ABSTRACT Employees constitute an essential resource for every organization. Just as employers are particular about ensuring the input of employees to achieve their goals, it is equally important that the conditions of work of employees are favourable enough to ensure responsive inputs. The study aimed at comparing the extent to which employee motivation and job satisfaction promote productivity among staff of Sam Jonah and Osagyefo libraries and the various strategies adopted by management of...
ABSTRACT This study explores the use of smartphones for investigative journalism by participants in an Africa Center for International Law and Accountability (ACILA) -Tiger Eye Project of using smartphones to fight corruption. The study seeks to find out how investigative journalists, who participated in the special training project on investigative journalism, are using smartphones in their line of work. Existing literature has established that professionals in various fields have been using...
ABSTRACT This thesis explores the language of a three year old Safaliba-speaking child from a phonological perspective. The findings of this work are largely based on primary data collected during a two month field-work between December 2014 and January 2015. Primary data was collected by means of elicitation: interviews and discussions recorded using an audio sound recorder. Native speaker intuition was relied on for gathering, transcribing, and analysing the data. Even though the study is d...
ABSTRACT A number of Church documents and Church leaders have underscored the need for couples to undergo adequate preparation before they receive the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony. The Pontifical Council for the Family in its document, “Marriage Preparation”, stresses the necessity for dioceses to publish a Directory/Document and establish a Commission for Marriage Preparation and the Pastoral Care of the Family. Pope Francis in his encyclical letter, Amoris Laetitia, acknowledges that the...
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 In an effort to reduce poverty in Ghana, the Government designed a National Social Protection Strategy (NSPS) in 2008, with a cash transfer component known as the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP). Under the LEAP, vulnerable members of households are identified and caregivers are given cash support to supplement their incomes in order to improve care for the vulnerable members of their households. This study was conducted to: i) examine changes in the occupations and asse...
ABSTRACT Stalls in fertility transition have been observed in many Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, including Ghana. This stalling fertility, defy the Demographic Transition Theory and have attracted the research attention. Current studies seeking to unravel the causes of the stalling fertility have been inconclusive. Changes in the timing and prevalence of marriage are areas that call for attention because total fertility rate is a function of the age composition of the proportion ever m...
ABSTRACT The objective of this paper was to determine the probability and extent of loan delinquency among Credit unions in Ghana. The independent double hurdle model was used to analyze primary data collected from 300 loan beneficiaries of 30 Credit Unions that are under the Accra Chapter of the Credit Union association of Ghana (CUA). Based on the regression results it was found that among the variables that were considered, only four out of eleven variables significantly influenced the pro...
ABSTRACT Internal migration in Ghana has attracted a great deal of research attention and inspired by demographers and other social scientists. This is attributed to the implication that the movement can pose on the economy. People of the savannah regions of Ghana have had a long history of movement into other part of the country. Some of the reasons accounting for this phenomenon can be traced to different ecological zones in Ghana. As a result, people move from these areas into another par...
ABSTRACT In spite of the numerous efforts being made by researchers within the agricultural sector to link farmers with improved and modern methods of farming, there are still a lot of farmers operating at subsistence levels. This research examines an additional rather than a substitutional means to assist in the effective linkage of agricultural research and processes to farmers in Ghana. This is done by exploring how Theatre (using Theatre for Development processes) can be used as a vehic...
Abstract The “advent of Open Source Software has provided low cost opportunities for libraries to transit from traditional to technology-based library services, which also gives room for more efficient service provision. This study investigated the use of Open Source Software in the Sam Jonah library, University of Cape Coast. The study adopted the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT). The study was based on survey research methodology and questionnaire was used to gat...
ABSTRACT The Importance of African Literature in a Class Teaching French as a Foreign Language (FFL) in Ghanaian universities. Ghana's geographical position in relation to the surrounding French-speaking countries could be one of the main reasons for teaching/learning French. Learning a foreign language not only enables the acquisition of language competence but also provides a means of bringing the learner into contact with other realities of life, other social values, other forms and ways ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study is to investigate susceptible risk activities of insurers from the new risk-based supervision framework and determining whether a significant difference exists between the inherent risk exposures of insurers and their risk management control functions. The development of better and effective strategies for prioritizing resources as a way improving the financial health of insurance companies coupled with risk management controls to avoid insurers’ insolvency...
ABSTRACT Whilst there are claims that women in Ghana are involved in alcohol consumption behaviours that pose threats to the maternal health and social development of the country, extensive empirical research in Ghana to confirm these claims are unknown. Using a quantitative data sample of 548 women from the EDULINK Urban Health and Poverty wave II project, the study specifically examined the prevalence and socio-economic and demographic factors affecting alcohol use among women in Ghana. The...
ABSTRACT The study examined how Ghana could harness its the potentials of is Diaspora to complement its development efforts. One of the biggest diasporas in recent times is that of the African diaspora or more specifically the Sub-Saharan diaspora. It used both primary and secondary sources to review, since independence, how successive governments have exploited the potentials of Ghana’s rich Diaspora in their development agenda. It uncovered that the diaspora constitutes one of the most r...