Assessing the Effectiveness of National Service Scheme: Exploring the Perceptions of Service Personnel in the Sunyani Municipality of Ghana

Jones Lewis Arthur, Kwaku Amofah and Abigail Owusu-Banahene
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Jones Lewis Arthur: PhD Candidate, University of Victoria, Canada, Senior Lecturer, Sunyani Polytechnic, Ghana
Kwaku Amofah: Doctoral Student, SMC University, Switzerland,
Abigail Owusu-Banahene: Senior Lecturer, Sunyani Polytechnic, Ghana, National Service Secretariat, Regional Headquarters, Sunyani, Ghana.

International Review of Management and Marketing, 2016, vol. 6, issue 1, 16-22

Abstract: The study assessed the perception of service personnel on the effectiveness of the national service scheme in the Sunyani Municipality, Ghana. One hundred National Service Persons out of the 1523 service persons deployed in 2013/2014 service year to the Sunyani Municipality were used for the study. A random sampling method (use of the simple lottery method) was used to select the sample. The study indicated that majority (74%) of the service persons got posted to stations of their choice but, 31% disagreed. The relevance of doing national service is dependent on the satisfaction with place of posting and opportunity to explore and exhibit one’s full potential in the service as indicated by (Pearson Chi-square = 62.443, P

Keywords: National Service; Perception; Effectiveness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M0 M1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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