ABSTRACT In Ghana, despite the implementation of pro-poor models to make potable water affordable to small towns and rural communities, there are still cases of extension of urban water services at cost recovery-based tariff conditions to such communities. This defeats the aims of improving affordability and accessibility to safe water to low-income communities. The main objective of this study was to explore stakeholder roles in the improvement of water tariff payment in rural and peri-urb...
ABSTRACT Leadership is a relevant factor in achieving high employee performance. This is because the style of leadership of superiors commits an employee to a course of action of relevance and helps to ensure willingness to perform better in the organization. The study examined the effects of leadership styles on employee performance in the Judicial Service of Ghana, Cape Coast regional office. Descriptive design of the quantitative method of research was employed for the study. The simple r...
ABSTRACT The objective of this study was to examine the issues of motivation on teaching and learning using content and process theories of motivation. Stratified sampling procedures were used to select a sample of 304 respondents. Research instruments for data collection were questionnaire and interview guide with a response rate of 98 percent. Motivation in teaching and learning has adverse effects in raising the moral of teachers and students. Basically, teachers were to encourage studen...
ABSTRACT In this study, the effectiveness of the system of internal control of SIC Life Company Limited is assessed via the famed Internal Control – Integrated Framework by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations (COSO) of the Treadway commission. Forty-one members of staff at the company’s head office in Accra are sampled for the study. Analyses of the responses to the questionnaire indicate that overall the internal control system of the SIC Life company is only marginally strong. Sk...
ABSTRACT Customary land disputes date back as far as the colonial era in Ghana. Customary land disputes have contributed negatively to socio-economic development of Ghana. It is in the light of this that the study looked at the state and nature of customary land disputes in Ghana using Ashanti-Mampong as a case study. The research used both primary and secondary data to find answers to the causes of land disputes, effects of land disputes and measures that are used to resolve these land dis...
ABSTRACT The study examined the influence of motivation, job satisfaction, organisational commitment, and intention to quit teaching among teachers in Public Senior High Schools in Tamale Metropolis. The cross-sectional design was adopted in the study. A representative sample size of 203 was selected for the study using self-administered questionnaires. Descriptive statistics including means, standard deviations, frequencies and percentages were used to summarise the data characteristics. Th...
ABSTRACT Taxation is the major source of revenue to support the execution of government developmental projects. In Ghana, one major sector where more taxes could have collected is the Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) of the informal sector. The sector contributes about 80% to the employment in the country (Ghana living Standard Survey - GLSS, 2010); but, its contribution in terms of tax revenue, relative to its size, is just a drop in the national coffers. The research, therefore, ...
ABSTRACT Organisational politics plays a large role in how most organisations function and develop. Thus, organisational politics is an unavoidable factor at the workplace, and has so many influences on the affairs and behaviour of employees in an organisation. It is in recognition of these facts that an effort was made in this research to find out the causes, prevention and management of organisational politics in Cape Coast Polytechnic. The target population for the study consisted of empl...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to investigate the equity sensitivity and concerns of teachers about the single spine salary. Questionnaires comprising the conventional Equity Sensitivity Instrument and some other typical items on teacher concerns about the single spine salary structure were administered to 129 basic school student teachers of the Institute of Educational Development and Extension (IEDE) at the Cape Coast study centre in the Cape Coast metropolis. Both descriptive and...
ABSTRACT In spite of many decades of development planning and assistance, Ghana still has low sanitation coverage. This study therefore assessed the urban-rural variation in sanitation service delivery in the New Juabeng Municipality. Descriptive study design was adopted, using a mixed method approach to select two communities (Koforidua and Akwadum) to represent urban and rural communities respectively. Systematic and purposive sampling methods were adopted to select respondents for the st...
ABSTRACT This study was conducted on the premise that despite the importance of staff training in the attainment of organisational goals, most organisations do not handle staff training programmes well. The objective of the study was to examine staff training policies in Ghana Statistical Service (GSS), to find out the extent of implementation of such policies if they exist, analyse the implementation of the policies to see if they meet best practice and also ascertain the importance of sta...
ABSTRACT This research investigated the customer-banker relationship and the operations of deposit mobilization and credit delivery at the Kumasi Central Market Branch of Agricultural Development Bank (ADB). The study was set out to examine the customer-banker relationship and the operations of the Kumasi Central Market Branch of ADB in respect of deposit mobilization and credit delivery to customers. The study design was basically descriptive survey and case study type. The population consi...
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the study The provision of quality, adequate, accessible, and affordable healthcare is one of the most important indicators of development (Kocher, 1973). To achieve this, good healthcare facilities must be integral part of health systems and must be provided for the proper functioning of the health systems. Similarly, Sen (2002), stated that health is one of the most important conditions of human life, and a critically significant constituent of hu...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the relationship between foreign direct investment and economic growth in Liberia. The Autoregressive Distributed Lag approach to cointegration was used with annual data from IMF Statistics 2009 CD ROM, WDI. Capital was disaggregated into foreign direct investment and domestic private investment for a more comparative analysis of their impacts on economic growth. Economic growth was measured by real GDP, Foreign Direct investment (FDI) was measured by Net FDI...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the effectiveness of in-service training (INSET) programmes on the performance of teachers in the Offinso South Municipality. The study targeted all the 32 Junior High Schools with a total teacher population of 270. Simple random sample was used to select 19 schools while stratified sampling method was used to select five (5) teachers from each of the selected schools. Five (5) Circuit Supervisors responsible for the schools were added. Questionnaire and int...