Otieno Ong’unya Gordon, Abbey Kalenzi, Gatkuoth Ruazel Chan Peter
This study aimed at examining the influence of internal controls on financial accountability in GILGHS, Uganda. The study’s research design was cross-sectional. The study findings were derived from a sample of 127 health centers (unit of analysis), whose heads of department formed unit of inquiry. Data were amassed from respondents through questionnaires and their responses were aggregated to their corresponding health centers. SPSS was utilized to execute correlation and regression analysis. Subsequently, the findings demonstrated that internal controls positively and significantly predicted financial accountability. The implication is that GILGHS authorities need to reinforce a strong-willed internal control system to improve their financial accountability. The study was restricted to cross-sectional research design hence refuted the probability of generality in the context of other research designs. Future studies should consider this study within the perspective of other study designs. Besides, this study was carried out within the setting of GILGHS. Thus, the study appendage internal controls as an essential antecedent to financial accountability in GILGHS, Uganda. Key words: Internal controls, financial accountability, local government.
{"title":"Internal controls and financial accountability in a public health sector: An empirical investigation of a local government in Uganda","authors":"Otieno Ong’unya Gordon, Abbey Kalenzi, Gatkuoth Ruazel Chan Peter","doi":"10.5897/ajbm2020.9060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5897/ajbm2020.9060","url":null,"abstract":"This study aimed at examining the influence of internal controls on financial accountability in GILGHS, Uganda. The study’s research design was cross-sectional. The study findings were derived from a sample of 127 health centers (unit of analysis), whose heads of department formed unit of inquiry. Data were amassed from respondents through questionnaires and their responses were aggregated to their corresponding health centers. SPSS was utilized to execute correlation and regression analysis. Subsequently, the findings demonstrated that internal controls positively and significantly predicted financial accountability. The implication is that GILGHS authorities need to reinforce a strong-willed internal control system to improve their financial accountability. The study was restricted to cross-sectional research design hence refuted the probability of generality in the context of other research designs. Future studies should consider this study within the perspective of other study designs. Besides, this study was carried out within the setting of GILGHS. Thus, the study appendage internal controls as an essential antecedent to financial accountability in GILGHS, Uganda. Key words: Internal controls, financial accountability, local government.","PeriodicalId":7666,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business Management","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135313650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Linan Fan, Wei Wu, Hui-Rong Wang, Xiao-Rong Chang, Liusu Yi
We proposed to identify the general situation and trends in the field of job embeddedness (JE) and affective commitment (AC), given the essential role and association between them. Relevant literature was obtained from the Web of Science Core Collection on December 30, 2022. VOSviewer and CiteSpace were used for bibliometric analysis of authors, countries, institutions, journals, co-citation and keywords. A total of 315 literatures were retrieved ultimately. The quantity of literature and citations showed an overall rising trend from 1998 to 2022, with three fluctuations in 2008, 2013 and 2019. The USA was the leading driving force in the research. The collaborative network highlighted that countries, institutions and academic teams had not collaborated enough. Keyword analysis revealed that the mediating role of JE in turnover intention, especially from a psychology and organizational behavior perspective, is a highly discussed topic, with nurses and hotel workers as the main research targets. Research on JE and AC has flourished, but more theoretical and empirical studies should be conducted to further explore this domain. Emphasis should be placed on employee psychology and organizational behavior in future research.
鉴于工作嵌入性(JE)和情感承诺(AC)之间的重要作用和联系，我们提出了工作嵌入性(JE)和情感承诺(AC)领域的一般情况和趋势。相关文献来源于Web of Science Core Collection，时间为2022年12月30日。使用VOSviewer和CiteSpace对作者、国家、机构、期刊、共被引和关键词进行文献计量分析。最终共检索315篇文献。1998 - 2022年，文献量和被引量总体呈上升趋势，2008年、2013年和2019年出现三次波动。美国是这项研究的主要推动力。合作网络强调，国家、机构和学术团队的合作还不够。关键词分析表明，乙脑对离职意向的中介作用，特别是从心理学和组织行为学的角度来看，是一个备受关注的话题，以护士和酒店员工为主要研究对象。关于乙脑和AC的研究已经蓬勃发展，但需要更多的理论和实证研究来进一步探索这一领域。今后的研究重点应放在员工心理和组织行为学方面。
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The government of Uganda came up with the micro, small and medium enterprise policy in 2015 in an effort to support SMEs for sustainable wealth creation and social economic transformation. However, the SMEs sector has grappled with wide ranging challenges and these challenges therefore threaten the survival of SMEs. This study thus investigated factors responsible for the survival of Uganda’s small and medium businesses and was based on the records of the businesses from the survey done by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics. Business survival was measured from the year when the business started operations to the survey year, 2010. A time-to-event approach in a Cox Proportional Hazard Model was adopted in the analysis. There is a minimum of 1 enterprise and a maximum of 23 enterprises that can survive which were considered to exit operation with business survival was 4.85 years. It indicates a low survival rate of Uganda’s businesses. The rate of exit of businesses was significantly higher for businesses located in the central region, those employing a larger number of employees, those owned by non-Ugandans, those not operating as sole proprietorship and those considered not to be innovative. The findings point to a recommendation of scaling up measures aimed at ensuring that the survival levels of businesses in the country improve.
{"title":"Survival of Ugandas small and medium businesses in a cox model","authors":"Muhwezi Keneth, Kiliman Niclous","doi":"10.5897/ajbm2023.9452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5897/ajbm2023.9452","url":null,"abstract":"The government of Uganda came up with the micro, small and medium enterprise policy in 2015 in an effort to support SMEs for sustainable wealth creation and social economic transformation. However, the SMEs sector has grappled with wide ranging challenges and these challenges therefore threaten the survival of SMEs. This study thus investigated factors responsible for the survival of Uganda’s small and medium businesses and was based on the records of the businesses from the survey done by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics. Business survival was measured from the year when the business started operations to the survey year, 2010. A time-to-event approach in a Cox Proportional Hazard Model was adopted in the analysis. There is a minimum of 1 enterprise and a maximum of 23 enterprises that can survive which were considered to exit operation with business survival was 4.85 years. It indicates a low survival rate of Uganda’s businesses. The rate of exit of businesses was significantly higher for businesses located in the central region, those employing a larger number of employees, those owned by non-Ugandans, those not operating as sole proprietorship and those considered not to be innovative. The findings point to a recommendation of scaling up measures aimed at ensuring that the survival levels of businesses in the country improve.","PeriodicalId":7666,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business Management","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83999459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Competitive action-response strategies of mobile network operators in sub-Saharan Africa","authors":"Dike Max, Iddy Judith","doi":"10.5897/ajbm2023.9464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5897/ajbm2023.9464","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7666,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business Management","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73353271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Moses Agaba, Johnan Turyasingura, Jesse David Kabagambe
{"title":"Stakeholders resource mobilization and sustainability of government funded agricultural projects in Uganda: A case study of potato projects in Kabale District","authors":"Moses Agaba, Johnan Turyasingura, Jesse David Kabagambe","doi":"10.5897/ajbm2023.9454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5897/ajbm2023.9454","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7666,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business Management","volume":"169 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77821212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper investigates how ethical leader influences employee engagement for enhancing the quality of public service in Sri Lanka while examines their customers’ perception of service quality, employees’ perception of the style of ethical leadership, and the level of employee engagement. For that, two questionnaires were distributed. The first questionnaire was distributed through 500 employees in 83 Divisional Secretaries to identify the level of ethical leadership and employee engagement. The second questionnaire was distributed to 2500 customers to identify the level of service quality. To measure these constructs customized scales were used. The results found that, the customers were generally satisfied with the service provided by the public service. Employees in public service were satisfied with the ethical leadership of their administrators and they engage well. The results indicate that ethical leadership and employee engagement significantly affect customers’ perceived service quality and employee engagement is partially mediates the association between ethical leadership and service quality. This study helps to identify the extent of ethical leadership exhibited by public officers, and how it influences service quality through employee engagement. The findings will help the public service to identify its strengths and weaknesses, and will serve as an important source of feedback to the public service that can be used in decision-making processes to better serve customers. In addition, this paper filled the gap in the literature by addressing the relationship between ethical leadership, employee engagement and customers’ perceived service quality. The empirical findings of this will help to enhance the body of knowledge in the area of service quality. The findings will help to uncover the nature of ethical leadership, and employee engagement in the existing public service in Sri Lanka
{"title":"Impact of Ethical Leadership and Employee Engagement on Customers’ Perceived Service Quality: A Study of Sri Lankan Public Service","authors":"Achini Tharanga Wijesekera, R. Lalitha S Fernando","doi":"10.47747/jbm.v1i2.1114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47747/jbm.v1i2.1114","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates how ethical leader influences employee engagement for enhancing the quality of public service in Sri Lanka while examines their customers’ perception of service quality, employees’ perception of the style of ethical leadership, and the level of employee engagement. For that, two questionnaires were distributed. The first questionnaire was distributed through 500 employees in 83 Divisional Secretaries to identify the level of ethical leadership and employee engagement. The second questionnaire was distributed to 2500 customers to identify the level of service quality. To measure these constructs customized scales were used. The results found that, the customers were generally satisfied with the service provided by the public service. Employees in public service were satisfied with the ethical leadership of their administrators and they engage well. The results indicate that ethical leadership and employee engagement significantly affect customers’ perceived service quality and employee engagement is partially mediates the association between ethical leadership and service quality. This study helps to identify the extent of ethical leadership exhibited by public officers, and how it influences service quality through employee engagement. The findings will help the public service to identify its strengths and weaknesses, and will serve as an important source of feedback to the public service that can be used in decision-making processes to better serve customers. In addition, this paper filled the gap in the literature by addressing the relationship between ethical leadership, employee engagement and customers’ perceived service quality. The empirical findings of this will help to enhance the body of knowledge in the area of service quality. The findings will help to uncover the nature of ethical leadership, and employee engagement in the existing public service in Sri Lanka","PeriodicalId":7666,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business Management","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135807739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This study aims to evaluate how EWOM influences Vietnamese visitors' inclinations to travel to environmentally friendly areas. (Which investigates the theories of source EWOM (EW), Environmental Concern (EC), Travel Motivation (TM), Destination Image (DI), Attitude (ATD), and Subjective Norm (SN) and constructs highly accurate structural models (SEM).Design/methodology/approach – An online survey investigated the influence of EWOM and related parameters on the intention of Vietnamese tourists to pick a green tourist location. Using Google Forms, the minimal sample size for this study will be 197 (n=197). CFA and SEM will be run on the data for testing hypotheses. Reliability statistics of the scale will be conducted by using Cronbach's Alpha, EFA.Findings – The findings of this study will help tourism organizations and marketers in Vietnam recognize that the use of eWOM by travelers in selecting a green travel destination is becoming a significant trend
{"title":"Impact of eWOM on The Intention to Choose Green Tourist Destinations for Vietnamese Tourists","authors":"Trinh Le Tan","doi":"10.47747/jbm.v1i2.1061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47747/jbm.v1i2.1061","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to evaluate how EWOM influences Vietnamese visitors' inclinations to travel to environmentally friendly areas. (Which investigates the theories of source EWOM (EW), Environmental Concern (EC), Travel Motivation (TM), Destination Image (DI), Attitude (ATD), and Subjective Norm (SN) and constructs highly accurate structural models (SEM).Design/methodology/approach – An online survey investigated the influence of EWOM and related parameters on the intention of Vietnamese tourists to pick a green tourist location. Using Google Forms, the minimal sample size for this study will be 197 (n=197). CFA and SEM will be run on the data for testing hypotheses. Reliability statistics of the scale will be conducted by using Cronbach's Alpha, EFA.Findings – The findings of this study will help tourism organizations and marketers in Vietnam recognize that the use of eWOM by travelers in selecting a green travel destination is becoming a significant trend","PeriodicalId":7666,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business Management","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136021233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Johnan Turyasingura, Moses Agaba, Jesse David Kabagambe
{"title":"The effect of participatory project design on project success in government funded project in Uganda: A case study of parish development in Kabale District","authors":"Johnan Turyasingura, Moses Agaba, Jesse David Kabagambe","doi":"10.5897/ajbm2022.9427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5897/ajbm2022.9427","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7666,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business Management","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90366331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An assessment of the impact of quality service on customers satisfaction and loyalty in selected hotels in Tamale Metropolis, Northern Region, Ghana","authors":"A. Sulemana, B. Galyuoni, S. Cowther, A. Issah","doi":"10.5897/ajbm2022.9398","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5897/ajbm2022.9398","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7666,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business Management","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88692037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lending appraisal and performance of SACCOS in district, Uganda","authors":"Moses Agaba, Johnan Turyasingura, J. Kabagambe","doi":"10.5897/ajbm2022.9423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5897/ajbm2022.9423","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7666,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business Management","volume":"108 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89008918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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