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...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of the Skills Training and Employment Placement (STEP) Programme on the youth in terms of job placements. It focused on the perceptions of the youth on the programme based on their experiences during and after the skills training. The research design, therefore, used for the study was evaluative. The stratified random sampling technique was used to select 152 respondents out of a population of 200 youth who participated in the...
ABSTRACT Emotional intelligence (EI) has become a familiar term among educators, counselors, and business leaders alike. The influence of emotional intelligence on job performance was tested among 43 instructional staff from Opportunities Industrialization Centre, Ghana. The general objective of the study was to assess the relationship between emotional intelligence and job performance. A 25item Boston EI questionnaire and job performance evaluation form was used to measure the participants�...
ABSTRACT Farmers’ access to relevant and useful agricultural information is key to improving their productivity. Research shows that the information needs of farmers differ and that the behaviour of farmers in seeking information is as varied as their production systems. The study was conducted to identify the information needs and assess the information seeking behaviour of urban vegetable farmers whose activities supplement the food needs of an increasingly urbanised population in sub-Sah...
ABSTRACT The study was aimed at gathering information on clients' perception of the quality of psychiatric services rendered to them at the outpatients department of the Accra psychiatric Hospital.The data was collected with the aid of a structured interview schedule. The main findings were that clients are generally satisfied with the quality of services rendered to them at the Psychiatric Hospital on most of the indices used. However, they had dissatisfaction in the following areas: ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to explore the current image perception of Ghana as a brand in order to generate recommendations for the country in developing a strong nation branding strategy. This study employed qualitative approach. Primary data was collected through focus group discussions and in-depth interview. Non-probability sampling technique specifically purposive sampling was used to establish the final sample size of 26 respondents. The study employed content analysi...
ABSTRACT Sexual and reproductive health is fundamental to the development of human capital. However, early age at sexuality exposes adolescents to the health risk of early pregnancy and childbearing, sexually transmitted infections, unsafe abortions, lost of socio-economic benefits and thereby affecting the realization of their human capital potentials. Descriptive cross-sectional design, questionnaire and interview schedules were the methods employed in data collection. Probability and non-p...
ABSTRACT The aim of this research was to examine the impact of Fiagya Rural Bank on SMEs profitability and growth. Through the stratified sampling method, a sample size of 156 respondents was selected to examine the impact of Fiagya Rural Bank on SMEs profitability and growth. The research design used in the study was descriptive research type. Data was collected through the administration of questionnaire. It was found out that overdraft and loans were the types of credit facilities availabl...