Businesses - whether Limited Liability Companies, Sole Proprietorships, Partnerships, etc. - in Ghana, like elsewhere, exist with the aim of maximising profit. Shareholders or persons who invest in such business by way of shares have an expectation that the company will keep being a going concern, make profit and...
It is impossible to cover all the myriads of society’s challenges but we need to give up our best, and optimise resource utilisation to achieve the welfare of the masses. The emerging high level of society’s economic inequality is not compatible with democracy. These inequalities are gradual building blocks for...
Does anyone ever pause and ponder traffic lights and traffic signals? And would it be weird to know that I do? In a city so quickly growing as Accra, one would think it would be something we did more often. Imagine the exceedingly high levels of carnage and chaos...
My wild dreams It is said that what you reflect on or encounter during the day usually returns in your dreams. It was not surprising therefore that I came out of a discussion on the linkages between academic pursuits and societal progress last Tuesday and had wild dreams about why...
The world is evolving faster each day and the busyness at the workplace keeps increasing; in fact there never seem to be enough time to get things done. Technology has taken over our lives so much that when it comes to work, relationship has sadly become the one thing...
It is often said that it is easy for one to laugh at a mentally deranged man who is dancing in the market place so long as the mental man is not his relation! True or false? That is the reason until COVID hits any member of one’s family,...
In 1988, Oprah Winfrey asked Donald Trump on her programme if he would win in case he should run for the presidency of the United States of America, and Donald: “I don’t know, but I think I will win. I have never gone in to lose in my life...
Ghana recently launched its 2022 Voluntary National Review (VNR) report on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) at the Accra International Conference Centre with Denkyirahemaa Nanahemaa Ama Ayensua Saara III as chairperson for the occasion, the Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission - Prof. George Gyan-Baffour, Mr. Charles Abani...
Expectancy theory contends that employee behaviours are based on the choices of an individual dependent on their expected outcome. Basically, the tenet of this theory is that people are influenced by the desired outcomes of their actions (Renko, Kroeck & Bullough, 2012). Vroom came out with two major propositions, that...
As a customer service trainer, I always try to come up with acronyms, I believe this can be a great way to connect to the word. Last time I came up with an acronym for the word positive, and used different words to describe each letter in the word....