ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to investigate the recruitment and selection practices of organisations, using the Ghana Education Service (GES) Office in the Kumasi Metropolis as a case. The study was guided by these objectives; to identify the recruitment and selection practices, to examine how recruitment and selection practices affect the performance of teachers and to assess the challenges faced by GES in recruitment, and selection process. The population for the study was for...
ABSTRACT It was until the early 1990’s that economists began to place greater emphasis on the role of human capital development as the basic rock for development. Using a multi-stage sampling technique, the researcher interviewed a sample of 868 households in rural Ghana. The study adopted unitary model of intra household decision model to examine parents’ expectation and investment in children’s education in rural Ghana. The study revealed that the probability that children getting the...
ABSTRACT The study set out to examine food vending hygiene practices among food vendors in the Bolgatanga municipality. The specific objectives were to examine the factors that influence the choice of location for food vending, examine the sanitary conditions of the physical environment of food vending, analyse the safety of food handling practices of food vendors, examine the institutional set-up governing safe practices of food vendors, and analyse the microbial content of food served by fo...
ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to investigate human resource planning practices in public hospital using in Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital as a case. The study is a descriptive study with quantitative method as the study design. In gathering data for the study, primary and secondary were used. The study used simple random sampling technique. Questionnaires were the major instruments used to collect data for the study. A total of 152 questionnaires were administered of which 130 correctly ...
ABSTRACT The Wassa West Health Insurance Scheme (WWHIS), a district health insurance scheme in the Western Region, provides insurance cards to subscribers in the district to access affordable health care from accredited health facilities. The study was carried out to find out the extent to which health care is accessible and affordable to the people and to determine the sustainability of the scheme. Ten communities in the district were purposively selected. These communities cut across the en...
ABSTRACT This study find out the financial performance of Queensland International School using some selected financial ratios. The specific objectives was to evaluate the financial stability, operational and solvency ratios. The quantitative approach and the descriptive research design were adopted for the study. The census sampling techniques was used to select the sample for the study while the descriptive approach was used to describe the results. It was found that, the current assets of ...
ABSTRACT Performance appraisal is considered as one of the key human resource practices in recent times since it covers a variety of activities through which organisations seek to assess employees and develop their competences in order to enhance their performances. The study sought to examine health workers’ perception of the performance appraisal system in St. Theresa’s Hospital, Nandom in the Upper West region of Ghana. The study employed the quantitative approach and descriptive resea...
ABSTRACT Leadership style plays a role in staff intention to quit. The study examined the relationship between leadership styles and nurses’ intention to quit at the Volta Regional Hospital. Specifically, the study assessed the perceived leadership style(s), analysed the relationship between transaction leadership style and nurses’ intention to quit and also examined the relationship between transformational leadership style and nurses’ intention to quit. Descriptive design and the quan...
The study examined the growth impact of government consumption, interest and transfer payments in Ghana. A quarterly time series data from 1984 to 2015 was utilised. The maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) technique was employed, and cointegration among the variables was established within the framework of autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL). A Pair-wise Granger-causality test was adopted to explore the direction of causality between government expenditure components (consumption, transfer ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between personality types and employee job satisfaction. The specific objectives of the study were to examine; the relationship between agreeableness and employee job satisfaction; the relationship between extroversion and employee job satisfaction; the relationship between neuroticism and employee job satisfaction; the relationship between consciousness and employee job satisfaction and the relationship between openness ...
ABSTRACT The study was to examine the knowledge and utilization of e-banking facilities in Kaaseman Rural Bank in Ghana. The study used a quantitative and descriptive design of which customers and management of Kaaseman Rural Bank were targeted. Two hundred and eighty respondents were chosen with the aid of simple random sampling technique for selecting the customers while purposive sampling was used to select the managers of the four branches of Kaaseman Rural Bank. Questionnaire was the mai...
ABSTRACT Scholars argue that the low performance of SMEs partly results from their inability to keep proper accounting records. Yet, extant literature addressing the effect of accounting record keeping on the performance of SMEs in the Ghanaiancontext is scanty. To bridge this gap, the present study sought to assess the effect of accounting record keeping on the performance of SMEs in the Cape Coast Metropolis. The study employed the quantitative research approach, descriptiveexplanatory rese...
ABSTRACT The study investigated employees’ satisfaction towards employer support for higher education among. The main objectives of the study were to identify the employer support systems provided by ECG to assist its employees in higher education programmes. This study was positioned within the positivism worldview hence quantitative methodology was adopted. The study used simple random sampling to select the study participants. The study subsequently used the Krejcie and Morgan (1970) s...
ABSTRACT The Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis is confronted with the problem of land litigation which is as a result of a number of activities including quarrying. This study set out to examine social acceptance as a guideline for permitting quarries in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis. The study was both explorative and descriptive and aimed at going beyond existing information and delved into the unknown and brought to the fore what indeed the problem was and possibly identifies the causes and ho...
ABSTRACT For any organisation to achieve its mission and set objectives, training of its employees is one of the key factors that need much attention. In-service training is a training type that can enhance the effectiveness of teachers on their jobs, develop their professionalism, and facilitate their adaptation to changes and novel situations in their professional life. The main objective of this research was to identify how organisational climate could affect transfer of training among tea...