This work is designed to examine the problem of academic stress among students of the University of Cape Coast, School of Business, its causes and ways of controlling it to enhance the students’ performance. The objective of this study is to examine the effect of stress on the academic performance of University of Cape Coast, School of Business students and the associated risk when stress is not managed properly. To achieve this objective, three (3) research questions were tested and the li...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of training programmes on the performance of administrative staff of public universities in Ghana, a case study of the University of Education, Winneba, College of Technology Education (COLTEK). The study used descriptive research design. Quantitative research approach was used. The study population encompasses all the staff of the company. The population size of the company is approximately four hundred and six (406). Random sampli...
ABSTRACT The main purpose of this study was to assess the causes of illegal water connection and the impact on the performance of Ghana Water Company in production, billing and revenue generation in Ashanti North Region. The researcher used descriptive research design for the study. Quantitative and qualitative research approaches were used. The population was made up of the staff and customers of Ghana Water Company in the Ashanti Region. The total population for the study was Nine Thousand ...
ABSTRACT The main purpose of the study was to assess human resources management practices in recruitment and selection and how it impacts on organisational performance, using COLTEK as a case study. This study used survey research design. Quantitative research approach was used. The target population was the administrative staff of the College of Technology Education, Kumasi comprising of 150 staff. Random sampling method was used to select 108 respondents for the study. Questionnaire was the...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to assess the effect of work-life balance policies on stress management: a case study of some selected National Health Insurance Schemes within the Kumasi Metropolis. The objectives of the study were to asses the worklife balance policies and their effects on stress management and to find out the effects of stress on job performance of selected National Health Insurance schemes/offices within the Kumasi Metropolis.The descriptive research design was used...
ABSTRACT Trade Union (TU) organizes for protection and promotion of the interest of their members in particular and workers in general. It pursues the broad objective of steady employment, which is something the employer may not be able to generate to the workers. Achievement of this aspiration may, therefore, involve workers in political actions, through their unions, for maintenance of full employment. The general objective of the study was to establish the effects of trade union on ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study is to assess the impact of Training and Development (T & D) on the performance of employees in the Judicial Service. The study concentrates primarily on the employees of the Kumasi High Courts. The study was guided by three (3) objectives which were to find out if there are any T & D programmes for employees in the Judicial Service, Kumasi, to find out the relationship between T and D in the Judicial Service, Kumasi and finally to assess the impact of ...
ABSTRACT Innovation in a company’s products, in addition to product introduction, has been the main factor to differentiate product from competitors’ offerings, and has played an important role in marketing, whilst it is considered as the main selling factor. The main objective of the study is to examine the impact of innovation on sales of pharmaceutical products at Kinapharma Ghana Limited. The population for the study consisted of 400 staff members of Kinapharma Ghana Ltd. Two hundre...
ABSTRACT The focus of this research is in the area of performance-appraisals (PA) systems. Performance-appraisal is a key component of Human Resource Management (HRM) in every organization and one of the most vital responsibilities for human-resources and line managers/supervisors. A well-designed and implemented formal PA system can serve many valuable purposes in the manager-subordinate relationship (Longenecker et al., 1988). However, it is often perceived as a cumbersome and destru...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to investigate the management of work place - related stress: the case of the Division of Human Resource Management Unit of UEW, Winneba. A sample of forty-five (45) participants was chosen for the study through simple random technique and purposive sampling techniques. Among others, it was found that: staff of the Human Resource Division of the University of Education, Winneba experience stress as a result of doing so many things within a limit...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to assess human resource planning on organisational behaviour and performance, using the Ghana Education Service as case study. The researcher used descriptive research design for the study. The objectives of the study were to establish the relationship between human resource planning and organisational performance, to identify the strategies use to improve human resource planning and to assess the challenges faced by an organisation in human resour...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to assess the impact of human resource management practices on employees’ commitment: a case of some selected oil marketing companies within the Kumasi Metropolis. Descriptive research design was used for the study. The study used the quantitative research approach. The population for the study was sixtyfive (65) respondents comprising of managers and staff of the selected oil marketing companies in the Kumasi Metropolis. The random sampling procedure ...
Dividend policy is an important aspect of the organization’s corporate policies about which many researchers argued. It has become one of the most debatable topic for researchers due to the vagueness of its theories on the significance of dividend policy while indicating firm’s value. In this competitive environment the challenge to financial experts is to develop a dividend policy aiming at maximizing shareholder’s wealth by efficient utility of investment. So, there is a need to find ...
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.0BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY In Nigeria, empirical report shows that an estimate of about 70% of the industrial employment is held by Small Business Enterprises and more than 50% of the Gross Domestic Product is small business enterprises’ generated (Odeyemi, 2003). Given the seminal role of Small businesses to employment generation in Nigeria, various regimes of Government since independence in the 1960s, have focused on various programmes and spent immense a...
Abstract This study investigated the impact of external debt on economic growth in Nigeria for the period 1980-2015. Time series data on external debt stock and external debt service payment was used to capture external debt burden. Other variables such as exchange rate and Foreign Direct Investment where employed. The study set out to test for both long-run and causal relationship between eternal debt and economic growth in Nigeria. The Multi Linear Regression Method was used, and the techni...