ABSTRACT Effectively managing human capital is very critical to organisations today. This has strategic implications for businesses that want to gain a competitive advantage over others. HR analytics is gaining widespread attention in businesses with the goal of increasing their competitiveness. This study, therefore, sought to investigate the implications of HR analytics on human resource management practice in Ghana. Adopting a qualitative approach to research, twenty organisations were pu...
ABSTRACT This study aims to examine the dimensions of organisational justice that best predict employee trust; and the dimensions of organisational justice that best predict employee productivity. The study used a quantitative approach and data were gathered from 211 respondents through the use of a questionnaire. Convenience sampling techniques was used to select both the five Ghanaian higher education institutions and the respondents for the study. The data gathered was analysed using Sta...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to explore the turnover intention of employees in the hotel industry using Job Embeddedness as a mediator of its relationship with HRM practices. The study used job embeddedness, to investigate its mediation effect on the relationship between employees‟ turnover intention and three areas of human resource practices (Recruitment and Selection, Training and Development, Rewards and Benefits). Stratified, purposive and convenience sampling methods were ado...
ABSTRACT This study introduces perceived organizational support (POS) as a moderating variable to provide some explanations to the possible relationship between emotional labour, emotional intelligence and job attitudes among nurses and midwives in Ghana. The study employed a sequential explanatory mixed-method approach (QUAN-qual), a cross-sectional design and proportionately sampled three hundred and forty-two (342) nurses and midwives from six public and quasi-public health facilities in t...
ABSTRACT Most part of the safety literature indicates that employees fashion their safety-related behaviours in accordance with the perceived climate. This present study examined three dimensions of safety climate (management commitment to safety, priority of safety on plant and pressure for production). The aim of the study was to examine whether the pressure placed on the power generation companies in Ghana as a result of the erratic power supply (‘Dumsor’) has implications for employe...
ABSTRACT The concept of leader integrity has become topical as part of the call for positive organizational research. In an attempt to explore the meaning of this character strength in leaders and how it influences employee outcomes, this study employed the use of robust methodology to examine how leader integrity predicts the citizenship behaviour and counterproductive work behaviour of civil servants in Ghana. The concurrent embedded mixed method design was adopted to subjectively provide...
ABSTRACT Public transport is crucial for the growth of any economy and trade, both of which are highly dependent on the conveyance of people and goods. However, there is, in many cities of developing countries, a major challenge of adjusting the existing system of mobility to the evolving transportation needs of the people. The situation in the Accra Metropolitan area provides a template of the circumstance in most of these city-regions. Against this backdrop, the study investigated the use ...
ABSTRACT It is argued that strategic management practices positively influence the competitiveness of firms. In the light of this the study examines the strategic management behaviors (practices and tools) adopted by firms from emerging markets, using Ghana as a case study. To address this issue, literature was extensively reviewed out of which a conceptual model consisting of a sample of key strategic management practices and tools that enhance firm competitiveness was adapted and validated...
ABSTRACT Several studies have been conducted on training and organisational commitment in Western and Asian countries, but not much has been done in Sub-Saharan African countries, and particularly in the pensions industry in Ghana. This study fills this gap by conducting a theoretical analysis and empirical examination of the role of training in facilitating employees‘ commitment in the Ghanaian pensions industry. Additionally, the study contributes to human resource management practice reg...
ABSTRACT The main aim of this study was to assess how leaders’ emotional intelligence influence the creativity of employees in indigenous Ghanaian banks. Moreover, the study examined how employee voice acts as a mediator for the leaders’ emotional intelligence-employee creativity relationship. Specifically, the objectives of the study were to examine the relationship between leaders emotional intelligence and employee creativity in indigenous Ghanaian banks; to determine the relationship ...
ABSTRACT Purpose - The purpose of this study is to compare the performance of selected West African countries regarding their attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The study used the Extended Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) as the main framework. This is because TOPSIS creates room for the incorporation of the three dimensions of sustainability-social, economic and environmental to establish a threshold below which a country is deeme...
ABSTRACT Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become an integral part of business practice over the last decade and this has led many corporations to dedicate a section of their annual reports and corporate websites to CSR activities. Although extant literature with regard to CSR has examined a number of themes such as the link between CSR and financial performance, very few studies have been conducted on CSR and Competitive Advantage (CA). As such, this paper was aimed at identifying ...
ABSTRACT The sustainable environment has become an important issue in global development as a result of recurrent instability in the interaction among environmental, economic and social systems. Different policy directives and interventions have therefore been championed for promoting a balance in these systems. Key among them is education for a sustainable environment, identified to contribute knowledge, skills and attitudes required to bring about a change. In spite of these, a sustainable ...
ABSTRACT The study was designed to assess the challenges pertaining to the adoption and implementation of Affirmative Action Practices and their impact on Female Empowerment in some selected Tertiary Institution in Ghana. The universities used for the study were, The University of Ghana, Legon (UG), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and the University of Education, Winneba (UEW). The study adopted the qualitative research approach, using explanatory and descriptive r...
ABSTRACT This study sought to compare leadership emergence and engagement among leaders of charismatic and historic mission churches in Ghana. A combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches were used for the study. The qualitative technique was used to explore the differences in leadership emergence among the leaders of charismatic and historic mission churches. On the other hand, quantitative technique was used to assess the differences in leadership engagement. In all, four hundr...