ABSTRACT The performance and survival of any industry in a rapidly changing environment, among other factors, depends largely upon the internal control systems (ICS) put in place. Given the critical role that ICS play in every industry, the study sought to examine the effect of ICS on performance of companies in the Ghanaian insurance industry. The five variables of ICS developed by the Committee of Sponsoring Organisations (COSO) were used as independent variables whereas the dependent vari...
ABSTRACT This work was designed find out the extent to which leadership styles affect the commitment level of staff of the Eastern Regional Hospital, Koforidua. The study used a stratified sampling technique, where the respondents were grouped to form homogeneous strata being senior and junior staff. Systematic sampling was then used to select respondents from each stratum. A sample of one hundred and ten (110) employees was selected from a total population of eight hundred and twenty-seven ...
ABSTRACT Currently, the Kabakaba West Reserve is managed by the Municipal Forestry Department with little or no involvement of the surrounding communities. The non-participation of the adjoining communities in the management of the reserve has led to encroachment on the reserve by these communities leading to the degradation of the forest. The main purpose of this study was to assess the extent to which the communities surrounding the reserve have been involved in the management of the reser...
ABSTRACT There is an unpopular belief among Ghanaian workers that proceeding on retirement, especially in the Ghana Education Service, connotes sentencing oneself to impecuniousness due to ill-preparation and poor condition of service. The problem is compounded by volatile capital markets, rising medical-care costs and low saving rates among the working populace, making retirement behaviour and policy a major concern. The main objective of the study was to assess the state of retirement plan...
ABSTRACT This study empirically examines the relationship between stock market performance and economic growth in Ghana using quarterly time series data from 1991 to 2012 for four stock market performance indicators, namely; stock market capitalization ratio, stock market turnover ratio, total value traded ratio and the Ghana Stock Exchange market index with three other control variables. The study employed the Johansen and Juselius (1990) multivariate co-integration technique and vector err...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of employing training and development on job performance at Quality Control Company Limited (QCCL). The study argues that when the employee is given the right level of training at the right time and in a conducive environment, the employee will absorb the content of the training and that would help shape his/her skills in performing his/ her task in the workplace. The study assessed the training needs of the employees and how such...
ABSTRACT Children under five years are known to be more vulnerable and susceptible to nutritional deficiencies and malnutrition worldwide than any other group of people. Child malnutrition especially is responsible for over a million direct and indirect causes of death worldwide. The effects are even higher in developing countries. It was against this backdrop that the purpose of this study found out the feeding practices and nutritional status of children in Ampain refugee camp in Ghana. A ...
ABSTRACT The role of Credit unions in Ghana cannot be overemphasized. This motivated the researcher to investigate and establish the impact of credit union operations on its members’ development. To achieve this, quantitative approach through the use of explanatory design was adopted. Questionnaires with reliability alpha coefficient of .806 were used to collect responses from selected respondents. The data were analysed with the help of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS ver...
ABSTRACT The study examined the training and its challenges to hospital employees under the Ghana Health Service of the Trauma Hospital at Winneba in the Central Region. The case study research design was adopted for the study. Through the use of census sampling and the simple random sampling procedures 60 hospital employees were selected to participate in the study. The questionnaire was used to gather the requisite data for the study. The data were analyzed through the computation of desc...
ABSTRACT The Auditor General of Ghana’s reports on the public accounts of Ghana takes a direction of consistently reporting of malpractices. The role of internal auditors in preventing these occurrences constantly comes into the spotlight. Other researchers found that internal auditors devoted less time to productive activities. The study therefore sought to evaluate the quality of internal audit in the quasi-public sector institutions in preventing mass financial malpractices. Specific at...
ABSTRACT The study set out to evaluate the staff development and training policy of the Bank of Ghana. A descriptive and cross-sectional survey was adopted to study 47 employees of the Tamale Branch of Bank of Ghana. The categories of staff studied covered employees from Banking, Issue, Research, General Service, and Administration. These groups comprised the sources of primary data for the study. The completed questionnaires were subjected to reliability test using SPSS version 16. Frequenc...
ABSTRACT Employee turnover has been one high-handed problem that the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice has been grappling with. This problem affected all calibre of staff, thereby giving rise to staff shortages, resulting in the overburdening of the remaining staff and poor work delivery. The study set out to examine the causes of employee turnover, its effects on the operational mandates of the CHRAJ and to explore opportunities for attaining staff retention in the CHRAJ....
ABSTRACT The general objective of the study was to explore the savings and investment behaviour of rural families in the Ho Municipality of Ghana. The study was conducted using 160 rural households in four rural communities in the Ho Municipality. Interviews were used to collect data from the sampled families. Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient, chi-square and percentages were used to analyse the data collected. It was found that the savings and investment among rural families...
ABSTRACT The financial development of many Sub-Saharan African countries over the years has not been able to match up with other regions like the Middle East and North Africa, East Asia and Pacific, and Europe and central Asia (IMF, 2016). Trade openness has been argued in several empirical literature as a factor that could spur up the level of financial development, although the high levels of trade openness in Sub-Saharan Africa is not contributing much to the desired levels of financial de...
ABSTRACT This study sought to address the determinants of work-family conflict among female teachers and how it affects their job satisfaction. The specific objectives of the study were to identify the determinants of work-family conflict; assess the differences between work-family conflict among married and unmarried female teachers; and examine the effect of work-family conflict on satisfaction of female teachers. A total of 250 respondents were used for the study. The lottery method of th...