ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to investigate the management of work place - related stress: the case of the Division of Human Resource Management Unit of UEW, Winneba. A sample of forty-five (45) participants was chosen for the study through simple random technique and purposive sampling techniques. Among others, it was found that: staff of the Human Resource Division of the University of Education, Winneba experience stress as a result of doing so many things within a limit...
ABSTRACT The study was conducted with the broad objective of finding out the relationship between employee’s health and safety and performance using Kintampo-North Municipal Hospital as study area. Relevant literature on health and safety were reviewed. Questionnaire was the main tool for data collection. Data was analysed using descriptive statistics. Proportions were used to summarise variables that were categorical in nature. The dependent variable in this study was binary in nature, the...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between recruitment and selection process on level of work performance at Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA). There was the need to conduct this study because not much empirically documented works on effectiveness of recruitment and selection process have been done. The researcher considered 120 staff as sample from the three divisions in Ghana Revenue Authority. The sampling design adopted for the study was constant strati...
ABSTRACT The study examined the effects of poverty on maternal and child health in the Tamale Metropolis with regard to access to information and quality service provision and utilization. Six research questions were formulated to guide the direction of the study. The study was a descriptive one and involved 320 health service recipients and 80 health service providers who were selected through the stratified and purposive sampling techniques respectively The study found that poverty in the T...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to assess human resource planning on organisational behaviour and performance, using the Ghana Education Service as case study. The researcher used descriptive research design for the study. The objectives of the study were to establish the relationship between human resource planning and organisational performance, to identify the strategies use to improve human resource planning and to assess the challenges faced by an organisation in human resour...
ABSTRACT Over the past decade, there have been various efforts by the Central as well as Local governments in Ghana to ensure that effective systems are in place to manage waste generated in the country. Despite these efforts, waste management in the country still leaves a lot to be desired. The case of Mankessim Township in the Mfantseman Municipal Assembly is not different. This therefore raises questions about effectiveness of these efforts, requiring an assessment of current municipal sol...
ABSTRACT Small and Medium-sized Enterprises constitute the majority of business ventures and significantly contribute to the employment and economic liberation of both developed and developing economies. Notwithstanding the huge contribution of SMEs to countries' economic development, they are faced with challenges of high tax rates, unfavourable tax policies that tend to affect their profits adversely and high tax compliance costs that accompany the filing of tax returns to revenue authorit...
ABSTRACT To ensure its democratic governance, Ghana has established the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) in particular to promote and protect human rights and freedoms and administrative justice. There is not enough comprehensive literature from studies on the effect of a national human rights institution like the CHRAJ on the development of a culture of human rights and its impact on promotion of good governance. Non-interventional and descriptive study design w...
ABSTRACT The study examined how students perceive their participation in decisionmaking processes in Wesley College of Education in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. In all, one hundred and ninety-two student leaders, fifty-five teachers and three college administrators were purposively sampled for the study. The main research instrument for the study was the questionnaire. Three sets of questionnaire were designed for respondents. The findings of the study suggest among others, that st...
ABSTRACT The study examined the relationship between electricity consumption and economic growth in Ghana using annual data for the period 1971 to 2010 by employing autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach to cointegration. The study found a cointegrating relationship among the variables when real GDP was used as the dependent variable and no cointegrating relationship among the variables when electricity consumption was used as the dependent variable. The bounds test results revealed ...
ABSTRACT The dissertation, which was a cross-sectional descriptive survey, aimed at investigating the causes and effects of political violence in Berekum Municipality. The study was informed by deepening intensity with which violence germinates and multiples before, during and after presidential and parliamentary electioneering campaigns in the Municipality A sample of 226 respondents made up of 84 party members and 142 members of the public were selected for the study. The sample also consi...
ABSTRACT Advertising has become a powerful marketing tool in increasingly competitive business environment. This study explored the effect(s) of advertising strategies on sales performance of Lacdan Roofing Company in Kumasi, Ghana. Three constructs measuring advertising strategies including informative, persuasive and reminder advertisements were employed in this study. There were two objectives of the study. The first objective was to determine the effectiveness of advertising tactics emplo...
ABSTRACT The study followed the procedures of a descriptive analysis. It described how a private company appraised the performance of its workers. Among the objectives were the description of a model performance appraisal system, the description of the appraisal system of First Allied Savings & Loans Ltd, the analysis ofthe weaknesses thereof and suggestions to improve upon the appraisal system ofthe company. To achieve the objectives aforementioned, questionnaires were designed to gather rel...
ABSTRACT Group behaviour has both positive and negative effect on the overall performance of an organisation. These effects have not been considered by various consultants who were engaged to come out with remedies to the challenges confronting Ghana Railway Company Limited. It is in view of this that, this descriptive investigation into the effects of group behaviour on the overall performance of the Ghana Railway Company Limited was conducted using Takoradi (i.e the headquarters) as a case...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to examine the VAT flat rate scheme for retail businesses in Cape Coast Metropolis. Specifically, the study focused on the VAT flat rate scheme on sales of retail products. Again, the study dealt with the level of VAT flat rate compliance by the retailers. The study further identified the major challenges faced by both the retailers and the service in the implementation and the administration of the scheme in the Cape Coast Metropolis. The descriptive su...