ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to assess the perception of students of distance education about distance learning in Ghana. Specifically, this study assessed; the opinion of distance students regarding distance education in Ghana, the main factors contributing to the demand for distance education, the level of distance students’ satisfaction of distance education, and the challenges faced by the students offering distance education. A cross-section survey and quantitative method wer...
This paper investigated the threshold effect of financial inclusion on poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Using an annual dataset spanning 2010 to 2017, the Hansen’s estimation and Differenced generalized method of moments (GMM) methods were used to estimate the threshold level of financial inclusion that will reduce poverty and factors that influence financial inclusion respectively. The results showed that beyond a threshold level of 0.365, financial inclusion would lead to po...
ABSTRACT Non-enforcement of policies regarding persons with disability (PWDs) is a major national problem, especially when it comes to the hearing impaired and acquisition of drivers’ licenses in Ghana. The hearing impaired persons mobility to accessing some basic services such as education, social and economic activities, health and other cultural activities could depend on their mandate to drive to places in seeking for these basic services, hence the need for drivers’ licenses to ply t...
ABSTRACT In the last few decades, mutual funds have developed due to the global integration of financial markets. The aim of this study is assessing the role of mutual funds towards increasing the financial gains of investors, using Databank Mutual fund as a case study. The study adopted descriptive research. The simple random sampling method is used to sample the 100 respondents from the Accra and Tema branches of Databank. The study found out that a greater majority of the respondents inves...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to identify factors constituting workload, time pressure, mental stress and their job satisfaction of Ghanaian nurses and also to provide an understanding of the influencing relationships among these factors. Guided by theoretical concepts in work physiology and occupational health, a standardized questionnaire was adapted and used to collect data from 300 nurses in four public hospitals in Accra. The collated data was analyzed using factor, correlation a...
ABSTRACT The distortions in the literature on the relevance of micro-enterprises have been blamed partly on the lack of clarity on the growth measures for micro-enterprises. This study, therefore, investigated whether there are specific growth measures used by micro-enterprise to measure growth. From a qualitative perspective, the researcher adopted a case study strategy, semi-structured interview, and a snowballing sampling technique to sample five micro-entrepreneurs popularly called ―Gor...
ABSTRACT Rewarding workers for their effort within a given period becomes a motivation that spurs them on to work harder. Motivation for work is both intrinsic and extrinsic, but with time, individual workers become more drawn towards one of the forms of motivation. This study focuses on examining the relationship between employee involvement in decision making and their levels of motivation. Participation or involvement in decision making constitutes an intrinsic form of motivation while mon...
ABSTRACT Online advertising is an increasingly-examined aspect of marketing literature, yet the relationship between the specific dimensions of the construct and its outcomes remain unclear. This study was therefore designed to examine the relationship between online advertising characteristics and purchase intention and the mediating role of volume of electronic word of mouth in the automobile industry. Questionnaires were used to gather data from 350 online automobile purchasers in Ghana. T...
ABSTRACT Ghana has various mechanisms to ensure that good relations exist between employers and employees at places of work. Such mechanisms include the Labour Law, Department of Labour, National Labour Commission (NLC), the Trades Union Congress and other ratified ILO labour conventions. Despite the availability of all these institutions to maintain peace and harmony at workplaces, the problem of labour disputes still exist. The study sought to investigate industrial disputes and conflicts ...
ABSTRACT This study investigates the contribution of the Services sector to total tax revenue and economic growth in Ghana, with particular focus on the Telecommunication subsector. Quarterly time series data for the period 2008 to 2016 was used for the analysis within the Autoregressive Distributed Lagged (ARDL) framework. Additional qualitative information was elicited from key tax administrators to ascertain the challenges confronting tax mobilization in the telecom subsector to authentica...
ABSTRACT In today‟s competitive global environment, merger among business entities and corporations has gained enormous interest leading to significant organizational restructuring within and across firms in the corporate world. The changing nature of work has brought about issues of job satisfaction and dissatisfaction leading to turnover intention of employees affected by mergers. This study sought to achieve three main objectives. The first objectives of the study was to examine the effe...
ABSTRACT Several changes in recent times have characterised the business of banking in the world which solely relied on sufficient capital to implement minimum capital requirement and to ensure banks stay competitively. The Central Bank in Ghana noticed that the minimum required capital of banks as of 2008 was not sufficient to enable them to take more significant ticket transactions. It, therefore, augmented the minimum required capital of universal banks to GH₵ 60 million on 31st December...
ABSTRACT Small-holder farmers in the urban and peri-urban areas have become very vulnerable to land use change patterns due to rapid increase in population and urbanization. Farmlands are gradually being converted to residential facilities, posing significant threat to the livelihood of farmers who depend on such lands. Land use change at Abokobi dates back to the 2004, but the phenomena became more pronounced in 2008 when the Ga East District attained municipal status. With support from the ...
ABSTRACT Production and consumption activities generate waste which subsequently must be managed. Informal resource recovery is seen to have emerged to fill the gap caused by the absence of enough formal waste processing facilities, as well as a livelihood strategy especially among the poor. Materials recovered from waste are either re-used or recycled, and include plastics, metals, paper, bottles and electronic waste. Reported as employing millions across the globe, those who engage in resou...
TABLE OF CONTENT Title Page Approval Page Dedication Acknowledgement Table of content CHAPTER ONE 1.1 Background of the Study 1.2 Statement of the Problems 1.3 Objective of the Study 1.4 Research Questions 1.5 Hypothesis 1.6 Scope of the Study 1.7 Limitation of the Study 1.8 Significant of the Study 1.9 History of Power Holding Company 1.10 Definition of Terms CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Origin and Evolution of Public Corporation in Nigeria 2.2 Reason for the Establ...