ABSTRACT Issues of recruitment, selection and placement are at the heart of the human resource management process. Not only are they critical to the success of any institution but are also essential to the survival of any institution. This study assesses the recruitment, selection and placement processes within the Ghana National Fire Service in the Central Region of Ghana. Questionnaire and in-depth interview guides were used to solicit data from a representative sample of 218 personnel incl...
ABSTACT One successful method to ensuring that children attend school on a regular basis is through school feeding programmes. Many different organisations fund school feeding programmes, among them the World Food Programme (WFP) and the World Bank. In Ghana the Catholic Relief Service (CRS) is one such organisation involved with school feeding in the Savelugu/Nanton District. The general objective of the study is to evaluate the CRS intervention of the school feeding programme and its effect...
Table of Contents 1. Industry Analysis 3 1.1 About Google 3 1.2 Industry Player 3 1.3 Organizational Structure 3 2. Market Analysis 4 2.1 Market Position 4 2.2 Problems Faced by Google 4 3. Culture and Working Climate of the Organization 5 3.1 Work Environment 5 3.2 Hiring 5 3.3 Retention 6 3.4 Leadership 6 3.5 Road Ahead 7 4. Google’s Important Values and Ethical Standards 7 4.1 Ethical Standards at Google�...
ABSTRACT In this study, I aimed at three objectives. First, t o determine the financial leverage of manufacturing firms listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange. Second, t o analyze the relationship between financial leverage and profitability. Third, t o examine the factors affecting financial leverage of manufacturing firms that are listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange. Employing descriptive and trend analysis, my results showed that financial leverage of manufacturi...
ABSTRACT The concept of decentralisation as a developmental phenomenon comes with it, financial decentralisation and autonomy in which case the subnational institutions are enjoined to generate their own revenues for their developmental activities within their geographical areas. The study was to find out to what extent the Ahanta West District Assembly prosecutes its service delivery functions with its own internally generated revenues, and to examine the potentials and the challenges in the...
ABSTRACT The study investigated how nutritional labelling affects consumer purchasing decisions of food products within the Kumasi metropolis. Specifically, the objectives of the study were to find out the level of awareness of consumers towards nutritional labelling in terms of buying behaviour, to examine whether nutritional labelling affect consumer decision to purchase healthy food products and finally to ascertain whether a consumer demographic characteristics (i.e. gender, income, edu...
ABSTRACT Automobile companies in Ghana continue to lose customers due to various degrees in taste, preferences for technology and poor quality of service delivery. Even though, the sales and services of vehicles are on the increase and also new customers are being attracted every day, customers continue to change their interest in the purchase and services of their vehicles from one automobile company to another. This has resulted in poor customer satisfaction in the automobile industry. Th...
ABSTRACT Gold mining is a very important segment of the extractive sector but has one of the most serious and disastrous environmental consequences; conflicting with the livelihood and cocoa production and survival of resident communities. This research was conducted in Amansie West district of Ghana to assess the effect of small scale illegal mining (Galamsey), its impact on cocoa production and livelihoods. The modified random sampling technique was used. Data collected was analyzed with S...
ABSTRACT T he success of organisations largely depend on the nature of motivational policies established in dealing with employees been the most valuable assets who work to achieve set goals and objectives. This study sought to examine motivational strategies adopted by organisations with specific reference to Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH). The target population involves employees of KATH (3,519). Stratified sampling technique was used in selecting a sample size of 271 out of which 21...
ABSTRACT Surgical patients have been known to benefit immensely from psychological interventions. This study set out to assess the pre and postoperative anxiety levels and depression and the effect of cognitive therapy among Nigerian surgical patients, The effects of gender and educational status on perioperative anxiety and depression were also evaluated. Study design . The study utilized a controlled outcome design to evaluate the efficacy of self instructional training (SIT) and rational e...
ABSTRACT Economic Community of West African States‘ (ECOWAS) total trade has reflected deficit in the last two decades. It was $1.42 billion in 1990, increased to $3.32 billion in 2000 and $6.24 billion in 2009. This trade imbalance in the ECOWAS region can be traced to the dominance of primary over manufactured products in the region‘s exports. However, the imbalance can be reversed with trade in similar products that is Intra-Industry Trade (IIT) between the region and her highest trad...
ABSTRACT Rural households in developing countries have for a long time been perceived as farm households, and that they receive their income predominantly from agriculture. There is growing evidence however in the rural livelihoods literature to show that rural households in developing countries derive a significant proportion of their incomes from non-farm activities, and income from this source is growing. In addition, nonagricultural activities constitute the main occupation of an increas...
ABSTRACT Universities have unique features from regular business entities. However, like any other organisation the environment in which they operate is constantly changing, and they need to change not only to survive but to compete successfully to achieve set objectives. This study examines universities and how they achieve success in change implementation, given their culture and readiness for change tendencies. A total of 528 participants made up of academic and non-teaching staff, as wel...
ABSTRACT In an ideal situation, over 97 percent of newborn infants can be expected to survive through the first five years of life. Reduction in this survival probability in any society is due to the operation of social, economic, biological, and environmental forces. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between sanitation and diarrhoeal diseases among children who are less than five years in Ghana. A sample of 2005 women who had given birth in the last five years preced...
ABSTRACT The study examined to a greater extent, the organizational policies, procedures and resources that support the appraisal system of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority. The timing, frequency, uses of appraisal data and other relevant issues that affect the performance appraisal system were also critically evaluated. The data collection tools employed in the study included questionnaires, interviews and focus group discussions. The simple random sampling technique was used to draw t...