ABSTRACT The study aimed at assessing the impact of career development on employee engagement at Women‘s World Bank, Kumasi. The study used descriptive survey research and a census of 266 employees. The research approach used was the quantitative approach and Questionnaire was the main data collection instrument used to collect data from the field survey. The data for this study was processed with SPSS (V 22) and analysed with regression and correlational analysis, means and standard devia...
ABSTRACT With the increased concentration on the corporate social responsibility (CSR), companies are not only required to focus narrowly on generating profit for shareholders, but also asked to take responsibilities for firms’ other stakeholders, e.g. customers, employees, society etc., from social, environment and economic perspectives. Hence, nowadays, having both a decent CSR performance and adding profitability are the significant aspects for the company to achieve the sustainable suc...
ABSTRACT The study was to find out the perception of public junior high school teachers in Berekum Municipality on the performance appraisal system in Ghana Education Service (GES).The evaluative research design was used in the study. The cluster and simple random sampling techniques were used to select 142 respondents for the study. The questionnaire was the main instrument used in the collection of the field data. The data were analysed with the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences...
ABSTRACT Human resource management is one of the most important practices which help to ensure retention of staffs in organisations. The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) in Ghana has been under intense pressure by citizens to revamp their workforce in order to achieve high performances. However, the institution has failed to be proactive in its responses to disaster management in the country. This study therefore examines the effect of employee turnover on performance of NAD...
ABSTRACT The dissertation aimed to access the impact of career and succession planning practices on the achievement of the organisatioal goals of SSNIT. It employed a descriptive approach to describe the demographic orientation and analyze the views of respondents. Due to the cumbersome nature of the population a sample of (175) respondents were used. Again, it applied statistical descriptive method as well as seasonal trend analyses to explain key performance indicators that were linked wit...
ABSTRACT The globalisation of businesses and advancement in Information Communication Technology (ICT) is reshaping the world of work and changing the way employees behave and the way managers manage their employees. Motivating and retaining employees have become an important and complex task for managers. This study sought to examine the effects of motivation on employee performance at the Produce Buying Company (PBC) in the Wassa Amenfi West District (WAWD). It also investigated the factors...
ABSTRACT The main focus of the research was to examine the impact of Microfinancing on the growth of Small Scale Industries. The study adopted a descriptive design and also concentrated on the collection of quantitative data. However, the target population of the study were Kente Weavers at Ashanti Bonwire area. For this specific reason, relevant data was collected from the owners or operators of the Kente Business, (Kente Weavers), in the Bonwire locality. In all, 60 respondents participat...
ABSTRACT Many scholars have found that, in the midst of ineffective and unproductive states in developing countries, there exists exceptionally well-performing public organizations that deliver their mandates effectively and productively. There is renewed research to understand why and how these pockets of effective and productive public organizations managed to emerge and persist in a context where failure of public organizations is the norm. The study explored the factors that have accounte...
ABSTRACT The study investigated two main issues; the types, causes and effects of immorality among students in the Second Cycle Institutions and the solutions to the problems of immorality among students in the various Second Cycle Institutions in the Asante Akyem North District. The research design used for the study is a descriptive survey. The decision to use the descriptive survey is based on the fact that this research is non-experimental as it deals with describing the existing conditio...
ABSTRACT Policy makers in the country see the private sector as the engine of growth. It is the pivot around which our quest for the middle-income status revolves. However, productivity is generally low in Ghana mainly because employees are poorly motivated. The study, therefore, assessed the perception of employees on the relationship between motivation and productivity in some selected private organisations in Accra. Both primary data comprising field survey and secondary data mainly obtain...
ABSTRACT The study sought to find out infant feeding practices and nutritional knowledge of nursing mothers in Apam. Multiple methods of data collection procedures such as questionnaire and interviews were used for the study. A total of one hundred and fifty (150) respondents were purposively sampled for the study. The St Lukes hospital and the Reproductive and Child health center (RCHC) all in Apam were used for the study. The data obtained were analysed using SPSS Version 20 and presented ...
ABSTRACT All companies have to be concerned with the issue of making sure that the best and most effect people are employed. This is something that a lot of organisations struggle with and find challenging. In recent times we have seen significant changes in both business and social environment, and those changes have caused organisations to reconsider the implementation of their Human Resource Management policies and practices. Selecting individuals that have good technical skills is no long...
ABSTRACT The Ghana Prisons Service engages in agriculture for two main reasons: for knowledge and skills acquisition in agriculture by the prisoners and to produce food for consumption. There is the perception of low levels of productivity in agriculture in the Ghana Prisons Service. The study sought to determine the effects of motivation on increasing productivity in agriculture at Nsawam Medium Security Prison in order to achieve the reasons for which the Service engages in Agriculture. The...
ABSTRACT This study aimed at investigating the effects of stress on employee’s performance in UT Bank in the Western Region of Ghana. The descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. The study involved 50 participants, comprising 10 managers and 40 employees. Simple convenient and purposive sampling technique were used in selecting the respondents. Questionnaires were the main instruments used to collect data. Frequencies and percentages were used to analyse the quantitative data, u...
ABSTRACT This study examines some of the roles non-governmental organisations (NGOs) play in promoting rural development in Ghana using Christian Rural Aid Network (CRAN); an NGO in Cape Coast as a case for study. The study identified some of the programmes and activities of CRAN in two of the communities it operates in, namely Duakor and Abakam, all suburbs of Cape Coast. Simple random sampling was used to identify 188 households using their house numbers for the study. The study identified ...