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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Ahwoi (2010) defines local government as the process of transferring power from the central government to sub national units of government. It is a system of governance where the administration of a particular jurisdiction is delegated to the people within that community. The Local Government Act 936 of Ghana (2016) establishes the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Asse...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE RESEARCH DESIGN Background to Research Problem Statement International Relations principally emerged to foster international cooperation among countries in order to manage global threats or crises that beset the international system.1 In an international system with the absence of a central authority regulating it, international security is one of the main driving forces that helps kee...Continue Reading »
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MBA-MSC-PhD Thesis Research
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the study An academic library, in the opinion of Entsua Mensah (2015), is a library attached to a higher education institution and mandated to serve the curricular needs of students, faculty members and staff of the parent institution (College or University). The primary objective of the academic library is to aid the teaching, learning and research activitie...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the study Development has become a central foundation for modern societies where every nation strives to achieve some form of improvement and positive transformation in all important spheres of life. It is therefore unsurprising that Khalid (2012) describes development as a ‘civil religion’ and a ‘battle cry’ of nations. With time, dev...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1. 1 Background and Introduction to Ghana’s Decentralization Since its maiden appearance in social and political discourse in the 1820s, and becoming a subject of much concern for Alexis de Tocqueville and Pierre – Joseph Proudhon in the middle of the 1880s (Schmidt, 2007), decentralization has become a subject of great interest to many from diverse backgrounds...Continue Reading »
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COMPUTER SCIENCE
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the study The impact of plagiarism among the scholarly population has introduced a lot of misconceptions and academic dishonesty (Mohammed, Iliyasu, & Habib, 2017). University academic dishonesty is a prevalent occurrence among students of all ages and specialties. Moreover, higher education throughout the globe is witnessing heightened reported instances...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION/ BACKGROUND TO STUDY INTRODUCTION This chapter gives precursory information on the study undertaken and explains the framework of the research. BACKGROUND TO STUDY Advertising is said to reflect societies’ realities meaning (Slachmuijlder, 2000). Whatever we see in advertisements is the social reality of the context in which the advertisement is being shown (Slachmui...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The alarming prevalence of various categories of handicapped persons in our contemporary society has generated a great awareness of people on the problems of these members of the society. Ezera (1990) agreed that there has been a phenomenal increase in awareness of the society on the plight of the handicapped children including their vocational ...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Introduction In what has been characterized as an information age (Kline, 2005; Merber, 2009), reading has gained currency for accomplishments in all spheres of human endeavour such as social, political, economic and educational. Hence reading habits must be nurtured and enhanced. This chapter expresses the context and contentions that characterize policies and practices r...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the study In January 2018, a tweet about a primary school teacher in Ghana who teaches his pupils Information and Communication Technology (ICT) with a blackboard version of Microsoft Office went viral on Twitter. A Twitter user had copied the post from Facebook and mentioned Information Technology companies like Microsoft and Google in the tweet. Within few ...Continue Reading »
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EDUCATION
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Rural women play important role in improving general aspects of rural life. However, in most developing countries, women (and even more so, rural women) are still an under privileged group with an inferior social status (Okojie, 1983; National Population Commission, 1999). Within the rural sector, Okojie (1983), sees the largest group of the poo...Continue Reading »
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EDUCATION
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.0 Introduction This chapter begins with the background of the study and information relevant to what the study sought to achieve. The chapter also presents the research problem, objectives of the study, the significance of the study and a summary of how the study has been organised. The chapter ends with the operational definitons used in the study. 1. 1 Background of th...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY The Nigerian school system, particularly the primary and secondary schools, has undergone some changes due to the adoption of the policy of inclusive education. This means more students with special education needs who were educated in separate classrooms or schools are now educated in the same class with other children that do not have any spec...Continue Reading »
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EDUCATION
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the Study According to (BOG Banking Sector Report November 2018), as at October 2018, the Ghanaian Banking industry was made up of thirty (30) universal banks. Thirteen (13) of which were locally – owned and the remaining seventeen (17) were owned by foreigners. The Ghanaian banking sector is currently recovering from the shock associated with the colla...Continue Reading »
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EDUCATION
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The teaching and learning of mathematics and especially geometry to learners with visual impairment in Nigeria has remained a great challenge to both the teachers and their children. Learners with visual impairment (LWVI) in most cases are exempted from offering mathematics and the case of geometry is worse. The few schools that attempted teachi...Continue Reading »
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EDUCATION
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» CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION Introduction and Background There is a continuing interest in motivation as a key driver of employee performance by Public Administration scholars and practitioners. The interest is due to the acknowledgement that employees are vital to organizations, and that the extent to which organizational goals are achieved depends on the performance of their employees, which...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of Study Proactive Behaviour The nature of work has undergone numerous transformations, which are evident in infrastructure, technology and work processes. It is therefore essential that organisations rely on the proactive contributions of their employees (Salanova & Schaufeli, 2008). Thus, employee proactivity has developed into a general concern in today&r...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY. The Nigerian Research and Development Council (NERDC) present Early Childhood Education as programmes concerned with the care and education of children from birth to five years (0 5years) (NERDC,2007) and has developed national curriculum for the care and education of children 0 – 5years..This indicates that the government realizes the si...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION Introduction The importance of employee performance for the realization of organizational goals has long been recognized by both public administration and human resource scholars and practitioners (Yahya & Tan, 2015). With the advent of the New Public Management (NPM) however, more impetus has been given to the need to maximize the performance of employees, par...Continue Reading »
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of the Study The concept of leadership exists and permeates all societies and has been deemed very essential to the functioning and effectiveness of organizations within societies (Ardichvili and Kuchinke, 2002). “Today leadership has been regarded to have “a major influence on the performance of organizations, managers and employees (Wang et al 2005...Continue Reading »
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