ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to assess the effects of labelling attributes of market products on consumer’s choice in the Cape Coast Metropolis. Data were collected from 123 consumers and shopkeepers/shop owners in the Cape Coast Metropolis. Presentation and analysis of the study’s data were done using percentages and frequencies which were discussed descriptively. Chi-square tests were also used to test the association between consumers’ demographic characteristics and consume...
ABSTARCT Managers of public, private, civil or non-governmental organisations cannot ignore the importance of developing their human resource to acquire the essential skills, knowledge and desired attitudes needed for timely delivery of appropriate actions to achieve corporate goals. It is no doubt that the effective tool to measure or evaluate performance of individuals, teams and organisations is the Performance Appraisal technique. The question, however, is how relevant and effective is t...
ABSTRACT The general objective underlying this study was to examine the effect of safety measures on the job performance of workers at the Adwumapa Buyers Company Limited in the Aowin-Suaman district of the Western Region. The study was to provide guidance to the improvement of safety measures at various workplaces with the aim to minimize risk and also improve worker efficiency and effectiveness. It was also geared towards making in-depth analysis of safety measures at the workplace and the...
ABSTRACT This report provides an insight into the involvement of children in surface mining activities. It endeavors to throw more light on the roles played by children in surface mining and the dangers faced by such children and the long term effect on their education and health.The objectives of the study were to examine the living conditions of children in the study area, roles assigned to children in mining activities; the working conditions of such children; the effects of involvement...
ABSTRACT The principal objective of this paper is to ascertain and examine the presence of gender gaps in the performance of SMEs in Ghana, and to determine the contribution of financial inclusion to the gender performance gap of 1225 SMEs observed in the Gender and Enterprise development in Africa survey in 2015. Using the Unconditional Quantile Decomposition Technique, the findings from the study revels statistically significant gender gaps at the selected quantiles. Financial incl...
ABSTRACT The competitiveness of financial institutions, in recent times, have called for Ghanaian rural banks to implement relevant total quality management practices in order to improve customer retention. However, total quality management practices and customer retention has not been largely investigated in Ghana’s rural banking sector. The study, therefore, purposely examined the effect of total quality management practices on customer retention at Unity Rural Bank. It also examined the...
ABSTRACT Performance appraisal is a mechanism for determining the performance levels of employees in any organisation based on which reward and remedy programmes are implemented. Classroom teachers have a perception of the performance appraisal system at the school level as geared towards only promotions. This perception held by many classroom teachers impedes the level of their contribution to the appraisal process. The perception is addressed within four principal objectives. The study used...
ABSTRACT The study assesses the strategies that SME owners have instituted to retain their employees in Kantamanto in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. Purposive and randomly sampling technique was used to select the respondents. In all ten respondents were selected for the study. Qualitative approach was employed which was underpinned by inductive logical reasoning. Interview guide was used as an instrument for the study. Conclusions from relevant related literature were captured along to a...
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I hardly know where to start saying thanks to all those who helped me with this thesis. First of all, my profound and heartfelt gratitude goes to my supervisors, Prof. P.E. Bondzi-Simpson and Mr. Edward Marfo-Yiadom. Their valuable contribution, innovation, talent and creative flair are very evident and much appreciated and so is Honourable Sam Quarm for his financial assistance. The greatest thanks of all go to my mom and dad who made it all worthwhile, 'who have supported m...
ABSTRACT The issue of human resource management has become paramount and complex due to current trend of business competition resulting from globalization and trade liberalization. The purpose of this study was to examine the human resource management (HRM) practices of the University Printing Press of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (UPK) and how they affect print production. The study focused on four HRM practices namely, resource planning, recruitment and selection, ...
ABSTRACT The study, which was conducted in the Kwahu Afram Plains North District, investigated factors that motivate parents to enrol their children in Kindergarten. The motivation of the study was to identify why parents voluntarily enrolled children in Kindergarten even when the State was unable to enforce compulsory universal enrolment or address Early Childhood Education sectoral challenges. The study employed a mixed-method approach and used question guides to collect information from 65...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to investigate the influence of financial management practices on organisational performance of NGOs who are into biodiversity, and are in Accra in the Greater-Accra Region of Ghana. The target population was all permanent staff of NGOs in Accra who are into biodiversity. However, the accessible population was all spending officers including management staff, project coordinators, field officers and finance/account/audit staff of the organisations. The to...
ABSTRACT This dissertation explored the extent to which information and communication technology (ICT) is used in Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) and how staff are trained to use ICT in the performance of their functions. It further examined how staff‟s ICT training needs are assessed as well as the prospects and challenges of ICT training in SSNIT and how these could be turned round for the benefit of SSNIT. The research was conducted at the head office of SSNIT (Pensi...
ABSTRACT In this study, an attempt was made to investigate the extent of effect of orientation programmes on the job performance of employees at Ghana library Authority. Using survey design, the study employed a two stage sampling technique to select respondents for this work. At the first stage a simple random sampling technique was used to select 5 regional libraries including Greater Accra, Central, Western, Ashanti and Eastern Regional Libraries. At the second stage 241 respondents were s...
ABSTRACT The Kwawus are from the Eastern Region of Ghana. They are traditionally known to be people with good business acumen which has also its historical basis. They are also known for protecting and maintaining their culture wherever they migrated to, and marriage and mate selection is one of them. It is expected that as people migrate to urban centres most of their traditional lifestyles change as a result of their exposure to people from different cultural and ethnic background. However,...