ABSTRACT The study assesses the strategies that SME owners have instituted to retain their employees in Kantamanto in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. Purposive and randomly sampling technique was used to select the respondents. In all ten respondents were selected for the study. Qualitative approach was employed which was underpinned by inductive logical reasoning. Interview guide was used as an instrument for the study. Conclusions from relevant related literature were captured along to a...
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I hardly know where to start saying thanks to all those who helped me with this thesis. First of all, my profound and heartfelt gratitude goes to my supervisors, Prof. P.E. Bondzi-Simpson and Mr. Edward Marfo-Yiadom. Their valuable contribution, innovation, talent and creative flair are very evident and much appreciated and so is Honourable Sam Quarm for his financial assistance. The greatest thanks of all go to my mom and dad who made it all worthwhile, 'who have supported m...
ABSTRACT The issue of human resource management has become paramount and complex due to current trend of business competition resulting from globalization and trade liberalization. The purpose of this study was to examine the human resource management (HRM) practices of the University Printing Press of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (UPK) and how they affect print production. The study focused on four HRM practices namely, resource planning, recruitment and selection, ...
ABSTRACT The study, which was conducted in the Kwahu Afram Plains North District, investigated factors that motivate parents to enrol their children in Kindergarten. The motivation of the study was to identify why parents voluntarily enrolled children in Kindergarten even when the State was unable to enforce compulsory universal enrolment or address Early Childhood Education sectoral challenges. The study employed a mixed-method approach and used question guides to collect information from 65...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to investigate the influence of financial management practices on organisational performance of NGOs who are into biodiversity, and are in Accra in the Greater-Accra Region of Ghana. The target population was all permanent staff of NGOs in Accra who are into biodiversity. However, the accessible population was all spending officers including management staff, project coordinators, field officers and finance/account/audit staff of the organisations. The to...
ABSTRACT This dissertation explored the extent to which information and communication technology (ICT) is used in Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) and how staff are trained to use ICT in the performance of their functions. It further examined how staff‟s ICT training needs are assessed as well as the prospects and challenges of ICT training in SSNIT and how these could be turned round for the benefit of SSNIT. The research was conducted at the head office of SSNIT (Pensi...
ABSTRACT In this study, an attempt was made to investigate the extent of effect of orientation programmes on the job performance of employees at Ghana library Authority. Using survey design, the study employed a two stage sampling technique to select respondents for this work. At the first stage a simple random sampling technique was used to select 5 regional libraries including Greater Accra, Central, Western, Ashanti and Eastern Regional Libraries. At the second stage 241 respondents were s...
ABSTRACT The Kwawus are from the Eastern Region of Ghana. They are traditionally known to be people with good business acumen which has also its historical basis. They are also known for protecting and maintaining their culture wherever they migrated to, and marriage and mate selection is one of them. It is expected that as people migrate to urban centres most of their traditional lifestyles change as a result of their exposure to people from different cultural and ethnic background. However,...
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...