Assessing the Impact of Work-Related Attitudes on Performance in the Private and Public Sector of Employment in Ghana

This paper examines employee attitudes and how it promotes overall performance at the workplace. The paper is an outcome from questionnaires administered to 39 respondents: teaching and non-teaching staff in the Cape Coast Metropolis in Ghana. Using Herzberg’s two-factor theory, expectancy theory and theories of job satisfaction and organizational commitment, this paper sheds light on the factors that make employees develop positive work attitudes and motivation on the job, it likewise assesses the place of higher remuneration and effective supervision towards employee work attitude. The findings from the research show that employees in the private sector of employment showed higher levels of job involvement and enjoyed enormous job security than those in the public sector. In addition, supervision was effective in the private sector than in the public sector of employment. We therefore recommend the improvement in infrastructure and the provision of enabling working environment and good working conditions for efficient employee output. Keywords: Public Sector, Private Sector, Attitudes, Performance, Expectancy Theory, Herzberg Theory, Motivation, Supervision, Employees, Environment DOI: 10.7176/RHSS/10-22-12 Publication date: November 30th 202

“Triple Bottom Line” of the 12th Five Year Plan: A Pathway for China’s Identity Construction through Energy Consumption

Change and reforms in the energy structure is realizable when new and renewable sources are developed with the mandate to support a policy on larger-scale basis. Energy consumption and economic development are household names in China and effects of both phenomena are present. For the purpose of achieving a green growth, China’s ambitious Twelfth Five Year Plan (2011-2015) was set to develop a new and renewable energy but faced several challenges due to the diversity and instability of new and renewable energy resources. The plan further stands for the first time, as a national plan that shifts away from development agenda with a focus toward a pattern of green growth. Taking the theory of triple bottom line of social equity, economic and environmental development as a base of the 12th FYP, this paper has analyzed the impact of the plan in achieving a green growth and an identity construction in China Keywords: Energy Consumption, Green Growth, Identity Construction, Triple Bottom line, Sustainability DOI: 10.7176/JRDM/69-07 Publication date:September 30th 2020

There's no place like [your] home: Exploring Somali hospitality as a care-full choreography enhancing Somali Canadian diasporic wellbeing

This article explores Somali hospitality's ontological functions as a cultural custom that functions to enhance the well-being of its (Somali) visitor(s). Interviews with first-generation Somali Canadians (n = 27) depicted Somali hospitality as a choreographed ritual which caters care-fully and sequentially to guests’ well-being. From door to departure, the guest is 'top-down centralized' — the custom commencing first with an attention to a guest's physiological needs (e.g., food, drink, shelter); then shifting to focus on their welfare necessities (e.g., financial, social, medical), and concluding with an implicit awareness of guests' social well-being (e.g., sense of community, sense of belonging in place). During Somali hospitality, both home and host are transformed into material sites of protection, the cultural customs of the homeland providing a buffer against the weight of occupying a multiply racialized (Black, Somali and Muslim) in settler colonial place. Occurring in the private geographies of Somali home(s), the ritual provides Somalis a temporary break from the structural logics of anti-blackness and Orientalism negotiated daily in public space. Through prioritization of homeland social dynamics, the custom care-fully re-positions Somali guests from margin to center — from out of place, to in place. In focusing on geographies of the Somali home and the concealed spaces of racialized Black folk, this work contributes to the areas of Black feminist and Muslim geographies as well as to diaspora research concerned with migrant well-being at large. Most importantly, by highlighting the qualitative intricacies of Somali hospitality, this work validates the existence Black Arab cultural customs, for they remain largely subordinated within and erased from the Arab social imagination

A Systematic Review of International and Internal Climate-Induced Migration in Africa

Academics and policymakers have been paying close attention to the impact of climate change on migration in recent years. This phenomenon piqued interest because the factors driving environmentally induced migration are complex and manifold. Noticeably, there has been considerable scholarship on climate change and migration in Africa. However, there has not been a concerted effort to periodically review the existing literature to systematically document the state of scholarship. Using a standardized systematic review procedures to analyze 22 peer-reviewed studies published between 2000 and 2022, we found that climate change impacts migration in many complex and multilayered forms. Beyond what has already been established in the literature on climate-related migration such as environmental effects on migration; migration as an adaptation strategy; and the influence of environmental and non-environmental factors on migration; we also found that (1) studies on climate-induced migration in Africa intensely focused on SSA, suggesting an uneven study of the region, (2) heavily affected people tend to be immobile, and (3) young people have high migration intentions due to harsh climate insecurities. These findings require urgent government and stakeholder attention. Specifically, there is a need for scholarship to interrogate the climate change–immobility nexus in order to design appropriate in situ or ex situ adaptation strategies to support lives and livelihoods