ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to explore the lived experiences of the elderly under institutional care at Batanai Old Age Home in Gweru, Zimbabwe. The research explored the lives of the residents taking note of the reasons behind their admission into the institution, the positive and negative aspects of staying in an institution. The study also looked at the coping strategies that they adopted and the support systems required in nursing homes to ensure the wellbeing of the residents.T...
ABSTRACT This research constitutes one of the first attempts to provide a comprehensive review of the circular relationship between food security and positive peace. It offers some insights on the impact of food security on positive peace and its related development outcomes and how the absence of positive peace contributes to food insecurity. This way it is possible to look beyond income, entitlements or livelihoods related-frameworks as the drivers of food insecurity. Food insecurity can be...
ABSTRACT The research analyzed the role played by non-governmental organizations in promoting peace, using the case of South Sudan. Since South Sudan got its independence from Sudan in July 9,2011, catastrophes in the world‟s newest independent country have not ended, the people are still ravaged with inevitable conflicts and wars, due to multiple challenges and other push factors like poorly performing government, disjoint social cohesion, civil unrest and the psycho-social trauma generate...
ABSTRACT The research project was carried out to investigate on the appropriateness of the prevailing presumptive tax rates levied on informal sector as some informal firms are not paying presumptive tax. The researcher was enticed to study the prevailing presumptive tax rates as presumptive tax head has been under-performing which results in ZIMRA missing the presumptive tax target for the past five years except in 2014. Results of the study revealed out that the presumptive tax rates levied...
ABSTRACT The study sought to find out the effectiveness of employee compensation strategies on employee performance. A case of Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe was used. The main objectives of the research were to determine the impact of a basic pay on employee commitment, to assess the influence of commission based reward on employee productivity in the minerals marketing sector and to measure the effectiveness of fringe benefits on worker absenteeism. The study reviewed that compe...
ABSTRACT This study investigates the various decision methods and models used by the Government of Zimbabwe in the process of identifying and prioritising national power generation projects for capitalisation purposes. The selection and prioritisation process was considered to be central to the pooling and channelling of resources towards optimal electricity generation in the country in the context of ZIMASSET power projects. The study’s main objective was to address the identified disconne...
ABSTRACT This study sought to determine the impact of non-compliance on statutory obligations by employers to the financial performance of NSSA. In this study 20 employers, 10 inspectors and 3 Principal compliance inspectors and the Compliance Manager were used as research subjects. The researcher used questionnaires and interviews as research instruments. The study showed that the main causes of non-compliance by employers to their statutory obligations taking social security contributions t...
ABSTRACT The research sought to establish the impact of micro and macro-economic factors on the profitability of banks in the banking sector of Zimbabwe. The low levels of profitability has been an area of concern. The study covered the period from 2012 to 2016 using monthly time series data employing the Ordinary Least Squares method to ascertain the factors that contribute to profitability as measured by Return on Assets. In the previous period, the profitability of banks have been on an up...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to establish the challenges faced in implementing a functional environmental education programme in secondary schools. The researcher used a descriptive survey design because it gave a descriptive picture to the data obtained through observations, interviews and questionnaires. The sample consisted of twelve teachers and forty students from schools in Mhondoro-Mubaira Cluster. Questionnaires, interviews and observations were used as data generation tools...
ABSTRACT The study of psychological empowerment have been neglected locally,regionally and internationally. Different empowerment programs that have been introduced worldwide have failed to address the matter from a psychological standpoint. Negligence of psychological empowerment programes globally has therefore contributed to high rate of unemployment amongst the youth’s.The fact that the youth’s are the most disadvantaged group drive the researcher to carry out a study that targeted th...
ABSTRACT The research study focused on the effectiveness of Results Based Financing (RBF) in the provision of better services within health facilities. The main motives of this research are to examine the forms of RBF being partaken by health service providers in ensuring changes in the health sector, to identify the various challenges experienced in the implementation of RBF, to analyze the influence of RBF towards a motivated health workforce within the operating circles, to assess the exte...
Abstract The research was carried out to find out the effect of cost leadership strategies on company performance in the advertising industry. In this research a sample of 61 respondents was used as representative of the target population. The main objectives of this research was to find out the effect of vertical integration on market share, to determine the effects of restructuring on company profitability, to evaluate whether outsourcing from cheapest supplier managed to reduce company cos...
INTRODUCTION 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY 1 1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM 3. 1.3 RESEARCH OBJECTIVES. 4 1.4 RESEARCH QUESTIONS 4 1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDY 4 1.5.1 Practical Significance 4 1.5.2 Theoretical Significance 5 1.6 RESEARCH ASSUMPTIONS 5 1.7 DELIMITATION (SCOPE) OF STUDY 5 1.8 LIMITATIONS 5 1.9 DEFINATION OF KEY TERMS 6 1.10 CHAPTER SUMMARY 7 CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW 2.0. Introduction 8 2.1 An Overview of Loan Performance 8 2.1.1 Determinants of Loan Performanc...
ABSTRACT The study sought to compare the determinants of capital structure among listed and non-listed financial firms in Zimbabwe for the period 2010 to 2016. The major objective was to establish if there was a relationship between debt to equity ratio and the independent variables and to answer the question of whether listed financial firms had capital advantages over non-listed financial firms. No studies had been done in Zimbabwe on comparability of listed and non-listed financial firms. ...
ABSTRACT The researcher sought to study on the strategies used by Midlands State University students to cope with academic stress. The research was enriched with a couple of theories,relavant literature by other authors and previous studies that supported the research. The students were sampled using stratified random sampling. Stratification comprised of strata that are first, second and fourth year students from the Psychology Department in the Faculty of Social Sciences who made up a total...