ABSTRACT This study primarily examined the relationship between leadership styles and employee safety citizenship behaviour. The study further examined the moderating role of professional commitment on the leadership and safety citizenship behaviour relationship. A questionnaire was used to obtain data from one hundred and ninety seven participants from an energy distribution company in southern Ghana. Purposive and convenience sampling techniques were employed in data collection. Data was a...
ABSTRACT This study sought to examine the extent to which and how climate change programmes are being mainstreamed into Local Assembly’s Development Agenda (LADA) in the Tain District Assembly (TDA). A case study design within the qualitative research method was adopted. Multi-stage sampling involving purposive technique was employed for the study. In-depth interviews were the instruments of primary data collection. The study found out that climate change concerns are yet to be well integr...
ABSTRACT Quiet recently, service innovation is seen as a key way of firm survival, and has gained lots of attention not only from academic scholars but also industry experts. However, there have been some erroneous perceptions that innovation is a preserve of manufacturing businesses and as a result, scholarly evidence suggests that the practice has not gained much attention within services business settings. The study explores the relationships among service innovation, customer value creat...
ABSTRACT The research studies the traditional beliefs and practices about pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum periods in the Sekyere South District of Ashanti Region. Its objectives are to document the social meanings attached to pregnancy and childbirth, to examine the beliefs and practices about pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum periods and to interrogate the practices that promote maternal health in the community. Applying principally a qualitative approach, a total of thirty five res...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of Facebook usage on sales performance and explore whether an employee's service behaviour has a mediating effect on the relationship between Facebook usage and sales performance. This study employed an explanatory research design to explain the cause-and-effective relationship among Facebook usage, an employee's service behaviour and sales performance. Self-administered questionnaires and the use of a uniform resource locator (U...
ABSTRACT Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has attracted substantial amounts of Official Development Assistance (ODA) over the years. General ODA flows to the continent currently stands at around $80 billion per annum and the figure is projected to be well above $125 billion due to the Sustainable Development Goals. Over the last five decades, SSA has received about $1 trillion in foreign aid for sector-specific (agriculture, health, etc.) development. Even though the impact of aid on economic growth...
ABSTRACT This study investigates the antecedents and consequences of board interlocks on the Ghana Stock Exchange. The study looks at how factors such as the auditor network, industry network, foreign or local ownership network, gender effect, age effect, gender homophile and age homophile could influence the formation of interlocks between firms. The study also examined the relation between interlocks and Return on Assets, Return on Equity and Profitability among the firms. Data for the stu...
ABSTRACT Studies on the impact of import duties on the spare parts industry and Abossey Okai market to be specific are limited. Most of the available studies conducted in this subject area have focused attention on the challenges of the automobile industry. It is in this regard that this study sought to evaluate the impact of import duties on the Abossey Okai spare parts dealers. The specific objectives were to evaluate the impact of import duties on the sales, employment and quantity of goo...
ABSTRACT This research examines the relationship between global governance, global public policy and Ghana's national public policy in reference to the passing of the Domestic Violence Bill. It further assesses to what extent global governance can address the trans-sovereign transnational issue of violence against women, specifically domestic violence. The independent variables in this research project are global governance and global public policy with political environment and the “secon...
ABSTRACT Healthcare is a very personalized and important service that is globally used which considerably affects economies and the quality of daily lives. In most parts of the world and Ghana, healthcare is experiencing unprecedented growth with changing cost structures and healthcare laws are also evolving. As a corollary, healthcare providers are experiencing increased competitive pressures providing consumers with a lot of options and making them active decision makers in their healthcar...
ABSTRACT The reforms introduced in the banking sector since 2006 by the central bank in Ghana has changed the sector significantly. The changes include deregulation and minimum capital requirement. These have seen an influx of foreign banks into the Ghanaian market. The influx of more banks in Ghana have paved way for consumers to have multiple choices of banks to select from. Studies have indicated that trust is a key ingredient consumers’ use in their brand selection. Meanwhile, other st...
ABSTRACT To address the challenge of health worker’s shortage, Ghana like many African countries, uses community volunteers to assist in the provision of certain health services to rural and hard-to-reach communities. However, few studies have been done in the country to ascertain the motivation for volunteering and the retention of these volunteers. Adopting the Homan’s Social Exchange Theory as its theoretical perspective, this study examines the motivation for volunteering and the ret...
ABSTRACT The research on “population pressure and social- economic development in Uganda” was conducted in Kisenyi parish Kampala central. The study was guided by three objectives which included; to examine how high birthrates affect economic development in Kampala city, to find out the causes of high birthrates in Kisenyi Kampala city and to establish ways of curbing high birthrates in Kampala city. This study employed the descriptive survey design. Descriptive studies are no experiment...
Abstract The purpose of the study was to establish the relationship perceived risk, trust, perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, and internet banking adoption. The study adopted a cross sectional design which was quantitative and qualitative in nature. It involved descriptive and analytical research designs. The study sample comprised of 384 bank customers in the Kampala, who were selected through simple random sampling. The data was tested for reliability, analyzed using SPSS and res...
ABSTRACT The research presents the impact of sales promotion on the productivity of the organization in particular Century Bottling Company Limited. The research that was undertaken was conducted to identify sales promotion activities use din Century Bottling Company Limited. The research was also conducted to examine the relationship that exists between sales promotion and productivity. It was also conducted to establish other factors other than sales promotion that leads to productivity in...