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Le narrateur naif et la narration dans le Pauvre Christ bomba de Mongo beti et dans une vie de boy de Ferdinand Oyono: Une etude comparee

This thesis seeks to identify the narrators and narrative skills the two writers, Ferdinand Oyono and Mongo Beti used in their books, Une vie de boy and Pauvre Christ de Bomba respectively, to achieve their objectives. Naïve narrators recount events plainly as they unfold not being conscious of the effect of what they say and are hence used by writers to achieve their objectives of informing and educating their readers. Matured, they would be careful with the narration of events of a story, often using euphemism and idioms to attenuate effects that would have been created by their narration. This work seeks to find out the effects of the naivety of the narrators on the narration as well as on the objectives of the writers. Critically reading through the two books, we discovered that the novelists intentionally used innocent narrators to tell their stories. Notwithstanding the similarities in the way they used the narrators, there are differences identified among which one could cite that, whereas the narration in Une vie de boy is one within another narration, that in Le Pauvre Chris de Bomba was started with the main narrator of the story. Innocent narrators were handled skillfully and effectively through the pages of the novels and through direct, scenic, flashback, prolepsis, and analeptic narrations, among others the writers succeeded inrevolting against the colonial masters and colonialism as they sought at the same time to promote black culture. The naïve narrators and the narrative styles adopted allowed the writers to enter the private and secret life of the colonial masters to know them very intimately as individuals with weak moral characters, though in group they looked strong.

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Le pessimisme dans Les Soleils des Indépendances d’Ahmadou Kourouma

Cet article examine le thème du pessimisme comme une perspective dominante dans Les Soleils des Indépendances d’Ahmadou Kourouma. Il retrace le pessimisme à travers le jeu des personnages et les indices spatio-temporels tels que Kourouma les déploie dans ce texte. À cet égard, l’article y examine certains des personnages clés dans le cadre spatio-temporel dans lequel ils évoluent. L’examen de ces phénomènes révèle la réalité de l’idée de l’Afro-pessimisme. L’indépendance de l’Afrique telle que perçue à travers ces trois phénomènes littéraires que sont les personnages, la spatialité et la temporalité, est un échec total sur tous les fronts, un concept vide de substance. Par conséquent, l’étude conclut que la mort tragique de Fama, le protagoniste du texte, dans sa tentative de reconstruction de sa dignité et humanité perdues sous « les soleils des indépendances » est une évidente manifestation et concrétisation du pessimisme dans ce texte Romanesque d’Ahmadou Kourouma

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Le sahel comme espace littéraire dans le Roman ouest Africain d'expression francaise

Francophone novelists of West Africa often choose the Sahel region as the setting for their stories. For aesthetic reasons however, this 'external' reality undergoes a transformation as the imagination of the writers work on it. So what does the Sahel look like in the novels? This thesis studies how different writers present the same reality to meet specific aesthetic demands. Camara Laye in The African Child paints the Sahel region as a paradise in order to support a nationalist, negri tudinist stance. Cheikh Hamidou Kane in Ambiguous Adventure presents a pure, spiritual Sahel as an appropriate setting for a mystical experience. In Sahel, Bloody Drought (by Mandé-Alpha Diarra) and The Bassari Archer (by Modibo Keita), the Sahel becomes respectively a macabre region and an animistic stronghold. Both novels try to appeal to the conscience of the powers that be by focussing on the plight of peasants in a drought-stricken Sahel. Ahmadou Kourouma, disgusted with self rule under African leaders focusses on the sordid aspects of the Sahelian region. Finally, Williams Sassine, lamenting the conditions of the underprivileged in African governments, presents the Sahel as a great cupola where poor oppressed people find themselves imprisoned. By and large, therefore, the Sahel as it appears in francophone african novels, is a difficult, uncomfortable area - an indication that socio-politico-economic conditions there are not too bright either.

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Lead, cadmium and arsenic in breast milk of lactating mothers in Odumanse-Atua community in Manya Krobo district of Eastern region of Ghana

With the recent introduction of the policy of absolute breast feeding of infants in Ghana for the first six months after birth, this triggered our interest in investigating the presences of some heavy metals in breast milk. Breast milk samples were collected from twenty lactating mothers below the ages of twenty five in the Odumanse-Atua community in the Manya Krobo district of Eastern Region of Ghana. The samples obtained by self milking into sterilized polyethylene bottles and well labeled. Few drops of 0.1 M trichloroacetic acid were added to the sample and the aqueous layer heated at 5000 C for one hour. After ashing, it was digested with 0.5 M HNO3 and the metals analyzed using an AAS (Philip AAS 9200U model). The mean level of Pb was 4.33 µg/L with a range of < LOD -32.0 µg/L. The mean level of Cd was found to be 1. 34 µg/L and range < LOD -12.301 µg/L. The mean arsenic concentration was 1.54 µg/L and ranging between < LOD - 6.22 µg/L

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Leader Humility And Employee Commitment: The Mediating Role Of Job Satisfaction And Employee Engagement. A Case Of University Of Cape Coast

The purpose of this research work is to determine the extent to which job satisfaction and employee engagement mediate the impact of leader humility on employee commitment, a case of University of Cape Coast. This research used simple random sampling in selecting 240 respondents who were administrative staff of the University of Cape Coast. Research data and information were gathered with structured questionnaires and, process and analysed using a descriptive and inferential methods. The study establishes a positive correlation between employee’s commitment on one hand, and leader humility behaviour, employee engagement, job satisfaction, Relational Transparency and Relational Capital on the other hand. The research found a significant positive impact of leader humility on employee commitment, and also both relational transparency and relational capital impact positively on employees’ commitment. Further, the study found a positive significant impact of leader humility on employee engagement and job satisfaction of staff at the university. Through SEM the study found that even though job satisfaction and employee engagement partially mediate the impact of leader humility on employee commitment, however, staff job satisfaction had higher impact. The research recommends that administrators of University of Cape Coast must continue to improve their interpersonal relationship with staff in order to promote industrial harmony and employee commitment at the university. The study recommends that there should be a special policy consideration for raising the awareness among university management on the need to demonstrate leader humility in their day-to-day management in order to improve employee decision variables like job satisfaction, employee engagement and commitment.

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Leader humility and organisational citizenship behaviour: the mediating role of job satisfaction and employee engagement

The study examined leader humility and organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB) with the mediating role of job satisfaction and employee engagement among senior staff administrators in the University of Cape Coast. The specific objectives are; to ananlyse; the effects of leader humility on OCB; examine the effects of leader humility on job satisfaction; the effects of leader humility on employee engagement; assess the effects of job satisfaction on OCB; the effects of employee engagement on OCB; the mediating role of job satisfaction between leader humility and OCB; and the mediating role of employee engagement between leader humility and OCB. The study adopted the explanatory research design using the quantitative approach. The study used the proportionate stratified sampling to draw 246 respondents for the study. Data were collected using questionnaire while data analysis was done using the partial least square structural modelling. The study found that leader humility has a positive and significant relationship with OCB, job satisfaction and employee engagement. The results of the study further indicated job satisfaction and employee engagement have significant positive link with OCB. Finally, the study established that job satisfaction and employee engagement made partial mediation effect on the link between leader humility and OCB. The study concluded that leaders of various teams or units in the university adopt humility leadership as it can create a positive work culture where employees feel more connected to the organisation and its values. The study recommended the institution should consider a more nuanced approach to leadership development, considering the positive effects of leader humility on OCB.

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Leader Humility and Organizational Commitment: The Role of Psychological Safety and Psychological Availability

The study sought to analyze the mediating role of psychological safety and psychological availability on the leadership humility and organizational commitment nexus among employees of commercial banks in the Cape Coast Metropolis. A quantitative research approach and an explanatory research design were employed for this study. Through convenient sampling, a structured questionnaire was used to collect data from a sample of 158 respondents from commercial banks in the Cape Coast Metropolis. The structural equation model was employed in analyzing the data collected for the study. The results of the study revealed a positive and significant correlation between the following: humble leadership and organizational commitment ( ); psychological safety and organizational commitment ( ); leader humility and employees’ psychological safety ( ); and finally, leader humility and employee psychological availability ( ). However, the study found that there was a negative and significant relationship between psychological availability and organizational commitment ( ). In terms of the mediating roles, the study found a partial mediation of both psychological safety ( ) and psychological availability ( ) on the relationship between humble leadership and organizational commitment. The study recommended that the banks should implement leadership development programs that emphasize the importance of humility as a core leadership trait. This will ensure employees’ psychological safety and psychological availability, which will improve their commitment to the organization.

Source: UCC
Leader Trustworthiness and Intrapreneurial Behaviour: the Role of Psychological Safety and Psychological Availability

The main purpose of the study was to analyse the mediating effect of psychological safety and psychological availability on the relationship between leader trustworthiness and intrapreneurial behaviour among employees from the manufacturing sector. The quantitative research approach was adopted for this study. The explanatory research design was adopted. This study was conducted among manufacturing firms in Ghana. A total sample size of 291 respondents was considered. The data collection instrument for the study was a questionnaire. The study‘s objectives were achieved by using the structural equation model. The study found that there was no significant relationship between leaders‘ trustworthiness and employee intrapreneurial behaviour. Also, the study found that there was a positive and significant relationship between psychological safety and employees‘ intrapreneurial behaviour. The study found that there was a positive and significant relationship between the variables. The study found that there was a positive and significant relationship between leader trustworthiness and employees‘ psychological safety. The study found that there was a positive and significant relationship between leader trustworthiness and employee psychological availability. The study found that there was a full mediation of psychological safety on the relationship between leader trustworthiness and employee intrapreneurial behaviour. The study found that psychological availability had a full mediating role on the relationship between leader trustworthiness and intrapreneurial behaviour. The study recommended that organisations wanting to institutionalize intrapreneurship should provide substantial support and potential training to managers on how they can best support intrapreneurship.

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Leadership and Performance of Decentralised Local Government System in The Central Region of Ghana

The study set out to examine leadership and performance in the the Central Region of Ghana. Descriptive survey design and mixed-methods approaches were used. Multi-stage sampling procedures were used to select a sample of 989 respondents. Cape Coast Metropolis, Effutu Municipality and Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa District were purposively selected. Data were collected on regional, district and community actors using an interview guide and interview schedules. Content analysis, descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyse the data. The study found that although mixed leadership behaviours were exhibited in the three study areas, the political and technocratic leaders were generally performance. Differences in perceptions of the influence of the leadership approaches on participation and performance in the three study sites were not statistically significant. The Functional Organisational Assessment Tool (FOAT) framework focused on response to policy and legal mandates with little focus on the influence of leadership approaches on performance. It is recommended that leaders of the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies should involve their followers to enable them demand accountability to improve leadership and performance. There is the need for collaboration among departments in the Assemblies and to integrate assessment of the leadership approaches into eliciting response to performance requirements in the FOAT framework.

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Leadership Behaviours And Employee Innovative Behaviour Of Staff Of Distance Education At The University Of Cape Coast: The Moderating Role Of Organisational Climate

The main purpose of the study is to examine leadership behaviours’ (transformational, transactional, altruistic and network governance leadership) influence on innovative work behaviour of staff at the distance education at the University of Cape Coast and the role of organisational climate in moderating such a nexus. The specific objectives were to examine the relationship between; leadership behaviours and innovative work behaviour, organisational climate and innovative work behaviour, and finally, the moderating role of organisational climate on the relationship between leadership behaviours and innovative work behaviour. The philosophy of the study is post-positivism. The study employed the quantitative approach and explanatory research design. Out of a population of 486, the sample size of 214 was used. However, out of 214, the response rate was 198 (92.52%). The results showed that only transformational leadership behaviour had a positive significant influence on employees’ innovative behaviour among staff. Also, it was found that organisational climate had a positive significant influence on employees’ innovative behaviour. Finally, the study found organisational climate to be significantly moderating the relationship between leadership behaviours and employees’ innovative behaviour. Based on the outcome of the study, in order to sustain innovative behaviours, management should focus on developing transformational leadership skills so as to sustain the innovative behaviours of the staff.

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Leadership Effectiveness and Academic Performance in Second Cycle Educational Institutions: A Comparative Analysis of the Central and Northern Regions of Ghana

Leadership effectiveness has been used in the developed states to achieve success in organisations, communities and industries. Research in Ghana on leadership effectiveness has been at the Junior High School level. To highlight leadership effectiveness in second cycle educational institutions, literature related to the research was reviewed to obtain the views of various authorities. The general objective of this research was to analyse leadership effectiveness in the second cycle institutions of the Central and Northern Regions of Ghana. Questionnaire administration, focused group discussion, interviews and observations were used to gather data from 890 teachers in the two regions. The technique used for selecting the school teachers was the simple random sampling technique. Data gathered were cleaned, coded and the SPSS software was used for the data processing. Parents, students and some opinion leaders also offered some suggestions on the questions administered. From analysis, it was found that the heads employed democratic process of leadership most in their schools. This enables teachers, students, leaders of the non-teaching service to offer ideas for decision-making in the schools. For the determinants of leadership effectiveness, 21 factors were regressed in batches of seven and effective supervision stood out as the most prominent factor. On measurement of leadership effectiveness, results showed improvement in the schools. Useful suggestions including special pension, car loan and housing schemes were put forward as ways of improving leadership effectiveness.

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LEADERSHIP ROLES OF HEADTEACHERS IN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS IN GHANA: “DIRECTING” AND “CONTROLLING” VIEWPOINT

This study examines the leadership roles o headteachers in SHSH in Ghana. The study specifically set out to explore the directing and controlling function of headteachers and as find out whether gender differences exist in the directing and controlling function of headteachers in SHS. A cross-sectional survey was employed in the study. Using a multi-stage sampling technique, 577 and 249 teachers in urban and urban schools respectively were involved in the study. A questionnaire with a five-point Likert scale was administered to the respondents, taking into consideration ethical issues as well as validity and reliability issues. The study revealed that headteachers in SHS, in general, were rated high on the directing and controlling function. Independent t-test analysis discovered significant differences in the directing function, t(824)=33.7, p<.001, and controlling, t(824)=29.63, p<.001, of headteachers in urban and rural SHS in Ghana. The study recommends that headteachers, especially those in rural areas, should be given training intermittently through workshops and seminars. Again, the Ghana Education Service should do well to support headteachers in the rural SHS in terms of finances and also provide much infrastructure

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Leadership Style and Employee Performance at Berekum Senior High School

Leadership styles have been recognised to have immense impact on the performance and growth of employees and invariably organisational performances. However, in Ghana, students’ academic performances have been declining and poor staff performances resulting from unclear leadership styles have been found to be a major contributor. It is therefore relevant to examine the influence of leadership styles on staff performance in Ghana focusing on Berekum Senior High School. The study employed the quantitative approach and causal research design due to its research objectives. The simple random sampling technique was employed to solicit for information from 90 academic staff of the school. However, data obtained from 89 respondents with a 98.89% response rate were reliable and thus used for the study. Both descriptive and inferential statistical tools such as frequencies, percentages, means, standard deviations and linear regression were employed to analyse data obtained from structured questionnaires. The study found that, democratic leadership style was the most preferred leadership style of management. Also, the study found that both transactional and transformational leadership styles had positive significant influence on staff performance at the school. The study therefore recommended that, management should continue to improve upon the democratic leadership style by constantly ensuring representativeness or organisational cohesion. It was also recommended that, policy makers in the educational sector including management of Berekum Senior High School should improve current policies geared towards employee development.

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Leadership Style and Employee Performance at Cummins Ghana

Employee performance has been found to be largely dependent on leadership styles adopted by leaders of various organisations notably Cummins Ghana. This study, therefore, examined the effect of leadership styles on employee performance at Cummins Ghana. More specifically, the study investigated the various leadership styles adopted at the company and how transformational and transactional leadership styles influence employee performance. This quantitative study adopted the explanatory design and underpinned by Fielder’s contingency theory of leadership. Based on the census technique, primary data was gathered from 150 members using structured questionnaires. Accurate and reliable data was obtained from 143 respondents with a response rate of 95.3%. This data was processed using the IBM SPSS Statistics version 24 and analysed using both descriptive (mean and standard deviation scores) and inferential (linear regression) statistical tools. The study found transformational. People-oriented and democratic leadership styles as the most adopted styles at Cummins Ghana. Also, both transformational and transactional leadership styles were found to significantly enhance employee performance at the company. It is recommended to the management of Cummins Ghana that they should develop comprehensive policies and also device strategies aimed at promoting employee development such that the policies should centre on regular employee training packages and career development programmes.

Source: UCC
Leadership Style and Employee Performance at Kwahu Atibie Government Hospital

The primary purpose was to assess the influence of leadership styles on employee performance at Atibie Government Hospital. A quantitative methodology was adopted for this study and this research used descriptive survey design. Two hundred and twenty-one (221) was the total population number and 144 sample size was drawn from the population. A self-constructed closed-ended questionnaire was the key instrument used to collect information from respondents. Descriptive statistics were employed to tackle objectives one and linear regression analysis for objective two and three. The study established that most of the respondents consented with how management of Atibie Government Hospital exhibit both transformational and transnational leadership styles. Also, the study found a weak positive correlation between transformational leadership and employee performance at Atibie Government Hospital as well as between the transactional leadership and employee performance. It was concluded that there was a statistically significant relationship between transformational and transactional leadership styles and employee performance at the Atibie Government Hospital. The study recommends that management of the hospital should maintain credibility in the implementation of the various leadership practices to enhance staff performance.

Source: UCC