ABSTRACT A number of studies have been conducted regarding workload and have established some correlation between workload and health worker outcomes. The present study sort to examine the relationship between clinical workload and health worker (nurses, midwives and doctors) performance at the Ridge Hospital, using quality of output as indicator for performance. Specifically, the study sort to examine workload levels, examine factors influencing workload and test the relationship between cl...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the level of financial literacy among business owners within the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly. It also identified the factors affecting the level of financial literacy among small and medium businesses. Questionnaires were developed and administered to 100 selected business owners within the study area. Multiple Regression analysis was performed to test for the relationship between factors that affects people’s financial literacy. Results indicate that maj...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to explore or find out the challenges foster students encounter in a bid to achieve satisfactory basic education.The descriptive cross sectional design was used. The target population for the study was 689 foster students and 2,689 non foster students. A sample of 210 respondents was selected from foster and non - foster students using the simple random sampling technique. Questionnaires were used to gather the data on the variables selected for the stu...
ABSTRACT This study was purposed to investigate the effect of leadership behaviors on employee performance. Specifically, the study identified the leadership behaviors exhibited by managers in Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited (GGBL) in enhancing employee performance and specific behaviors that affected the performance of the employees. The study was conducted with the effect of three main leadership behaviors in mind, namely, job-centeredness style, people centeredness style and democratic ...
ABSTRACT Knowledge management have gained much prominence in recent years and is said to improve organizational performance. However, the effects of knowledge management practices on employees performance are not well known especially in the case of telecommunication companies in Kumasi, Ghana. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of knowledge management practices on performance of employees of telecommunication companies in Kumasi, Ghana. This was a case study in which data...
Abstract This study set out to investigate the relationship between breastfeeding and the nutritional status of children in Ghana. This stems from the fact that in spite of conflicting research findings on the benefits of prolonged breastfeeding, there is intensive breastfeeding compaign going on in the country. The 1998 GDHS data set was used in this study. Specifically, data on breastfeeding and other child feeding practices, childhood illnesses and anthropometry as well as some backgr...
The importance of credit demand cannot be overemphasised given its potential positive influence on individuals’ livelihood and economic growth of countries. In spite of the financial sector liberalisation in Ghana, some individuals still face financial constraints which make it difficult to cover up their spending gap. This paper investigates whether individuals’ socio-demographic and economic characteristics are important in loan demand. A simple random sampling technique was used to sel...
Abstract The role of social and demographic variables in influencing barriers to health improvement among Alberta immigrants and the Alberta general population was assessed in this study. Data were sourced from the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) Cycle 1 of 2001. Using logistic regression analysis, it was found that job status played significant role in influencing barriers to improving immigrants’ health. Among the general Alberta population, however, immigrant status, sex and mar...
ABSTRACT International reserves of West African countries rose sharply by 84.3% between 1991 and 2001 and 287.1% between 2001 and 2011. However, due to high macroeconomic instability in the form of persistent asymmetric shocks, output variability and fiscal policy distortions, the reserves were inadequate and the countries in the sub-region are continually faced with the problem of balancing the costs and benefits from reserves holdings. Previous studies have paid little attention to the fac...
ABSTRACT Alternative livelihoods programmes (ALPs) have been adopted as an alternative form of livelihoods for people whose original means of livelihood have been taken for other purposes. ALPs have been seen as viable option for people of the under privileged class. However, despite the increasing importance of ALPs in Ghanaian mining communities especially in the Obuasi Municipality, little studies have been conducted to assess the real impacts of the ALPs on the livelihood of the inhabita...
ABSTRACT This study explored the influence Training and development (T&D) on employee performance within the Minerals Commission of Ghana by focusing on three regions. The specific objectives were to assess employee development policies of the Minerals Commission; to examine the forms of training with its perceived benefits at the commission; Examine the influence of T&D on the performance of employees and finally, to assess the challenges of training and development programmes at the Commis...
ABSTRACT Studies have established mixed results on the relationship between financial market development and foreign direct investment. However, governance has been identified in literature to influence both financial market development and foreign direct investment, yet no study has considered the interacting of financial market development, governance and foreign direct investment. Thus, this study is of the view that governance could probably influence the relationship between financial m...
ABSTRACT This study sought to determine public leadership behaviours’ influence on innovative work behaviour within the six metropolitan assemblies in Ghana and the role of organisational climate in mediating such a nexus. The study adopted a quantitative approach and the simple random sampling technique was used to collect data from 314 staff of the Kumasi, Cape Coast, Accra, Sekondi-Takoradi, Tema and Tamale metropolitan assemblies through self-administered questionnaires. Partial Least ...
ABSTRACT This study sought to determine the effect of real effective exchange rate on economic growth in Ghana using annual data for the period 1984 to 2014. The study employed the Auto Regressive Distributed Lag Estimation technique as well as the Bounds Testing approach to cointegration to establish a long run relationship between Economic Growth and Real Effective Exchange Rate in Ghana. The result suggests that real exchange rate, capital stock, and labour force exert a positive and stat...
ABSTRACT The study examined the effect of public expenditure on unemployment in Ghana using annual data for the period 1980 to 2016 by employing Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach to co-integration. The study revealed that there is an inverse relationship between government consumption expenditure and unemployment rate. However, government capital expenditure and unemployment rate were found to be positively related. The study therefore established that the threshold of governmen...