AIM To determine the prevalence of burnout among health workers and bankers in Aba South Local Government Area in Abia State. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross-sectional, descriptive study was carried out in 2013 among health workers and bankers in Aba metropolis. By multistage sampling method, proportionate number of the health workers and bankers were selected. The study instrument was Freudenb...

INTRODUCTION Contraception means procedures employed to interfere at one stage or the other with the normal sequence of events in the process of reproduction leading to a failure in conception. It means voluntary techniques adopted to achieve birth control. Its use remains sensitive worldwide. Within the same society, contraception varies amongst people of different socio-cultural, educational,...

Today, e-banking is used as a strategic tool by the global banking sector to attract and retain customers. The present paper is the outcome of an empirical study conducted with the objective of investigating bankers’ views regarding ebanking. It covers bankers’ perspectives on e-banking activities of respondents, impact of e-banking and promotional measures used by banks to promote ebanking. Th...

We examine the tradeoff between having affiliated bankers on board and conservative accounting for mitigating debtholder-shareholder conflicts. We argue that affiliated bankers on board provide lenders with private information and control rights, thereby lowering debtcontracting demand for conservatism in public financial reports. We find that firms with affiliated bankers on board have lower c...

Bankers have a reputation for deviating from standard morals. It is an open question, though, if this claim can be substantiated. Here, it is tested directly if bankers respond differently to moral dilemmas. Evaluations of the moral acceptableness of behavioural options in two trolley cases by bankers (n = 23) are compared to those of ordinary people (n = 274). An apparent difference in respons...

STUDY QUESTION What is the nature of the relational status, reproductive choices and possible regret of a pioneer cohort of women that either considered or actually performed oocyte banking for anticipated gamete exhaustion (AGE)? SUMMARY ANSWER Only half of the women who banked oocytes anticipate using them in the future but the experience with oocyte banking is overwhelmingly positive, with...

Purpose- Work-family balance has increasingly become the epitome of scholarly investigation. This study was motivated to contribute growing debate from Ugandan setting and particularly with a female sample by studying employee resilience. Methods- adopted data triangulation conducted among 397 bankers; where size 196 determined. Data collected using structured five-point Likert-type scale quest...

We introduce a new type of incentive contract for central bankers: inflation forecast contracts, which make central bankers' remunerations contingent on the precision of their inflation forecasts. We show that such contracts enable central bankers to influence inflation expectations more effectively, thus facilitating more successful stabilization of current inflation. Inflation forecast contra...

This study investigated leader-member exchange (LMX) and abusive supervision (AbS) as predictors of psychological well-being (PWB) among bankers. Participants were 299 bank employees consisting hundred thirty (130) males (40.5%) one sixty-nine (169) female (59.5%). Their ages ranged from 26-54years with a mean age 40.5 standard deviation 8.51. The adopted correlation design multiple regression ...