ABSTRACT This research assessed the human resource management policies and programmes of teachers and managers with focus in the Tamale Metropolis. The broad objective was to determine the effectiveness of the policies and programmes in terms of its ability to motivate, improve teachers’ welfare, and to satisfy teachers. To carry out the study, the descriptive survey method was adopted. A total of 157 questionnaires were administered out of which 144 were retrieved given a response rate of ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to describe the nature of the employee training and development programmes that exist at the Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Ghana (Kumasi). It also ascertained the modes of conducting employee training programmes and identified the challenges of planning and implementation of the training programme in the company. Descriptive survey method was used for the study. Census was the sampling method used on a population size of 230 employees of the company who ...
ABSTRACT One of the key attributes of ethnic conflicts is that they could be complex and intractable. The Alavanyo-Nkonya conflict is one such conflict that presents traits of a complex conflict since the first violence was recorded in 1923. To understand such complexity, a qualitative research design was employed to study the conflict. Primary data was collected through in-depth interviews of six key informants selected purposively from among conflict parties and mediators. Secondary data fr...
ABSTRACT The study set out to examine the performance management process in the Volta Regional Hospital at Ho. Eight management staff and one hundred and twenty employees were randomly sampled to collect views on the performance management system in the hospital. Personal interviews and questionnaire were used to collect data. The findings of the study suggest that there is a performance management programme in place in the hospital. Managers and employees see the performance management proc...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to find out how stress affects senior members in some selected public Universities in Ghana and the management strategies that can be adopted to influence their work performance. A total of 300 participants were randomly selected from two public Universities in Ghana namely; University of Cape Coast and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. A 34 item questionnaire were designed and administered. The research data was analyzed using the SPSS...
ABSTRACT The study assessed the impact of training on staff performance in the Audit Service of Ghana in some selected Districts in the Central Region of Ghana. The descriptive and cross-sectional designs were adopted in the study and representative sample sizes of 100 employees were selected from the study. Self-developed questionnaire was used as a data collection tool. The descriptive statistics was used to analyse the data including means, standard deviations, frequencies and percentages...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the relationship between economic growth and financial deepening for the case of Ghana using quarterly data from 1983 to 2008. Whereas financial deepening was proxied by credit to private sector/GDP and broad money/GDP, economic growth was measured by real GDP per capita. Other variables included gross fixed capital formation/GDP, interest rate and government spending/GDP. Employing the Johansen cointegration approach, vector error correction, vector autoregre...
ABSTRACT Usually the organisation of training and development programmes for staff in institutions are carefully planned. This study is an investigation into the effectiveness of training and development programmes for State Insurance Company (SIC) staff within the Accra Metropolis. The general objective of the study was to explore the effectiveness of training and development programmes for the employees. Based on this general objective, five research questions were answered. A 37-item quest...
ABSTRACT The study set out to examine the utilisation of social networks among rural farmers in four rural communities in the Central Region of Ghana. Data were collected from 327 alters who were constituted via the egocentric approach based on eight(8) accidentally selected egos, and analysed with tools from SPSS (Version 21). Data were presented using frequency tables and percentages. The Kruskal Wallis and the median tests were used to test the differences in the communities with respect t...
ABSTRACT Hardly a day passes without cases of robbery being reported in both the print and the electronic media. It is against this backdrop that the study: Fighting Robbery in Ghana: Rethinking the Policies and the Strategies was conducted to analyse the kind of policies and strategies that have informed robbery control in Ghana from 1993 to 2017. The study adopted the mixed method research design, using content analysis, interviews and survey methods. The study is predominantly qualitative ...
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This project could not have been accomplished without the contributions of my able supervisor Dr. Kwabena Barima Antwi of the Department of Geography and Regional Planning, University of Cape Coast, whose comments, perceptive and constructive suggestions bestowed on the script have greatly improved and putting the script in a better perspective. My sincere thanks go to all those who provided constructive comments and advice which have greatly contributed positively to the tex...
ABSTRACT The thesis examined the effect of macroeconomic factors on foreign direct investment inflows to Ghana. It specifically examines a few selected macroeconomic variables that have either a direct or indirect relationship with foreign direct investment in Ghana. The principal objective of this study was to empirically analyse the effect of macroeconomic variables on foreign direct investment in Ghana between 1993 to 2013. Secondary data are used in this study. Time series data for the pe...
ABSTRACT Traditional Medicine (TM) has been practised in Ghana from time immemorial and many Ghanaians still patronise the services of traditional medical practitioners (TMPs). However, TM has not been integrated into the formal healthcare delivery system of the country. This might be partly due to attitudes and perceptions towards it. The aim of the study was to find out the attitudes and perceptions of Scientific Medical Practitioners (SMPs) towards TM in Ghana and then propose measures for...
ABSTRACT Advertising enables companies to meet communication and other marketing objectives. Consumers’ purchase behaviour in today’s information-saturated world is based on how a service or product is advertised. In spite of the apparent wide-spread and huge-scale adoption of E-advertising on a global scale, one does not see this trend happening on a big scale in Ghana. Thus, using the descriptive study design the study sought to explore and unravel the influence of e-advertising on cons...
ABSTRACT Human resources refer to the individuals who comprise the workforce of an organization, although it is also applied in labour economics, for example, business sectors or even whole nations. The recruitment of staff into NHIS is believed to be on party lines without adherence to good human resource management practices. The study was, therefore, conducted to assess the human resource management practices within the National Health Insurance Scheme in the Brong Ahafo region and to draw...