ABSTRACT In spite of their critical role and strategic importance as a check on the executive and a bridge between the government and the people, sub-national legislatures have remained largely understudied in Nigeria. This study, therefore, examined the performance of the Ogun State legislature in law-making, representation and oversight, as one of the most volatile and conflictual legislatures in Nigeria between 1999 and 2011. The theory of institutionalisation focusing on autonomy, intern...
ABSTRACT This study is aimed to explore the training and development processes and post training performance of employees in public organisation. The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice was used as a case study. In order to test two contrasting theories on training, the study set out to investigate of the relationship between training/development processes and post training performance of CHRAJ. The sample consists of one hundred and seventeen employees of CHRAJ in the Grea...
ABSTRACT This study investigated how large class size and the psychological classroom environment influenced students‟ academic performance. Again, the researcher sought to determine the extent to which large class size and psychological classroom environment influenced the manner in which teaching and learning was mediated in public senior high schools. To achieve this, the survey design was employed. 320 students were purposively selected from ten (10) public senior high schools in the K...
ABSTRACT The study sought to empirically examine the effects of real exchange rate on priceincentive to smuggle and the effect of price-incentive to smuggle on cocoa beans export in Ghana. Autoregressive Distributed Lag model (ARDL) was employed in analyzing the data. The study used secondary data from 1986 to 2016, gathered from sources including the Food and Agricultural Organization, World Development Indicators, Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research, and the Internationa...
ABSTRACT Corporate governance, as an antidote to corruption, has received significant public and regulators attention in today‘s global world and the internal audit has been identified as the most effective control mechanism to ensure good corporate governance in the public sector. This study, therefore, investigated into the effectiveness of the internal audit units in the public sector in promoting good corporate governance. It reviewed history of internal audit, corporate governance, in...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to investigate credit risk management and pricing strategies of Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs), and their influence on the enterprises’ performance at Cape Coast Metropolis (CCM). The descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. A sample size of 179 was used for the study. The snowball sampling technique was used to select the 179 respondents who were made up of owners/managers and account/finance staff of the various MSEs in the metropolis...
ABSTRACT This study was undertaken to find out the underlying reasons and effects of labour turnover among the Licensed Buying Companies (LBCs) operating in the Bia District of the Western Region of Ghana. The reason being that, the Ghanaian cocoa industry suffer devastating consequences of alarming rates of labour turnover. The employees have therefore been experiencing frequent job loss/job change. Accordingly, the hope of the researcher is that the result of this study will serve as a use...
ABSTRACT The performance and survival of any industry in a rapidly changing environment, among other factors, depends largely upon the internal control systems (ICS) put in place. Given the critical role that ICS play in every industry, the study sought to examine the effect of ICS on performance of companies in the Ghanaian insurance industry. The five variables of ICS developed by the Committee of Sponsoring Organisations (COSO) were used as independent variables whereas the dependent vari...
ABSTRACT This work was designed find out the extent to which leadership styles affect the commitment level of staff of the Eastern Regional Hospital, Koforidua. The study used a stratified sampling technique, where the respondents were grouped to form homogeneous strata being senior and junior staff. Systematic sampling was then used to select respondents from each stratum. A sample of one hundred and ten (110) employees was selected from a total population of eight hundred and twenty-seven ...
ABSTRACT Currently, the Kabakaba West Reserve is managed by the Municipal Forestry Department with little or no involvement of the surrounding communities. The non-participation of the adjoining communities in the management of the reserve has led to encroachment on the reserve by these communities leading to the degradation of the forest. The main purpose of this study was to assess the extent to which the communities surrounding the reserve have been involved in the management of the reser...
ABSTRACT There is an unpopular belief among Ghanaian workers that proceeding on retirement, especially in the Ghana Education Service, connotes sentencing oneself to impecuniousness due to ill-preparation and poor condition of service. The problem is compounded by volatile capital markets, rising medical-care costs and low saving rates among the working populace, making retirement behaviour and policy a major concern. The main objective of the study was to assess the state of retirement plan...
ABSTRACT This study empirically examines the relationship between stock market performance and economic growth in Ghana using quarterly time series data from 1991 to 2012 for four stock market performance indicators, namely; stock market capitalization ratio, stock market turnover ratio, total value traded ratio and the Ghana Stock Exchange market index with three other control variables. The study employed the Johansen and Juselius (1990) multivariate co-integration technique and vector err...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of employing training and development on job performance at Quality Control Company Limited (QCCL). The study argues that when the employee is given the right level of training at the right time and in a conducive environment, the employee will absorb the content of the training and that would help shape his/her skills in performing his/ her task in the workplace. The study assessed the training needs of the employees and how such...
ABSTRACT Children under five years are known to be more vulnerable and susceptible to nutritional deficiencies and malnutrition worldwide than any other group of people. Child malnutrition especially is responsible for over a million direct and indirect causes of death worldwide. The effects are even higher in developing countries. It was against this backdrop that the purpose of this study found out the feeding practices and nutritional status of children in Ampain refugee camp in Ghana. A ...
ABSTRACT The role of Credit unions in Ghana cannot be overemphasized. This motivated the researcher to investigate and establish the impact of credit union operations on its members’ development. To achieve this, quantitative approach through the use of explanatory design was adopted. Questionnaires with reliability alpha coefficient of .806 were used to collect responses from selected respondents. The data were analysed with the help of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS ver...