (GCB, LTD) embarked on a computerization drive in 1990 to enhance its business processes and its service delivery. The exercise resulted in the introduction of a centralized banking software (Flex cube) by I-flex Solutions Limited, India. A training programme was organized prior to and after the deployment of the software to equip staff in its use. The study assessed the Flex cube training programme organized for the networked branches of the bank i...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to assess the constructional quality offree school uniforms supplied by Government of Ghana to basic school pupils. The study was a descriptive survey carried out at the West Akyem Municipal Assembly. The population studied comprised Free School Uniform (FSU) beneficiaries for the 2013/2014 academic year. Purposive and disproportionate stratified sampling techniques were utilized to select 419 respondents which comprised of manufacturers, headteachers/t...
ABSTRACT The study examines the antecedence of inflation, most especially the effect of money supply growth, interest rate and real depreciation of the cedi on inflation in Ghana using annual time series data from 1990 to 2016. An Autoregressive Distributed Lag model was adopted as the estimation technique to examine the long-run and short-run dynamics among the variables used. In the long run, the regression estimates indicated that there is an insignificant positive effect between money sup...
ABSTRACT In 1998, Anglogold Ashanti limited set up the Management Training Centre (MTC) to train and develop its human resources to possess the right knowledge, skills and attitudes to meet current and future job demands. Hundreds of employees had undergone diverse programmes since its inception. However, no empirical work has been done to assess the effectiveness of the services provided by the centre. There was, therefore, the need to carry out a study on how the company trains and develop...
ABSTRACT The main objective of this study is to examine the effect of tax policy on growth of small and medium scale businesses. The study was carried out in the New Juaben municipality of the Eastern region of Ghana. In this study the researcher used questionnaires and interviews to collect data from the sample size of 200 out of 400 owners and managers of small and medium scale businesses. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were adapted to analyse data. The data collected was screen...
ABSTRACT The study examines the effect of capital inflow variables on financial development in Ghana. Annual data on foreign direct investment and external debt was extracted from the World Bank World Development Indicators from 1970 to 2014 while data on domestic access to credit by the private sector and remittance inflows was extracted from the Global Financial Development Dataset from 1970 to 2014. Data was analysed by using the descriptive, causal and the Johansen and Juselius (1990) mu...
ABSTRACT Solid waste managementis one of the major issues facing most countries globally. Solid waste was already a problem long before water and air pollution issues attracted public attention. Solid waste managementrepresents a major economic and environmental issue throughout the world. Governments have adopted public private partnership (PPP) as a solution for solid waste management because of the herculean nature of the waste management task in terms of finance and technical expertise....
ABSTRACT Managing post-disaster recovery is a critical stage in the disaster management process to ensure successful restoration of the damage caused to victims. The study assessed the management of post fire disaster recovery among market fire victims in Ghana, using Makola, Kantamanto and Kumasi Central Markets as cases. A mixed-methods research design was adopted. A total of 400 respondents were sampled from a population of 12,945. Interview schedule and interview guides were used to gath...
ABSTRACT A number of studies have been conducted regarding workload and have established some correlation between workload and health worker outcomes. The present study sort to examine the relationship between clinical workload and health worker (nurses, midwives and doctors) performance at the Ridge Hospital, using quality of output as indicator for performance. Specifically, the study sort to examine workload levels, examine factors influencing workload and test the relationship between cl...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the level of financial literacy among business owners within the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly. It also identified the factors affecting the level of financial literacy among small and medium businesses. Questionnaires were developed and administered to 100 selected business owners within the study area. Multiple Regression analysis was performed to test for the relationship between factors that affects people’s financial literacy. Results indicate that maj...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to explore or find out the challenges foster students encounter in a bid to achieve satisfactory basic education.The descriptive cross sectional design was used. The target population for the study was 689 foster students and 2,689 non foster students. A sample of 210 respondents was selected from foster and non - foster students using the simple random sampling technique. Questionnaires were used to gather the data on the variables selected for the stu...
ABSTRACT This study was purposed to investigate the effect of leadership behaviors on employee performance. Specifically, the study identified the leadership behaviors exhibited by managers in Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited (GGBL) in enhancing employee performance and specific behaviors that affected the performance of the employees. The study was conducted with the effect of three main leadership behaviors in mind, namely, job-centeredness style, people centeredness style and democratic ...
ABSTRACT Knowledge management have gained much prominence in recent years and is said to improve organizational performance. However, the effects of knowledge management practices on employees performance are not well known especially in the case of telecommunication companies in Kumasi, Ghana. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of knowledge management practices on performance of employees of telecommunication companies in Kumasi, Ghana. This was a case study in which data...
Abstract This study set out to investigate the relationship between breastfeeding and the nutritional status of children in Ghana. This stems from the fact that in spite of conflicting research findings on the benefits of prolonged breastfeeding, there is intensive breastfeeding compaign going on in the country. The 1998 GDHS data set was used in this study. Specifically, data on breastfeeding and other child feeding practices, childhood illnesses and anthropometry as well as some backgr...
The importance of credit demand cannot be overemphasised given its potential positive influence on individuals’ livelihood and economic growth of countries. In spite of the financial sector liberalisation in Ghana, some individuals still face financial constraints which make it difficult to cover up their spending gap. This paper investigates whether individuals’ socio-demographic and economic characteristics are important in loan demand. A simple random sampling technique was used to sel...