ABSTRACT Unlike Small and Medium−Sized Enterprises (SMEs), large enterprises have continued enjoying the benefits of the use of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs). This is one situation that has affected SMEs development including those in the Birim Central Municipality. It was based on this rationale that a study was undertaken mainly to assess ICTs in SMEs activities in the Birim Central Municipality. The specific objectives of the study were to examine the preferred type of IC...
ABSTRACT This study investigated how graduate students in the four Departments of Faculty of Foreign Languages Education and Communication (FFLEC) use new media technologies. The students were purposively sampled from the four Departments in FFLEC and interviewed. The study adopted the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) and Technology Appropriation Model to properly contextualize the research. The graduate students were of the view that the social connection provided...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of employee training and development on the performance of senior staff of University of Energy and Natural Resources. Employee training has been viewed as a tool for better productivity, general workforce skill development and motivation. The descriptive survey design was employed for the study. Data was collected using questionnaire to select a total of 47 respondents (senior staff, administrators) for the study. The data was anal...
ABSTRACT The aim of this dissertation is to discover the impact of teaching and learning of pronunciation on reading and speaking skills of students in Asikuma in the Asuogyaman District in the Eastern Region of Ghana. Specifically, it investigates the impact of teaching segmental and suprasegmental features on reading and speaking, impact of pronunciation teaching methods and ICT tools on reading and speaking and teachers‟ and students‟ perception on teaching and learning of pronunciat...
ABSTRACT This research sought to assess the effectiveness of conflict resolution measures in secondary schools using a study of selected senior high schools in the Atwima Nwabiagya District in the Ashanti region of Ghana. The target population for the research comprised all employees (both teaching and non-teaching staff) and students of four selected schools. These four schools were Barekese Senior High School, Osei Tutu Senior High School, Toase Senior High School and Nkawie Secondary Tec...
ABSTRACT This study was conducted to assess the impact of job rotation on employee performance in a public tertiary institution in Ghana. Organizational success largely depends on efficiency of employees and this makes it compelling for organization to strive to continuously adopt methods to update the skills, abilities and build on the competencies of existing staff to increase their performances for the firm to achieve its goals and objective and to gain competitive advantage. The concept o...
ABSTRACT This study, explored teachers’ perception on implementation of the National Literacy Acceleration Programme (NALAP) in Basic Lower Primary Schools in Wiawso circuit of Sefwi Wiawso Municipality. This was necessary because, it had been observed that the problem with reading, understanding and writing in these schools had been further complicated by issues regarding the teaching of the Language and Literacy subject which emanated from the NALAP. The study was designed in the framew...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to identify the impact of parental involvement on academic engagement of female Senior High School students in Bosomtwe District in Ashanti Region. The study population comprised of all 175 female students, but the response rate was 150. The study analysis was based on 150 female students and 75 parents. Questionnaire which was in the form of a likert scale, ranging from strongly disagree (1) to strongly agree (5) was used to collect data. The reliabil...
ABSTRACT The health care industry in Ghana involves the continual introduction of new clinical interventions and technologies designed to improve patient and business outcomes, which require a transformational behavior of leadership. The research was carried out with the intention of examining the employee’s perception of the effect of transformational leadership on institutional innovation. The research adopted descriptive survey design. The target population was 400 comprising all the e...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of training on employee performance in selected Senior High Schools in the Atwima Nwabiagya District of the Ashanti Region of Ghana. The objectives of the study were to find out the existence of on-the-job training for teachers in Senior High Schools, find out the effect of training on teachers’ performance in Senior High Schools and to establish the factors that affect effective employee performance. A descriptive survey design ...
ABSTRACT This thesis examines Rorty’s pragmatic approach to epistemology. Rorty criticizes foundationalism for relying on the optical metaphor that sees knowledge as grounded in the given of sense impression. He also criticizes the enterprise for relying on absolute truth which is untenable. Sellar’s critique of the notion of the given and Quine’s attack on analytic synthetic dichotomy are by implication sufficient to show that foundationalism is misguided. According to Rorty, the idea ...
ABSTRACT The choice of a language for communication in a multilingual community has to be examined in the light of sociolinguistic factors. The study is centred on the real factors that influence language use in a multilingual environment bearing in mind the background of the participants involved in the communication and the linguistic competences of the speakers? The research is based on the ideas from theoreticians like Labov (variationnism), Hymes (Communicative competence) and Weinreich ...
ABSTRACT Forest reserves in Kabwe have undergone changes over the years due to encroachment by humans who are engaged in activities as such agriculture, charcoal production and even settlements. This has led to the deforestation of Kalulu Forest in Kabwe district of Central province. The main objective of this study was to establish causes of human encroachment of Kalulu Forest. The study was conducted through both qualitative and quantitative approaches. Primary and secondary data was collec...
ABSTRACT This study investigated disaster risk preparedness strategies against fire at Chisokone market in Kitwe, Zambia. The aim of the study was to analyse disaster risk preparedness strategies against fire at Chisokone market in Kitwe to ensure safety at the trading place. The objectives were to identify fire risks at Chisokone market in Kitwe. To establish disaster risk preparedness strategies against fire at Chisokone market in Kitwe. To determine the challenges being faced in implementi...
ABSTRACT The main objective of this study was to investigate how the Daily Graphic, Ghana’s most credible and widely circulated paper and the Mirror, Ghana’s number one weekend paper covered tourism in 2013 and 2014. Framing and agenda-setting theories were used to underpin the study. The composite week method was used to draw a sample of 104 out of a universe of 628 editions of the Daily Graphic for content analysis while all 104 editions of the Mirror were content analysed. Straight new...