ABSTRACT The main aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness and efficiency of tax management using the Ghana Revenue Authority Asokwa office as a study area. The study was descriptive in nature and employed the quantitative method in data collection and analysis. The study population was Two Hundred (200) made up of the staff and management members of Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) at the Asokwa office in Kumasi. The researcher also adopted the stratified random sampling to select...
ABSTRACT The mobile telephony industry in Ghana has in recent times increasingly employed corporate sponsorship as a marketing tool. This study sought to find out the effectiveness of using corporate sponsorship as a marketing tool. The study made use of both primary data and secondary data. Two classes of respondents were used in this study: respondents from the mobile telecommunication companies (sponsors) and the beneficiaries of the sponsorship packages (sponsees). The two main data coll...
ABSTRACT This multivariate study examines the relationships among parental status, parental level of education, class size, location of school parental involvement, teacher effectiveness, academic motivation and academic self-concept on pupils’ academic performance. The research design for the study was a sequential explanatory with mixed methods approach. Stratified, simple random and purposive samplings were used to sample 324 pupils from the population for both quantitative and qualitat...
ABSTRACT The study measured the impact of rewards and compensation on employees’ performance within the Ghana Education Service. Specifically, the objectives of the study were to identify the rewards and compensation practices implemented within the Ghana Education Service, to assess the impact of intrinsic rewards on employees’ performance and finally to investigate the impact of extrinsic rewards on employees’ performance. This study was positioned within the positivism worldvi...
ABSTRACT Wildlife is an important socio-cultural and economic resource in West and Central Africa. The declining wildlife population in the recent time is as a result of a combination of factors, namely, increased access and demand for wildlife resources by rural and urban dwellers, population growth, improved hunting technology and lack of protein alternatives in many households.. This paper investigates the contribution of bush meat extraction to household’s livelihood (income, health, n...
ABSTRACT With limited evidence of decreases in malaria-related mortality and morbidity, and nearly half the time to the 2010 deadline of Roll Back Malaria (RBM)targets now past, we conducted this study to assess the awareness, accessibility and use of malaria control strategies among at-risk groups within the context of RBM in Nigeria. It was a descriptive, cross-sectional pilot study of 34 registered women attending antenatal clinics and 34 mothers of children less than five years old, using...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the perception of HIV/AIDS risk and sexual risk behaviours among youths with disabilities (WD) in comparison with youths without disabilities (comparison group)' The study adopted a cross-sectional survey with 362 participants comprising 181 WD with visual impaired 29(161o), physically challenged 40 (22.1Vo) and hearing impaired 112 (61'9Va) and comparison group (N = 181). A 9-item structured questionnaire was used for data collection' The instrument was revali...
ABSTRACT Job involvement and employee turnover have been implicated in many studies as serious challenges for organisational management. Although, several factors have been empirically linked with these variables, the role of personal values and perceived job characteristics has not been studied in-depth among workers in Anambra State. This study, therefore, examined the influence of personal values and perceived job characteristics on job involvement and turnover intention among workers in ...
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...