ABSTRACT Cocoa swollen shoot virus disease has severely hampered the production of cocoa and the economy of Ghana since pre-colonial days. This study set out to find the impact of the cocoa swollen shoot disease on the living standards of cocoa farmers in Ghana. A structured questionnaire was used to seek information from cocoa farmers in Chorichori in the Sefwi Akontombra District of the Western Region of Ghana where the disease is currently epicenter. All households in the community were in...
ABSTRACT Restructuring in the energy sector of Ghana‟s economy is ongoing and Volta River Authority, a lead actor, is not an exception. The Authority intends to adopt public private partnership (PPP) vehicle to convert all non-power businesses (health, education, hospitality and transportation, local government administration of the Akosombo Township) into stand-alone commercial ventures. It therefore outlined the „BRAISE‟ strategy and tasked the Change Management Team to sensitize all ...
Abstract The employment generation capacity of the formal sector comprising the public and organized private sectors in Nigeria is shrinking. The informal sector therefore offers a ray of hope for employment and earnings for urban unskilled and semi skilled labour. The promotion of informal sector activities by the government requires an insight into their mode of operation for better policy targeting. This paper therefore examines the operational characteristics, financing, training, employ...
ABSTRACT Concurrent tuberculosis and HIV treatment is a standard practice in co-infected patients. However, adherence to combined treatment is challenging because of multiplicity of drugs involved. Although studies exist on adherence to either HIV or tuberculosis treatment, negligible attention has been paid to adherence among patients on combined HIV and tuberculosis treatments. This study therefore examined the factors influencing treatment adherence among tuberculosis-infected HIV patient...
ABSTRACT The high maternal and child mortality rates of 500 per 100,000 and 128 per 1,000 live births are major research and health policy concerns often caused by inequity in utilisation of basic maternal and child healthcare in Nigeria. Although existing literature provided estimates of determinants of maternal and child healthcare utilisation, inequity in maternal and child healthcare utilisation has not been given adequate attention. This study, therefore, examined horizontal inequity in...
ABSTRACT Trends in businesses today have made it essential for almost all organizations to maintain an effective Internal Control System. The regulatory and institutional framework has improved considerably, yet still Banks in Ghana are facing some challenges as the world deals with one of the deepest financial crisis in the history of the planet. The effects of the global financial meltdown are gradually being felt by developing countries of which Ghana is not an exception. The stud...
ABSTRACT Since the mandatory adoption of International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) in 2007 in Ghana, there have been little empirical studies focusing on value relevance of financial data using return-model. This study focused on value relevance of earnings after IFRS adoption in ECObank Ghana Limited, UT Bank Limited, Societe Generale Bank, Standard Chartered Bank Ghana Limited, GCB Bank, Agricultural Development Bank, National Investment Bank and HFC Bank Limited. The study used on...
ABSTRACT The research was undertaken to assess the extent to which labor quality affects the quality of textbooks produced by GPC at the head office in Accra. The desire by management to enhance staff quality and the quality of textbooks produced, has lead GPC to introduce training courses with the objective of improving upon skills of employees. To achieve the objectives of the study, questionnaires were used to elicit information from the respondents. In all, 184 employees of the GPC were ...
ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to examine the effects of outsourcing on employee training and development in Westel. The study argues that when a task is outsourced, the skills and competencies used for the performance of that task will be lost unless an alternative use for that skill is created. This raises the need for employees to be retrained. The study examined the training needs of employees and how such needs were assessed within Westel. The study used the case study approach. The ...
ABSTRACT The main ambition of most organizations today is to present good financial results that may have the impetus of propelling the organization into the realization of its grand objectives. One important part of this is to ensure an effective way of managing liquid capital or in other words fund management. The thrust of this document is to help improve the public sector financial management practices, with a particular reference to the second cycle institutions of Ghana Education Servi...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the moderating role of working experience on the relationship between time management and employee performance. The purpose of this research is to explore the effect of time management on employee performance within Christian Service University College (CSUC), the moderating role of working experience. The objectives were to examine the effect of time management on the performance of employees and to examine the moderating role of working experience in t...
ABSTRACT The study examined the impact of stress on postgraduate working students at University of Education, Winneba, Kumasi Campus.University of Education, Winneba, Kumasi Campus was chosen for the study because it was established during the literature review that not much of similar studies have been conducted at public universities globally. It was therefore imperative that the views of university working students be sampled to know and to fill in the gap as to whether their work performa...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to ascertain the impact of bullying behaviour and personality traits on psychological health of junior high school students in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. The study used the descriptive survey design with quantitative approach. Multi-stage sampling procedures were used to select a sample of 390 junior high school students for the study. Three questionnaires adapted from the Olweus Bullying Questionnaires, Brief Symptoms Scale and Eysenck’s Person...
ABSTRACT Learning is key to the advancement of organizations. Organizations that learn have the tendency to adapt to change better than organizations which do not learn. Organizational learning can be facilitated by social media, which is a component of Web 2.0 technologies. Social media is composed of tools, applications and web applications, which have the potential of absorbing external knowledge. The Absorptive Capacity Theory was used as the theoretical lens for this study to help...
ABSTRACT Educating individuals on their rights and responsibilities is an essential ingredient for developing and consolidating democracy in the world, especially in developing countries. This study sought to find out the impact of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) in Ghana’s democratic dispensation in the Cape Coast Metropolis. Essentially the study explored the awareness of people about the NCCE and its activities, challenges and effective ways of disseminating government...