ABSTRACT The study involved a multivariate correlational design which investigated the influence of work-family conflict, stress and family supportive supervisor behavior on employee creativity. Data were collected from fourteen (14) branches of a public sector bank in the Accra metropolis using adapted versions of Scales for Work Family Conflict , Family Supportive Supervisor Behaviours (Hammer et al., 2009), Creativity (Zhou & George, 2001) and Stress (Cohen et al., 1983). Findings showed t...
ABSTRACT This study examined the influence of gender role ideology and work life balance on career success of women. The study adapted the concurrent mixed method design. Two hundred and eighty-one (281) career women comprising of bankers and teachers in the greater Accra region of Ghana were purposively sampled and used for the quantitative approach. For the qualitative phase, one-on-one interviews were conducted with fourteen (14) purposively sampled career women. The quantitative study res...
ABSTRACT This study was conducted to investigate the impact of safety climate and organizational learning on employees’ safety risk behaviour in the oil and gas industry in Ghana. A total sample of 140 employees was conveniently selected to serve as respondents for the study. The quantitative cross-sectional research design was employed. Standardized measures were employed to assess employees’ perception of safety climate, organizational learning, and their risk behaviours. The independen...
ABSTRACT This study sought to examine the influence of psychological contract breach (PCB) on employees’ affective, continuance and normative commitment. It also examined leader-member exchange (LMX) as a moderator of the relationship between PCB and the dimensions of organizational commitment. Job embeddedness (JE) and organization-based self-esteem (OBSE) were also examined as mediators of this relationship. Two hundred and ninety-eight (298) teachers were conveniently sampled from both p...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the relationship between job satisfaction and psychological wellbeing among contract staff in banking institutions. The moderating role of organisational climate on the relationship between job satisfaction and psychological wellbeing was also assessed as well as the extent to which job insecurity moderates the relationship between job satisfaction and psychological wellbeing. Lastly, the study examined the moderating role of tenure on the relationship between ...
ABSTRACT The study examined how psychological capital and achievement motivation predict work engagement among micro and small-scale entrepreneurs in Accra. One hundred and seventy-one (171) micro and small-scale entrepreneurs operating small IT firms, beauty parlour, food businesses, wood businesses, construction and plumbing, retail shops, event planning and decorations, management consulting firms, fashion businesses, poultry farming, cold stores, auto mechanic businesses, shoemaking busin...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the influence of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) on team innovation and the moderating role of power distance and collectivism in small and medium sized (SMEs) enterprises. Two hundred and two participants from 32 SMEs organizations in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana were used. A cross sectional study design was employed. Having in mind that, the entrepreneurial orientation construct has been considered as being present throughout the organizational structur...
ABSTRACT The downstream oil and gas sector is growing at an increasing rate in Ghana. This growth has come with a cost regarding public safety. Various gas explosions have occurred in Ghana leading to injuries, loss of life, and destruction of properties. However, there is little research investigating this problem. The study investigated the interaction between safety climate perception and safety behaviour among fuel station attendants. A self-report survey was used in collecting data from ...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the moderating role of intragroup trust and team transformational leadership on the relationship between team psychological safety and learning behaviour in teams. Fifty seven work teams comprising four hundred and fifty six respondents in teams of seven to nine members were purposively sampled from five financial institutions in Accra. Ghana. Team members completed questionnaires on Team Psychological Safety (Edmondson. 1999). Intragroup trust (Simons & Peters...
ABSTRACT Universities have unique features from regular business entities. However, like any other organisation the environment in which they operate is constantly changing, and they need to change not only to survive but to compete successfully to achieve set objectives. This study examines universities and how they achieve success in change implementation, given their culture and readiness for change tendencies. A total of 528 participants made up of academic and non-teaching staff, as well...
ABSTRACT Job insecurity has become a critical phenomenon for discussion in the heightened harsh economic state of most organisations where certainty to long-term employment cannot be guaranteed. On the basis of this, the purpose of the study was to determine the relationship between job insecurity, psychological wellbeing and safety compliance. The moderating effect of employee empowerment between job insecurity and psychological well-being, as well as the relationship between job insecurity ...
ABSTRACT The study examined the relationship between succession planning, employee retention and organisational effectiveness among some selected organisations in Ghana. It further examined the effect of career development program on the relationship between succession planning and employee retention and also on the relationship between succession planning and organisational effectiveness. One hundred and eighty-eight (188) respondents were conveniently sampled from four organisations; two f...