ABSTRACT Non-governmental organisations are vital to the civil society of every country. The growth of NGOs has brought about much development to all societies because their activities usually tend to involve social interventions that fill in the vacuum where governments usually fail. However, recent issues of mismanagement and weak accountability has caused NGOs to lose credence in the eyes of its stakeholders. Thus, this study aims to investigate how NGOs in Ghana undertake their financial ...
ABSTRACT Today leadership has been regarded to have a major influence on the performance of organizations, managers and employees. “As most people are directly or indirectly consciously or unconsciously being influenced or influencing others in the role of leadership, it has been argued that for organizations to achieve business efficiency and economic development, they must adopt leadership styles that best suit their environment This study has examined the impact of leadership behavior on...
ABSTRACT Workplace safety and health is a crucial concern for all—wage earners, employers/management and the society as a whole. This is because workplace injuries and accidents have many ramifications on the life of the individual worker as well as others in society. Consequently, countries, as diverse as they are, have put in place mechanisms to ensure the safety of workers through several administrative, policy and legal instruments. Indeed, today the safety and health of workers is cons...
ABSTRACT Work-life balance is a major concern for people and institutions concerned about the quality of working life relative to the broader quality of life. The study sought to investigate sources, effects and the strategies adopted to manage work-life balance by female administrators in public universities in Ghana. The study adopted the qualitative research design. The study population comprised female administrators in three public universities, representatives of human resource departme...
ABSTRACT The urban population in Ghana keeps increasing with resultant pressures exerted on the resources of the nation and congestion created especially in slums or informal areas. These have caused much pressure on the few facilities especially in the areas of water and sanitation and have contributed to worsening urban poverty. This study analysed the factors influencing householders‟ access to improved water and sanitation facilities in selected low-income urban areas of Accra. The sele...
ABSTRACT There is an increased growth of the use digital financial services in the world. Many banks, financial institutions, savings and loans companies are establishing and implementing the use of these services to bridge financial inclusion. A study was conducted at Zenith Bank Ghana Limited to see the benefit of digital financial services among their clients and its contribution to financial inclusion. This study was done to determine the relationship between financial inclusion and digit...
ABSTRACT This study has primarily sought to examine the effect of macroeconomic volatility on foreign direct investment in Africa. The investigation covers the period between 1980 and 2010 for twenty-nine countries. The main variables of concern were Exchange rate volatility and inflation volatility, GDP Growth volatility and Real interest rate volatility. The ARCH and GARCH Models introduced Engle (1982) and Bollerslev (1986) were used to model the volatility of the variables. The volatile v...
ABSTRACT The study was motivated by the growing innovation in the financial system in recent times. Though the move for innovation in the Ghanaian context has been slow relative to the advancements in developed economies, its impact in bank profitability and efficiency cannot be over emphasized. Hence, this study took the challenge to study the effect of bank innovation on Ghanaian banks’ profitability and efficiency between 2013 and 2017. The study employed a quantitative research approach...
ABSTRACT The mobile phone technology only recently gained its ubiquitous status and rapidity in design and features. The African context is no exception to this, as a result, it is only in the last decade that people have had the opportunity to own and discard various mobile phone handsets. Most studies have not considered the social dimension of the "journey" of owning and discarding the mobile phone handset. Consequently, the study explored the entire process involved in the traders accessi...
ABSTRACT It has been suggested that a key way of enterprise survival is to pursue competitive marketing practices such as branding, which enables firms to differentiate their products and services in the marketplace, and to become more sustainable. However, there have been some erroneous perceptions that branding is a preserve of large businesses and as a result, scholarly evidence suggests that the practice has not gained much attention within SME business settings. The study explores the re...
ABSTRACT The study examined the effect of health insurance on the healthcare utilization of rural farm households in the Akuapem South District of Ghana. A household survey, conducted in 2013, gathered information on 384 farm households using direct interviews. Multinomial logistic regression was used to address factors determining health insurance enrollment. Utilization of healthcare services was operationalized as the choice of healthcare which indicated the type of facility respondents vi...
ABSTRACT Local community participation and sustainability of peri-urban community-based water management encompasses known and unknown challenges. There is a common assumption that sustainable peri-urban water services will be achieved through local community participation. The principle of community-managed water supply system started, to gain its importance in early 1990s with the World Bank and development partners’ sponsored water supply projects. However, local community participation ...
ABSTRACT Policymakers and governments have raised concerns about the rate at which global climate change is occurring. The adverse impact of climate change on the environment and ecosystems has necessitated the formulation of mechanisms to address its effects. Empirical evidence has shown that climate change greatly affects health, water and food supply, and economic growth in Africa. However, given the emerging nature of climate change studies, little research has examined its impact on inco...
Abstract The overall aim of this study was to examine the policies and strategies for the implementation of performance management system at the Ada East District Assembly. The study was conducted using qualitative research approach with interview as its main research instrument. A total of twenty five (25) respondents who doubles as employees of the assembly spanning different department like human resource, physical planning, general administration, budgeting and development planning formed...
ABSTRACT The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has become essential to the operations of government, corporate institutions and individuals, but the benefits accruing from the growing access is being undermined by miscreants who are exploiting its capabilities to the detriment of others. This has tainted Ghana‟s reputation in the global environment. The main thrust of this study was therefore to explore the dynamics of cybercrime activities from the perspectives of offenders, v...