Abstract The purpose of this research is to explore and understand the factors that enable some career women successfully balance both career and family roles. This research adopted an exploratory research approach into finding the contributing factors through online surveys, questionnaires, and interviews. The research revealed that career women in Ghana balance their work and family roles under four main themes; external help, proper planning, maintaining good relationships with supervisors...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Vodafone Ghana previously, Ghana Telecom is a company in the telecommunications industry in Ghana that delivers a widespread of services including voice, messaging, data and fixed communications. In increasing Vodafone’s market share and maintaining Vodafone’s relevance in the market, a needs assessment was conducted to identify the gaps in their services and later a proposed solution was provided. From the needs assessment, the gap identified was the differences in the ...
ABSTRACT This paper seeks to evaluate the pedagogy of ethics instruction at Ashesi University College with an aim of recommending methods to adopt from the perspective of alumni of Ashesi University to adequately prepare graduates to deal with values conflict situations in corporate Ghana. Interviews were conducted for fifteen alumni of the university from the 2009 and 2014 graduating year groups. Data retrieved were manually analyzed using thematic analysis. Results showed that there has bee...
Abstract This dissertation explores the role of social entrepreneurs in financing the educational needs of children with autism in Ghana with three goals in mind: to expose the need for financing autism education, to identify the role of social entrepreneurs in financing quality education of children with autism, and to assess the feasibility of existing financing models employed in other countries to the Ghanaian context. Review of existing literature reveals the focus on the role of the sta...
ABSTRACT Ghana, in its quest of seeking development and exploring FDI also has to focus on its local manufacturing industries. This industry is a source of retained profits, huge source of employment and skills development, strengthening the countries balance of trade and in effect its economy. Unfortunately, this industry has not been given the necessary focus and has been observed to be dying out with the introduction of huge MNCs in the country. Several literature have tried to explain why...
ABSTRACT A review of the private health sector of some economies shows the growing use of business models, by health care providers in the sector, to improve health care provision whilst simultaneously increasing financial performance. This growing use has been based on the ability of business models to engage the resource-based and market-based principles, which have been shown to provide a sustainable competitive advantage for firms in diverse industries. Emerging African economies like Gha...
ABSTRACT Workplace bullying has been identified as a major occupational and social problem that has been in existence for ages. It is considered damaging, continual and long lasting where one party exerts some negative influence and supremacy over the other party. This study examined the impact on workplace bullying on employee productivity which eventually affects the productivity of a firm. Specifically, this study addresses the impact that it has on a target‟s ability to perform through ...
Abstract In Africa, several empirical studies on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have mainly focused on why they occur and not on their likely impact on macroeconomic indicators. Mergers and Acquisitions are major corporate actions but these raise imperative concerns about labour employment. The objective of this study therefore is to empirically test the impact of M&A on employment in Africa using annual time series and cross-sectional data of 14 African countries from 1990 to 2010. The study...
ABSTRACT This study sought to find out the financial repayment commitments of beneficiaries of the Student Loan Trust Fund (SLTF) in Ghana. It also assessed the practises which the student’s loan scheme is managed and operated in Ghana. In order to do this, questionnaires were distributed to beneficiaries of the SLTF and interviews with selected top management of the SLTF were conducted. Results of the research on beneficiaries of the SLTF centred on the following areas: employment status, ...
ABSTRACT In today’s hypercompetitive environment, more and more firms, outside the heavy, traditional marketing, Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) industry, are investing heavily in developing and executing marketing programs to win in the marketplace. In the Ghanaian banking sector, diversity, development, and intense competition have seen many banks developing different strategies, such as employing brand ambassadors to reach their customers, deliver their services, and maintain longlasti...
ABSTRACT The study examined the effect of Ghana’s free maternal health care policy on maternal mortality using yearly records of deliveries, maternal mortality, postnatal and antenatal attendance and the amount spent on the policy. The data was obtained from the Department of the Obstetrics & Gynecology of the Nsawam Government Hospital. T-test and correlation coefficient were used for the research. Trend analysis showed a reduction in maternal mortality however, there was an insignificant ...
ABSTRACT Organisations are using information technology and increasing their corporate websites pages for recruitment purposes. Despite this increased utilization of information technology for employee recruitment , the extent to which employers perceive information technology as a useful source of employment information and their reactions to these practices have not yet been studied in the insurance companies in Ghana. This study examined the role of information technology in employee recru...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of motivation on productivity in Ghana Education Service in the Akim South District of the Ashanti Region. Five research questions guided the study. Quantitative research design was employed. A sample of 160 respondents participated in the study through structured questionnaires, and in-depth interviews. All the respondents were professional teachers from the Asante Akim South District in the Ashanti Region. Sampling was done u...
ABSTRACT Several decades have passed since organisational citizenship behaviour began to penetrate the organisational sciences. Recently, however, scholars have begun to critically analyze the motives that drive organisational citizenship behaviour. The present study attempted to explore the relationship between personality variables and organisational citizenship behaviour. Specifically, Norman‟s Big Five personality model-which includes, conscientiousness, extraversion, neuroticism, agree...
ABSTRACT The incidence of cross-country per capita income convergence has been debated for long by economists; all in the attempt to either validate or reject the per capita income convergence hypothesis as predicted by the Human capital - augmented Solow model (HC-ASM). However, researchers seem to have given little attention to the Economic Community of West African State (ECOWAS) region in this ongoing discourse despite the wide per capita income disparity gap in the region. Using panel da...