ABSTRACT The main purpose of this study was to examine the effects of financial and nonfinancial incentives on staff performance in public institutions. The detail of this research was conducted in an attempt to demonstrate whether incentives have a great potential to increase public employees’ motivation and work performance. To fulfill the objective of the research as well as to obtain real and reliable data, a research study was conducted at the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly. A proje...
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 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 purpose of the study was to assess the determinants of staff turnover intentions in the judicial service of the Ghana with concentration on the High Court at Kumasi. The study was guided by three objectives which were to assess the impact of personal or demographic factors on staff turnover intentions, the impact of economic factors on staff turnover intentions and the impact of organisational factors on staff turnover intentions at High Court, Kumasi. The study was a descriptiv...
ABSTRACT The study was conducted to examine the effects of HRM practices on the Employee‟s job performance using University of Education, Winneba-Kumasi campus as the study area. It aimed at describing and identifying the kind of HRM Practices that exist in the University taking, employees perception about it and some challenges thereof. The researcher uses the stratified simple random technique in the study. Using explanatory and quantitative research designs, 115 staff comprising 5 Deans...
ABSTRACT The study assessed employees’ satisfaction with employers support for higher education at Ecobank Ghana Limited. Data for the study was obtained from a sample of one hundred (100) respondents through self-administered questionnaires. Both qualitative and quantitative data were used for the study. The results indicated that training and development help improve employees’ performance within organizations, the study showed that the input from employers was minimal or non-existent...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the present research was to explore the impact of organizational culture on the job satisfaction and employees’ commitment in the University. Data for the study was collected through self-administered questionnaire at the University. The sample size consisted of 80 employees from different department at the University of Education. The findings of this study show the existence of a clear link between employees’ job satisfaction and organizational culture in both ...
ABSTRACT The issue of leadership has being a major concern to any surviving institution. Thus the progress and success of every institution is highly depends on the kind of quality leadership styles put in place. This study sought to investigate women HODs leadership experienced in the second cycle institutions in the Kumasi metropolis. The study employed the use of descriptive method of research. A sample size of 60 was used for the study and this was carried out using purposive sampling t...
Dividend policy is an important aspect of the organization’s corporate policies about which many researchers argued. It has become one of the most debatable topic for researchers due to the vagueness of its theories on the significance of dividend policy while indicating firm’s value. In this competitive environment the challenge to financial experts is to develop a dividend policy aiming at maximizing shareholder’s wealth by efficient utility of investment. So, there is a need to find ...
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.0BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY In Nigeria, empirical report shows that an estimate of about 70% of the industrial employment is held by Small Business Enterprises and more than 50% of the Gross Domestic Product is small business enterprises’ generated (Odeyemi, 2003). Given the seminal role of Small businesses to employment generation in Nigeria, various regimes of Government since independence in the 1960s, have focused on various programmes and spent immense a...
Abstract This study investigated the impact of external debt on economic growth in Nigeria for the period 1980-2015. Time series data on external debt stock and external debt service payment was used to capture external debt burden. Other variables such as exchange rate and Foreign Direct Investment where employed. The study set out to test for both long-run and causal relationship between eternal debt and economic growth in Nigeria. The Multi Linear Regression Method was used, and the techni...
INTRODUCTIONIt is a fact in materials management that continuity in production or provision of services on constant flow of required inventory. However, the question confronting the materials management remain, how much shall be ordered when the quality available is less than required to meet production demand or the quantity is less than order point and how best to plan and control the quantity of inventory needed at a given time.The focus of the materials manager is to reduce the two extrem...
INTRODUCTION An organization may be profit oriented or non-profit oriented. The fact remains that every organization is made up of four basic resources (i.e. man, material, money and machinery) and its environment. According to Weirich and Koontz (1987) management is a process of designing and maintaining an environment in which individuals working together in groups, efficiently accomplish selected aims. The term ‘environment’ in this definition refers to both internal and exter...
ABSTRACTThis research work on Quality control as an effective tool in production standardization (A case study of Seven Up Bottling Company Nigeria Limited). It strives to assess the role of quality control in enhancing the product standardization of manufacturing organizations. The study argues that the ultimate aim of any manufacturing company is the production of quality goods and services for the satisfaction of its customers and to maximize profit. The study reveals that for any product ...
INTRODUCTION This project is all about assessing the impact of planning and controlling as a management function on the survival of small scale business. Management is universal in the modern world. Every organization requires the making of decision, the coordination of activities, deciding in advance when, why how and who does what, setting of standards, measuring performance against standard and reviewing the standards. Numerous managerial activities have their own particular approach to ...