Over the years, companies have found various ways to incentivise their existing staff and attract excellent employees on the job market away from their competitors. They typically achieve these through attractive benefit packages which are given to employees as part of their terms of contract. These include sign-on bonus,...
We have discussed how the OODA loop - or the Observe, Orient, Decision, Action loop - works in helping to make better decisions. The first and the important thing to remember about the OODA loop is that it is mainly concerned with situations that involve split-second decision-making. Considering the fact...
Ghana’s former President, John Agyekum Kufuor has stated that “it will be a mistake and a very sad one, for humanity to throw up our hands and abandon our fight against climate change.”
He explained that climate change “is very real and its related natural disasters and associated problems are...
Once again, the president of the republic has been unpardonably embarrassed by his employment minister in respect of his inability to provide credible employment statistics. In 2017 the president asked that he should be given eighteen months to be able to provide data on the jobs that government had...
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The Bank of Ghana summary of economic and financial data for January 2018 states that the Non-performing loans (NPL) of the banking industry was 22.7% at the end of December 2017.The cash flows that most banks expect to receive on NPLs are based on several different scenarios, such...
As creativity, innovation and machine intelligence become the currencies of the modern economy, Ghana must now begin to deliberately invest in the tools, talents, technologies and tactics of digital nation building.
Projected by the World Bank, alongside Ethiopia and Tanzania, to be one of Africa’s fastest growing economies in 2018,...
On Monday, February 19, 2018 when this column will be published, the Petroleum Commission (PC), regulator of the upstream industry and Ghana's lucrative petroleum resources will host a meeting in Accra themed 'Local Content Procurement Conference.'
There are more than 500 companies including joint ventures registered with the PC, along...
There’s a great deal of over concentrated development in the urban cities of Ghana at the detriment of the development of rural areas such as the Akohia Siase and Akohia Yiti communities which I visited in the Eastern Region of Ghana.
These communities, like most other rural areas in Ghana...
