ABSTRACT Water is vital to human existent and human well-being. The availability of adequate standard, clean, safe and secured water source has been and would always be a major concern. Human access to adequate safe and secured fresh water is limited, yet crucial for the survival of livelihood and healthy living. Rainwater Harvesting (RWH) through the roof catchment is an important domestic water source. The RWH system consists of the capture, transporting pipes, storage and utilization of st...
ABSTRACT Road traffic accidents and fatalities are a serious concern globally due to its negative implications on health, social and economic wellbeing of the people. This preventable phenomenon is wiping away millions of lives and also depleting economic resources of countries especially developing countries who own 48% only of the world‘s vehicles yet account for 90% of all road accidents and fatalities in the world. Several attempts such as legislation, engineering and technological impr...
ABSTRACT The provision of key economic infrastructure such as roads, railways, ports, power plants, water treatment plants, among others remains prominent in the development of a country‟s economy. In Ghana however, the immediate requirements for these projects coupled with inherent budget constraints in the public sector makes it difficult for government to bridge the infrastructural gap. Public-Private Partnership has been identified as the innovative approach to finance public projects t...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this research is to examine the impact of social media and sports fan engagement and explore whether social media engagement has a mediating effect on the relationship between fan engagement behaviour and fan loyalty. The research employed an explanatory research design to explain the cause-and-effective relationship among fan behaviour and fan loyalty. Self-administered questionnaires were employed in collecting the data. The target population for this study was fans ...
ABSTRACT In recent times, household loans, which is a tool for development for most households have gained much importance especially in developing countries. This can be attributed to the fact that they are likely to have a significant impact on the welfare of the households. This study provides evidence on the impact of household loans on the welfare of households in Ghana. The study also examines the factors that influence the probability that households will have access to loans. Data for...
ABSTRACT 8 The study examined the impact of leadership styles on task performance in the micro-finance industry. The study is a quantitative in nature and adopted a cross-sectional research approach. With a sample of 118 employee sampled from Micro-finance firms and were drawn using the convenience sample technique. The researcher gathered data on the variables of interest and used both descriptive and inferential statistics to analyze the data and test the various hypotheses. Data was collec...
Abstract This research sought to assess the effectiveness of environmental management systems (EMS) at the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR). The study adopted wholly qualitative research design with indepth interview guide as its main research and data collection instrument. The study employed a sample of twenty (20) respondents. Respondents were made up of members from the human resource, environment, depot management, and transport and tank management as well as members of the health, safety, securi...
ABSTRACT Irrigation has proven to be one of the surest ways of increasing agriculture production, particularly in arid areas. Notwithstanding this, the opportunity has not been optimally utilised to better the lots of rural smallholder farmers. This study, therefore, sought to examine how irrigation systems are governed, the contribution of irrigation to livelihood enhancement and relationship between irrigation farming and migration in the Wa West District. This study was conducted using a ...
ABSTRACT The study sought to ascertain the extent to which Valley View University (VVU) has complied with the Data Protection Act (DPA) since the implementation of the E-HRS at the University. This case study sampled a total of thirty employees from diverse functional units of the University. The aim was to evaluate respondents’ acceptability, knowledge and understanding of E-HRS issues relating to the DPA, security issues in the DPA and adherence to such security issues. Findings revealed ...
Abstract The Ghana Police Service (GPS) relies to a large extent on human labour. Motivation is critical in service delivery in the area of protection of lives and property, maintenance of law and order, as well as public safety and internal security. This study, therefore, adopted the needs-based theory in examining the perceptions of personnel salary, training, promotion and fringe benefits as a set of motivational tools. In addition, study assesses the perceptions of personnel of manageria...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to explore the upward mobility of women in accounting firms in Ghana. It examines various experiences encountered by women in comparison to those encountered by men in the profession, through the lens of the “labyrinth metaphor”, including their coping strategies. The study employed an exploratory qualitative case study approach, using semi-structured interviews to collect data from a sample of 13 female and 8 male chartered accountants in managerial ...
ABSTRACT The study on the financial effect of road fund had to be conducted because of the problem of limited attention and literature committed towards this aspect of research in Ghana’s knowledge space. Following this problem the current study investigated financial effects of Ghana road fund misappropriation in the Ghana Highway Authority. The specific objectives include; to help identify the causes of the misappropriation funds to projects by the road agencies, to run a comparative anal...
ABSTRACT Accountability and transparency have long remained an area of concern in public-private partnerships (PPP). In addition, there is a concern in the literature to examine accountability from a developing country’s perspective. This thesis responds to the call by drawing on the Shaoul et al’s (2012) governance-based reporting framework which has received little application in literature to examine the extent to which PPP delivers public accountability in water supply sector. The stu...
ABSTRACT This research compared and examined the management of University for Development Studies (UDS) and Presbyterian University College, Ghana (PUCG). The main objective was to compare, analyse and explain the differences and similarities in the management of the two selected public and private multi-campus universities in Ghana. To achieve the research objectives, the qualitative method and a comparative case study approach as well as an in-depth interview technique were employed for the...
ABSTRACT World trade has expanded over the last few decades, but the trade within Africa especially among Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries has been low. Globally there has been a reduction in tariff rates, reducing trade costs in general, but the SSA region still records the high costs of trade as compared to other developing regions and this has hindered the flow of trade within the region (World Bank Doing Business report, 2013). SSA’s poorly developed trade logistics in the form of po...