ABSTRACT This study sought to examine the effects of reward systems on job satisfaction of the staff of the National Investment Bank main branch in Accra. The research, specifically examined the nature of reward systems at NIB and compared the reward system to best practice as well as determine the extent of worker satisfaction with the reward system. The study used descriptive design to determine the effects of reward systems on job satisfaction. A total of 44 respondents made up of ...
ABSTRACT Tax planning is increasingly becoming an area of interest to many organizations including banks due to the potential benefits that firms and shareholders could derive from it. The problem militating against tax planning is the agency cost and other non-tax costs associated with it. To mitigate the agency problem between shareholders and managers, shareholders rely on corporate governance mechanisms in ensuring ...
ABSTRACT The study sought to assess the role of auditors in fraud detection and prevention focussing on Mutual Fund in the Kumasi Metropolis (MFs-K). The study, specifically, sought to achieve the following objectives, to identify the factors that cause fraud in the Mutual Funds, to determine the role of external and internal auditors in fraud detection and prevention in the Mutual Funds and to examine how auditors can detect and prevent fraud. Data was collected from respondents with a wel...
ABSTRACT The study explored the conflict prevention strategies of state and nonstate actors in the Northern Region of Ghana. The study employed qualitative strategy of inquiry. The study population included members and staff of the four institutions selected for the study (National Peace Council (NPC), Regional Security Council (REGSEC), West Africa Network for Peacebuilding in Ghana (WANEP-Ghana), and traditional authorities). Purposive sampli...
ABSTRACT There is a growing recognition that community participation is a very important element in achieving the goals of the poverty reduction programmes. But is it only in theory or also in practice? This study assessed community participation in the Rural Enterprise Programme (REP) to enhance participation and poverty reduction. A total of 72 respondents consisting of programme beneficiaries, staff of REP and opinion leaders constituted the sample for the study. D...
ABSTRACT The study examined the improvement of staff performance through training and development at the Ridge Hospital. The problem was negative attitude observed toward patients by some of the nursing staff. The data were obtained from semi-structured interview and questionnaire (5 – point likert scaled questionnaire). The study design was a case study. The sample for the study involved fifty...
ABSTRACT This study aims at examining the perception on training and organisational commitment among staff of Ghana Immigration Service in the Upper West region. The objectives were: to examine the perceived benefits of organizational training; determine the nature of organisational commitment among staff, assess the extent to which the perceived main individual organisational training factors influence employee’s commitments, and fin...
ABSTRACT Public financial management concerns the efficiency and effectiveness of the use of public resources based on approved budgets. The purpose of this study was to assess the influence of public financial management and service delivery at the local government level using Ejura Sekyedumase Municipal Assembly in the Ashanti region of Ghana as a case. The specific objectives were to establish the relationship between policy based budgeting and servic...
ABSTRACT Job Satisfaction, no matter the parameters that one may use in describing it, has been found to be an important contributory factor in productivity. The perception that workers have about their jobs may have an influence on their attitude and commitment towards the job. This study focused on job satisfaction among the junior and senior staff of the Balme Library, University of Ghana, Legon. It aimed at determining the factors affecting job satisfaction, the extent or level of...
ABSTRACT Since the revival of the concept three decades ago by East European social scientists, the assumptions have been that the notion of civil society could be useful for public policy formulation and democratization. The key hypothesis of scholars, activists and donors is that civil society is the hitherto missing key to sustained political reforms, legitimate states and governments, improved governance, viable state and society, state-economy relationship and the prevention of the polit...
ABSTRACT The chief thrust of this work is to examine the stimulus banks novelties has on fiscal performance in Ghana profitable banks listed. This research selected these banks registered on the interchange market to avoid issues of subjective outcomes which may lead to skeptical issues later on. Specifically, the study sought to: look at, the influence bank innovations have on net interest margin in Ghana commercial banks, scrutinize the stimulus banks n...
ABSTRACT The thesis examined the career and educational aspirations of secondary school students in Ghana. The study, which was a cross-sectional descriptive survey specifically, aimed at determining the type of jobs students wish to do, sectors of the economy and places they wish to work, relationship of their career aspirations to the manpower needs of Ghana as well as factors influencing their career aspirations. Students' intention and desire to pursue further studies as well as the...
ABSTRACT The debate about reinventing foreign aid has gone beyond affirming that foreign aid works or does not work. The history of aid has been a mixed one: some have worked in certain contexts, and some have not worked. This essay explores what type of aid has worked and what has not. Under what conditions can aid work effectively, and what type of aid, and how can we make aid effective and what type of actors can make aid effective ? Aid has worked when it is targeted, specific, ...
Abstract The objective of the research conducted for the purpose of this report was to collect data that gave an overview of the socio-economic profiles of constituents across the Northern Province which could be assessed to analyse voting behaviour and identify key action points for future programme work and research. There is very little data currently available in Sierra Leone, especially research that focusses on political participation and governance related issues. Exit poll surveys and...
ABSTRACT There is overwhelming evidence in empirical literature that in the presence of market imperfections, investments of financially constraint firms become sensitive to the availability of internal finance. There are also contradictory evidences regarding the pattern of the observed investment cash flow sensitivity. However, most of the empirical work on the responsiveness of firms’ investment to cash flow was done using data from developed markets. This study examines not jus...