The topic of this research work is inventory control as an effective tool for cost control in an organization using Cadbury Nigeria plc as a case study. Inventory control can be defined as the implementation of management’s inventory policies in a manner that assures that the goal of inventory management is met. The management of various companies is faced with the problem of at what level inventory should be held in order to have a healthy operation that is optimal stock level that will mi...
ABSTRACTOne of the main objectives of the government is to control the rate of inflationary pressure in the economy. The government employs a deliberate manipulation of cost and availability of credit and money to achieve this economic objective. The Central bank of Nigeria being the regulatory body combines measures designed to regulate the value, supply and cost of money into economic activities. This is what we call monetary policy (CBN Brief 1996/03). It is against this background that th...
ABSTRACT Diarrhoea is among the six major diseases that causes death among children below age five worldwide. It is also a major cause of morbidity and mortality among children below age five in Ghana. Giardia lamblia is among the major enteropathogen causes of diarrhoea in Ghana. Most studies in Ghana on detecting G. lamblia use microscopy and enzyme linked immunosorbent assay. There is not much data on the molecular epidemiology of Giardiasis in Ghana. This study was conducted to determine ...
INTRODUCTION Good supplier can be referred to as a tangible asset to manufacturers. It would not be possible to operate without supplier; this can be viewed for the aspect of division of labour or batch production process whereby the successful completion of one process depends on another. Therefore, I supplier fails to deliver materials especially raw materials at the right time of the operation is bound to paralyze. Sourcing by definition is a management effort which is aimed at tie locatio...
The study and practice of management in Nigeria has been viewed to be based totally on the western platform to the extent that those theories, philosophies and principles that are successful when applied in the western world have failed to yield the desired result when applied to the Nigerian setting. It is on this background that the authors reviewed some of the management theories, philosophies and principles that were operational in the Nigerian environment even before the British came to ...
ABSTRACT Maize streak disease (MSD) is the most important viral disease affecting maize production in Ghana. Management options employed to mitigate the effect of the disease has not been successful. Breeding for disease resistant is the most sustainable option. Mutation breeding was used in this study to develop maize mutants’ lines that are resistant MSD. Radiosensitivity was first carried out to determine the optimum dose for mutation induction in six cultivars of maize grown in the stu...
ABSTRACT Nigeria is a fast-growing country in terms of urbanization. One of the major infrastructure challenge is power supply. However, this challenge is often not as a result of power generation but as a result of power distribution. It is expected that housing development policies be implemented for example through standard for house equipment. The partners are expected to be ministries of power, works and urban development. This report is a documentation of a project which required devel...
ABSTRACT Increased recognition of soil fertility depletion as the main biophysical factor limiting crop production in many African small holder farms has renewed interest in the dissemination of soil fertility management (SFM) practices. Despite soil technology development and research outputs, few of the recommendations from soil fertility management research have been put into use by the targeted end users. Accessibility and utilization of the existing knowledge is inadequate due to the com...
ABSTRACT The ever growing collection of information resources that has come to be associated with academic libraries has made the organization of these collections in academic libraries a crucial need. The prevalence of the practice of cataloguing and classification in academic libraries has been ascribed to the need to fulfill this fundamental need. This study sets out to investigate the practice of cataloguing and classification as it pertains in three academic libraries in Ghana with the o...
ABSTRACT Employee turnover is a problem for organizations and is one of the challenges facing human resource managers. This study was motivated by the desire to find out the nature of employee turnover in the hotel industry in Cape Coast and Elmina, the factors that account for it and probable solutions to the problem. A stratified sampling procedure was used to select 240 employees and 40 management personnel for the study. Primary data were gathered through the administration of questionna...
ABSTRACT: In this study, the synthesis of crystalline dodecylguanidine free base and its spectroscopic characterization in nonpolar environments are described. IR as well as 1 H and 15N NMR spectra of the free base dissolved in aprotic solvents are substantially different from the previously reported spectra of arginine, or other monoalkylguanidinium compounds, at high hydroxide concentrations. The current results provide improved modelling for the spectroscopic signals that would be expecte...
ABSTRACT Road transport is a flexible mode of transport, however, management of road transport companies is faced with technical, legislative and economic problems (Sukalvoa and Ceniga; 2014). Management is usually compelled to adopt different methodologies and techniques in order to manage costs rather than to reduce them (Siyanbola; et al, 2013). In many cases, managers try to simply cut costs without considering the organizational or operational effects associated with those reduced costs ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of Endorphin Release Therapy (ERT) on pain and Range of Motion (ROM) of joints among injured Senior High School (SHS) athletes in the Central Region of Ghana. A purposive sample of 62 SHS injured athletes from the Central Region participated in the quasi-experimental study. Quantitative data were collected by the use of an orthopedic mobility scanner; a standard goniometer and 0-10 Numerical Rating Scale. The reported intra examiner...
ABSTRACT The fashion industry faces a number of challenges which include lack of policy coherence and institutional alignment, low level of value addition and a disconnect between the apparel sector and the rest of the value chain segments, supply side constraints with regards to quality and price of fabrics, with focus on afro-centric cloth and garments, weak business environment, high cost of production and built-in systemic inefficiencies, lack of market readiness, high cost and difficulti...
ABTSRACT This study was conducted to examine farmers’ perception on adoption of rice postharvest handling techniques and practices in Bahi District. Simple random, multistage and snowball sampling techniques were used to select the farmers. A well, structured questionnaire was used to obtain information from the respondents using both descriptive and inferential statistical tools. Binary logistic regression analysis was used to analyze data. The findings shows that, the highest number of t...