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- ItemThe Impact of Human Resource Management Practices on Teacher Retention in the Ghana Education Service: A Case Study of Schools in the Cape Coast Metropolis(2012) Yeboah, StephenAll educational policies by government over the years such as the Free Compulsory Universal Basic Education (FCUBE) for all school going-age children (Government of Ghana, 1992), the school feeding programme and recently the model secondary schools policy focus on expansion of physical infrastructure and enrollment and fails to recognize the essential role teacher attraction and retention play in any educational system. A total of sixty two (62) respondents were surveyed for this study. This comprises forty teachers, twenty head teachers and two unit heads. The purposive stratified sampling technique was adopted and data collected with a structured questionnaire. The data collected was analyzed with SPSS. The study revealed that schools within the Cape Coast Metropolis are having some degree of difficulty in attracting new teachers. It also concluded that teaching even though is experiencing a chronic prestige, it is still appealing to most young people and that the most significant factor that affected both teacher recruitment and retention was employee remuneration. Low or uncompetitive salary was clearly indicated as a factor that hindered teacher recruitment and retention. It is therefore recommended that the government, through The Ministry of Education takes a critical look at teacher remuneration and other incentive packages in order promote teacher recruitment and retention.
- ItemInfluence of condition of road transport infrastructure on rural agricultural development in the Jaman South District(JUNE, 2015) Yeboah, StephenThis study was designed to assess the influence of road transportation infrastructure on rural agricultural development in the Jaman South District of the Republic of Ghana. The cross-section survey research design was adopted in this research work. Purposive sampling was used to select 30 rural communities while questionnaires and structured interview schedule were used to collect data from 387 farmer households and 84 drivers by means of simple probability sampling technique. Data collection was based on both primary and secondary sources. Descriptive statistics technique such as percentages, frequencies, means and chi square was used to highlight the socio-economic characteristics of the farmers in the study area. The SPSS package was used to analyse data. The study established that less than 45% of the road network in the district was properly engineered and classified to be good. It was found out that, the average farm distance from the community to the main road or nearest market was approximately 2500m out of which approximately 1,375m was in bad shape. Most of the road networks linking the various communities to the main market were unpaved and immotorable during the rainy season. Farming in the district was characterised by farmers who owned small portions of farm size and used rudimentary methods of agriculture. This accounted for the reason why about 76% of the farmers earned less than two thousand (2000) cedis a year from their farm produce. The study revealed that, the type of road connecting the communities to the market had a significant relationship with the estimated travel time to Drobo, cost of transportation, where farmers sold their farm produce, choice of crops, the use of fertilizers, willingness of the farmers to diversify their farms and accessibility of labour. It did not however find a statistically significant influence of road transport infrastructure on farm size of the farmers in Jaman South District. The study recommended the development and expansion of road infrastructure in Jaman South District making use of local resources and technology to boost agricultural development which will further augment farmers’ income and general well-being.
- ItemKey Supervision Styles and Effect on Quality Performance of Construction Projects in Ghana.(NOVEMBER, 2016 ) Yeboah, StephenGenerally, the success of completing any construction project relies massively on the quality of supervision. Nevertheless, the inability of many supervisors to organize, communicate with workers, and direct activities sufficiently is primarily connected to the quality of the construction. This study sought to determine key supervision styles adopted in the construction industry, identify those used in the Ghanaian Construction industry and their effect on quality performance of construction projects in the Ghanaian construction industry. To do this, 80 questionnaires were sent to site foremen, site managers, site engineers and clerk of works within the Ashanti region. Thirty-three (33) completed questionnaires retrieved from the survey were examined using mean score ranking. The findings revealed Encouraging Teamwork as the most common supervision style used in the Ghanaian construction industry in ensuring quality performance of construction projects. Also, Effective Communication of task to workers was regarded by respondents as the most significant supervision style that has effect on quality performance of construction projects. The findings and recommendations reveal of this study may be useful to construction professionals and policy makers who are seeking innovative ways to improve quality performance of construction projects. It would be highly remarkable if future research could investigate the key performance indices of the quality performance variables so as to evaluate how each component of supervision style affect a particular performance index.