Employers always seek to engage employees who are fit for the work, able to adapt to the changing trends in the business environment and contribute much to the organizations to the best of their abilities. It is however not automatic for an organization to achieve such objective. They must constitute ...
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Employers always seek to engage employees who are fit for the work, able to adapt to the changing trends in the business environment and contribute much to the organizations to the best of their abilities. It is however not automatic for an organization to achieve such objective. They must constitute programs and measures that would help them realize this goal and take employees to the level that would enable them to give their best to the organization. Using an online survey, a questionnaire was sent randomly to 460 employees within SMEs in Accra Metropolis out of which 400 responded to the questionnaire sent to them. The researcher explored the mediating role of Work Engagement on the relationship between Organizational Career Management and Career Satisfaction. OCM was categorized into three indicators, which are Career Planning, Career Development and Career Opportunity for the purposes of this study. The study revealed that Organizational Career Management (Career Planning, Career Development, and Career Opportunity) have an impact on employees Career Satisfaction and Work Engagement. It further showed that Work Engagement mediates the relationships between the independent variables and the dependent variable among employees in SMEs in Accra Metropolis. In view of this, the study recommends that, in order to promote career satisfaction and sustain work engagement among employees, SMEs should promote and incorporate Career Planning, Career Development, and Career Opportunity into their mainstream activities.
The general concern about the impact of covid-19 which was declared a pandemic by World Health Organization on businesses, livelihoods and economies is what triggered this research. The objective was to find out the impact of covid-19 on the statuses small and medium enterprises in Ghana using SME’s ...
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The general concern about the impact of covid-19 which was declared a pandemic by World Health Organization on businesses, livelihoods and economies is what triggered this research. The objective was to find out the impact of covid-19 on the statuses small and medium enterprises in Ghana using SME’s in the Kumasi Metropolis as the focus of study. The study adopted parameters such as revenue reduction, downsizing, reduction in demand, organizational restructuring, and fear of exiting business to assess the state of the various SME’s. Using a purposive sampling approach 120 online questionnaires were sent managers, supervisors, and business owners out of which 106 which were fully filled used for the study. The data obtained was coded and run using SPSS 26 and results used for discussions and analysis. The outcome of the study shows that the SME’s are battling to survive in the era of this pandemic as revenue reduction, downsizing, reduction in demand, organizational restructuring, and fear of exiting correlated positively to indicate the of the state of SME’s in the metropolis during this pandemic. This means covid-19 have really affected the operations of small and medium enterprises. SME’s must therefore initiate measures that would make them survive in the period of this pandemic and post covid-19.
