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This paper assessed the benefits that disputants, legal practitioners, judicial service personnel and legal aids gain from using mediation in resolving disputes. A sample of 60 disputants, 48 legal practitioners, 81 judicial servi...
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This paper assessed the benefits that disputants, legal practitioners, judicial service personnel and legal aids gain from using mediation in resolving disputes. A sample of 60 disputants, 48 legal practitioners, 81 judicial service personnel and 10 legal aids officials were sampled for the study in Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana. Both primary and secondary data sources were used in gathering data. It was found that mediation is very useful for both disputants and legal practitioners as it was less expensive, very time efficient, and improved upon disputants’ relationship even after the process. The outcome of the process was also found to be very confidential and non-adversarial unlike that of litigation proceedings. On the contrary, the paper revealed some setbacks: there were fewer offices for the hearing sessions which often delayed the mediation process. Also, less professional mediators were available and not given enough incentives to motivate them help the disputants. Finally, the findings show that although disputants may initially feel hesitant and uncomfortable about alternative dispute resolution process, they later often found it very useful. Hence, they recommended it to court users, friends and relatives.
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Small and medium businesses (SMEs) are critical to any country’s national economic development. On the other hand, SMEs confront a considerable difficulty in succession planning: the lack of or inefficiency/ineffectiveness of suc...
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Small and medium businesses (SMEs) are critical to any country’s national economic development. On the other hand, SMEs confront a considerable difficulty in succession planning: the lack of or inefficiency/ineffectiveness of succession planning. As a result, this quantitative correlational study aimed to evaluate the influence of succession planning on the growth of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the Brong Ahafo region of Ghana. To reach the research goal, the study used a quantitative correlational research design. Data were collected from 140 respondents involved in SMEs from nine district s and municipal assemblies from the Bono, Ahafo and Bono East Regions of Ghana. The results revealed that most of the respondents, 113 (80.64%), ag reed that employees or possible successors might leave the organisation for a better offer and 106 (75.71%) respondents indicated that owners of SMEs do not think about succession plan until there is a crisis. The results also showed that succession plan explains nearly (50%); thus, half the chance s of survival of an SME in the Bono, Ahafo and Bono East regions are dependent on succession planning. There was a significant difference in succession plan practices a mong the different year groups of SMEs. The result also demonstrated no statistically significant difference in the service and manufacturing industries’ succession planning practices among the SMEs surveyed. It is recommended that business owners, policymakers and the state should support SMEs in succession planning development. If possible, succession planning should be part of the school curriculum and entrepreneurship training programmes in schools and business institutes. This will build the capacity of prospective business owners and create awareness about the effects of succession planning on the growth of organisations.
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