ABSTRACT The research was undertaken to assess the extent to which labor quality affects the quality of textbooks produced by GPC at the head office in Accra. The desire by management to enhance staff quality and the quality of textbooks produced, has lead GPC to introduce training courses with the objective of improving upon skills of employees. To achieve the objectives of the study, questionnaires were used to elicit information from the respondents. In all, 184 employees of the GPC were ...
ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to examine the effects of outsourcing on employee training and development in Westel. The study argues that when a task is outsourced, the skills and competencies used for the performance of that task will be lost unless an alternative use for that skill is created. This raises the need for employees to be retrained. The study examined the training needs of employees and how such needs were assessed within Westel. The study used the case study approach. The ...
ABSTRACT The main ambition of most organizations today is to present good financial results that may have the impetus of propelling the organization into the realization of its grand objectives. One important part of this is to ensure an effective way of managing liquid capital or in other words fund management. The thrust of this document is to help improve the public sector financial management practices, with a particular reference to the second cycle institutions of Ghana Education Servi...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the moderating role of working experience on the relationship between time management and employee performance. The purpose of this research is to explore the effect of time management on employee performance within Christian Service University College (CSUC), the moderating role of working experience. The objectives were to examine the effect of time management on the performance of employees and to examine the moderating role of working experience in t...
ABSTRACT The study examined the impact of stress on postgraduate working students at University of Education, Winneba, Kumasi Campus.University of Education, Winneba, Kumasi Campus was chosen for the study because it was established during the literature review that not much of similar studies have been conducted at public universities globally. It was therefore imperative that the views of university working students be sampled to know and to fill in the gap as to whether their work performa...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to ascertain the impact of bullying behaviour and personality traits on psychological health of junior high school students in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. The study used the descriptive survey design with quantitative approach. Multi-stage sampling procedures were used to select a sample of 390 junior high school students for the study. Three questionnaires adapted from the Olweus Bullying Questionnaires, Brief Symptoms Scale and Eysenck’s Person...
ABSTRACT Learning is key to the advancement of organizations. Organizations that learn have the tendency to adapt to change better than organizations which do not learn. Organizational learning can be facilitated by social media, which is a component of Web 2.0 technologies. Social media is composed of tools, applications and web applications, which have the potential of absorbing external knowledge. The Absorptive Capacity Theory was used as the theoretical lens for this study to help...
ABSTRACT Educating individuals on their rights and responsibilities is an essential ingredient for developing and consolidating democracy in the world, especially in developing countries. This study sought to find out the impact of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) in Ghana’s democratic dispensation in the Cape Coast Metropolis. Essentially the study explored the awareness of people about the NCCE and its activities, challenges and effective ways of disseminating government...
ABSTRACT The study examined the effects of macroeconomic variables on capital structure choice of non-financial listed firms in Ghana. The capital structure variables used were short term debt, long term debt and total debt. Macroeconomic variables were measured using inflation rate, interest rate and GDP growth rate. The study employed pure quantitative method and panel data covering the period from 2004 to 2014. Annual data for capital structure and macroeconomic variables were collected fr...
ABSTRACT The present nature of fashion calls for dressmakers to move along with the trend of producing innovative and creative garments that are well fitting and also appealing to their customers fashion sense. Dart which basically introduces fit in garment also serves as an asset with which a dressmaker can manipulate to create unique styles. However, casual observation made pointed to the inappropriate use of this element hence, the effect that it ought to create was rarely achieved. This s...
ABSTRACT Despite the increasing studies on corporate social responsibility and financial performance among high performing companies, very little interest has focused on Ghanaian firms. This study, therefore, examined the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and financial performance (FP) of the financial firms among Ghana Club 100. A secondary data were used for the study, and 20 financial firms whose CSR expenditure reports were available were selected. A correlation d...
ABSTRACT Internship is one of the most effective models of practical learning in Hospitality and Tourism Management (HTM) education. It has become necessary to ensure that graduates are equipped with appropriate practical skills. Furthermore, the combination of theory and practice is viewed as an essential component of a student’s HTM education. However, there is still much debate on the nature of training collaboration that exists among the stakeholders. This thesis investigates stakeholde...
ABSTRACT The globalization of the world‟s economy and markets led companies and nations to become world global players. Before the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), different countries developed their own national accounting standards. However, movement of business toward global economy brought challenges in comparability, objectivity, reliability, understandability among others. In view of this, this paper attempts to assess the impact of International Financi...
ABSTRACT The study was guided by four broad objectives; to explore the perception of employees and customers about the introduction electronic banking services, examine staff and customers perceptions of these innovations, assess the effects of these innovations on staff training and management and ascertain how staff are coping with the innovations. In all, 82 ADB staff including junior, middle and management and 120 customers responded to the questionnaire. The researcher conveniently selec...
ABSTRACT Previous empirical literature demonstrates conflicting results on the effect of capital structure on firm value. Building on extant literature on the effect of capital structure on firm value, this study was undertaken to examine the effect of capital structure on the firm value of manufacturing companies listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE). In particular, the study analyzed the effect of Equity and Long Term Debt as components of capital structure on the firm value of listed ma...