ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to find out how stress affects senior members in some selected public Universities in Ghana and the management strategies that can be adopted to influence their work performance. A total of 300 participants were randomly selected from two public Universities in Ghana namely; University of Cape Coast and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. A 34 item questionnaire were designed and administered. The research data was analyzed using the SPSS...
ABSTRACT The study assessed the impact of training on staff performance in the Audit Service of Ghana in some selected Districts in the Central Region of Ghana. The descriptive and cross-sectional designs were adopted in the study and representative sample sizes of 100 employees were selected from the study. Self-developed questionnaire was used as a data collection tool. The descriptive statistics was used to analyse the data including means, standard deviations, frequencies and percentages...
ABSTRACT Usually the organisation of training and development programmes for staff in institutions are carefully planned. This study is an investigation into the effectiveness of training and development programmes for State Insurance Company (SIC) staff within the Accra Metropolis. The general objective of the study was to explore the effectiveness of training and development programmes for the employees. Based on this general objective, five research questions were answered. A 37-item quest...
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This project could not have been accomplished without the contributions of my able supervisor Dr. Kwabena Barima Antwi of the Department of Geography and Regional Planning, University of Cape Coast, whose comments, perceptive and constructive suggestions bestowed on the script have greatly improved and putting the script in a better perspective. My sincere thanks go to all those who provided constructive comments and advice which have greatly contributed positively to the tex...
ABSTRACT Human resources refer to the individuals who comprise the workforce of an organization, although it is also applied in labour economics, for example, business sectors or even whole nations. The recruitment of staff into NHIS is believed to be on party lines without adherence to good human resource management practices. The study was, therefore, conducted to assess the human resource management practices within the National Health Insurance Scheme in the Brong Ahafo region and to draw...
ABSTRACT The study set out to examine to explore the impact of working conditions and performance among non-teaching senior staff at the University of Education Winneba. The specific objectives that guided the study were; to assess the effects of physical conditions on performance of the non-teaching senior staff; to analyse the effects of occupational health and safety on the performance of the non-teaching senior staff; to analyse the effects of internal organisational communication on perf...
ABSTRACT Acquiring money through honest means is what God approves. This is required of members of society in the pursuit of wealth, riches and material possessions. It is for this reason that the Reverend John Wesley, founder of Methodism, dedicated time and attention to educate his followers, and by extension all others to let the principles of honesty guide them in the pursuit of riches. The study sought to examine the attitudes of Christians towards money. Specifically, the study sought t...
ABSTRACT The impetus for this study arose from the concern, which has grown in recent times over the positive and possible negative impact of the activities of Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) on rural, community and national development. It was thus the overall aim of this study to examine the extent to which the activities of NGOs, in terms of the provision of water have been accepted by the communities in which they are working. Specifically, the study focused on the level of communit...
ABSTRACT Some literature of health insurance indicate that it is a private or public system of protection against the losses owing to medical expenses, or a method of providing for members of a defined group or community with protection against the cost of medical care. The national health insurance scheme has been identified as the more humane, efficient and sustainable means of financing healthcare in low-income countries, especially where a large percentage of the population are in the inf...
ABSTRACT Human resource makes tremendous contributions toward the success of every organisation. As such, managing human resource performance is currently one of the key activities undertaken by heads or authorities of these institutions. This can largely be achieved through the implementation of performance management system which ensures constant evaluation and improvement in employee performance. The study examined the effect of performance management system on employee performance at La D...
ABSTRACT This study is aimed to explore the training and development processes and post training performance of employees in public organisation. The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice was used as a case study. In order to test two contrasting theories on training, the study set out to investigate of the relationship between training/development processes and post training performance of CHRAJ. The sample consists of one hundred and seventeen employees of CHRAJ in the Grea...
ABSTRACT This study was undertaken to find out the underlying reasons and effects of labour turnover among the Licensed Buying Companies (LBCs) operating in the Bia District of the Western Region of Ghana. The reason being that, the Ghanaian cocoa industry suffer devastating consequences of alarming rates of labour turnover. The employees have therefore been experiencing frequent job loss/job change. Accordingly, the hope of the researcher is that the result of this study will serve as a use...
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 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 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...