Faculty Profile

Justice Nyigmah

Bawole

Title: 

Prof

Role/Position: 

Dean/Professor

Office Location: 

GBS 14, Third floor

Email: 

jnbawole@ug.edu.gh

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Biography: 

Justice Nyigmah Bawole (PhD) is a Professor in the Department for Public Administration and Health Services Management, and Dean of the University of Ghana Business School, Legon. Prof. Bawole obtained a PhD in Development Policy and Management from the Global Development Institute (former Institute for Development Policy and Management), University of Manchester, UK in 2013. He holds an MPhil, BSc. Administration (Public Administration Major) and Diploma in Public Administration degrees from the University of Ghana Business School obtained in 2006, 2003 and 1999 respectively. In 1995, he passed out as a trained professional teacher from Wesley College of Education (Kumasi, Ghana). Prior to his appointment as lecturer at the University of Ghana, he worked as Project Manager of an Accra-based NGO. He has taught at all levels of Ghana’s educations system.

 

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Teaching

Teaching: 

Prof. Bawole teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate levels at the UGBS. Currently, he teaches Management of NGOs, Introduction to Ethics in Administration at the undergraduate level. At the postgraduate level, he currently teaches Issues in Public Administration, Ethics in Administration and Green Business Management.  

 

Prof. Bawole coordinates the Exchange Agreement between the Department of Public Administration and Health Services Management and the Queen’s University, Canada. This programme receives Master of Public Policy students from Queen’s University every year, who take the Africa Public Policy Course at the University of Ghana Business School. He takes students on study tours across Ghana during which pertinent Public Policy topics are discussed. Dr. Bawole also arranges internships for the students in public and non-profit sectors of Ghana.

 

He also coordinates the Ghana field school programme at the Department of Public Administration in the UG Business School. Students from Grand Valley State University participate in this programme annually. Prof. Bawole teaches these students management of NGOs to prepare them for undertaking their community service in the Winneba area in Ghana. 

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Journal Publications

Journal Publications: 

1. Musah-Surugu, I. J., Bawole, J. N. & Ahenkan A. (2017). Migrants’ Remittances and Financing Adaptation to Climate Change at the Local Level: Experiences from Ghana" International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, (forthcoming).

2. Amegavi G. B., Bawole J. N. & Buabeng, T., (2017). The dynamics of E-government enactment in a developing country public sector organization: Evidence from Ghana. International Journal of Electronic Governance, (forthcoming).

3. Bawole, J. N. (2017)). Pro-poor decentralization in Ghana: Examining the facilitators and the limitations. Administrative Theory & Praxis, 39(2), 122-139. Taylor & Francis Publishers.

4. Bannor, R., Asare, A. K. & Bawole, J. N., (2017) Dynamism in health communication media in Ghana. Health Education, 117(4):342-371.

5. Mensah, J. K. & Bawole, J. N., (2017) Person-Job Fit Matters in Parastatal Institutions: Testing the Mediating Effect of Person-Job Fit in the Relationship between Talent Management and Employee Outcomes. International Review of Administrative Sciences. (Forthcoming).

6. Ahenkan, A., Tenakwah Senior. E. & Bawole, J. N., (2017). Performance Management Implementation Challenges in Ghana’s Local Government System: Evidence from the Sefwi Wiawso Municipal Assembly, International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, (forthcoming).

7. Ibrahim, M, Bawole, J. N., Kumasey A. S. (2017). The Legal Regime and the Compliance Façade in Public Procurement in Ghana, International Journal of Public Sector Management. 30(4): 370-390.

8. Mensah, J. K. & Bawole, J. N., & Ahenkan A. (2017). Local Economic Development in Ghana: From the “Lost Decade” to a Policy Maturing Stage. Development Southern Africa. Published online as early cite, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0376835X.2017.1310032

9. Bawole, J. N. & Lagnel, Z. (2016). Downward Accountability of NGOs in Community Project Planning In Ghana. Development in Practice, (Accepted for publication). Taylor & Francis Publishers.

10. Bawole, J. N. (2016). Pro-poor decentralization in Ghana: Examining the facilitators and the limitations. Administrative Theory & Praxis, (Accepted for publication). Taylor & Francis Publishers.

11. Mensah J. K., Bawole J. N., & Wedchayanon N., (2016). Unlocking the “Black Box” in the Talent Management Employee Performance Relationship: Evidence from Ghana, Management Research Review, 40(2). (Accepted for publication). Emerald Insight Publishers.

12. Yarney, L., Buabeng, T., Baidoo, D., & Bawole, N. J., (2016). Operationalization of the Ghanaian Patients’ Charter in a Peri-urban Public Hospital: Voices of Healthcare Workers and Patients, International Journal of Health Policy and Management. 5(x), 1–9. Kerman University of Medical Sciences.

13. Kumasey, A. S., Bawole, J. N., & Hossain, F. (2016). Organizational Commitment of Public Service Employees in Ghana: Does Code of Ethics Matter, International Review of Administrative Sciences, 85 (1). (Published online as early cite, DOI: 10.1177/0020852316634447). Sage Publishers.

14. Yeboah-Assiamah, E., Asamoah K. Bawole J. N. & Musah-Surugu J. I. (2016). A socio-cultural approach to public sector corruption in Africa: key pointers for reflection, Journal of Public Affairs, (Published online as early cite, DOI: 10.1002/pa.1587). John Wiley Publishers.

15. Bawole, J. N., & Ibrahim, M., (2016). Value-For-Money Audit for Accountability and Performance Management in Local Government in Ghana, International Journal of Public Administration, (Published online as early cite, DOI: 10.1080/01900692.2016.1142999 ). Sage Publishers

16. Atinga, R.A., Bawole, J.N., & Nang-Beifubah, A., (2016). Some patients are more equal than others: Patient-centred care differential in two-tier inpatient ward hospitals in Ghana, Patient education and counselling, 99 (3): 370-377.

17. Yeboah‐Assiamah, E., Asamoah, K., Bawole, J. N., & Buabeng, T., (2015). Public sector leadership‐subordinate ethical diffusion conundrum: perspectives from developing African countries. Journal of Public Affairs. (Published online as early cite, DOI: 10.1002/pa.1589). John Wiley Publishers

18. Bawole, J. N., & Ibrahim M., (2015). Contesting Claims on Measuring Performance in the Public Sector Using Performance Audits: Evidence from the Literature,  Public Organization Review, 16(3), 285-299. Springer Publishers

19. Yeboah-Asiamah, E.; Musah-Surugu, I. J., Bawole, J. N. & Nurideen, S., (2015). The third sector and poverty reduction in Developing Societies: Experiences from the Hunger Project, International Journal of Rural Management, 11(2): 85–110. Sage Publishers.

20. Bawole, J. N., & Hossain F., (2014). Marriage of the unwilling? The paradox of local government and NGO relations in Ghana, Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 26 (5): 2061-2083. Springer Publishers.

21. Mensah J. K.; Domfeh, K. A.; Ahenkan, A., & Bawole, J. N., (2013). Policy and institutional perspectives on local economic development in Africa: The Ghanaian perspective, Journal of African Studies and Development, 5(7):163-170. Africa Journals Online.

22. Bawole, J. N., Hossain, F., Domfeh, K. A., Bukari, H., and Sanyare, F. N., (2013). The Culture of Rhetoric in Performance Management in Ghana Civil Service, International Journal of Public Administration, 36(13): 953-962. Taylor and Francis Publishers.

23. Bawole, J. N., (2013). Public Hearing or ‘Hearing Public’? An evaluation of the participation of local stakeholders in Environmental Impact Assessment of Ghana’s Jubilee Oil Fields, Environmental Management, 52(2): 385-397. Springer Publishers.

24. Ahenkan A., Bawole J. N. & Domfeh, K.A., (2013). Improving Citizens’ Participation in Local Government Financial Management in Ghana: A Stakeholder Analysis of the Sefwi Wiawso Municipal Assembly, Journal of Public Administration and Governance, 3(2): 191-210.

25. Domfeh K. A., Ahenkan A., and Bawole, J. N. (2012). Is Sustainable Development Achievable in Ghana? An Analysis of Ghana’s Development Policy Achievements and Challenges, International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development, 11(3): 304 – 317. Inderscience Publishers.

26. Boon E. K., Bawole J. N & Ahenkan A., (2012). Stakeholder Participation in Community Development Projects: an analysis of the quadripartite model of the International Centre for Enterprise and Sustainable Development (ICED) in Ghana, Community Development, 44(1): 38-54. Taylor and Francis Publishers.

27. Bawole, J. N., (2012). Are the youth corrupt? A Study of Ghanaian University Students African Journal of Public Administration and Management, XXII(1):20-36. The African Association of Public Administration and Management.

28. Sakyi, E. K., Azunu R. & Bawole, J. N., (2011). Does Decentralisation Lead to Improvement in Planning of Health Services? Findings from Six District Health Administrations in Ghana, Journal of Local Government Studies, 3(1):1-30. Institute of Local Government Studies Journal, Ghana.

29. Domfeh K. A. & Bawole, J. N., (2011). Muting the Whistleblower through Retaliation in Selected African Countries, Journal of Public Affairs. 11(4): 334–343. Taylor and Francis Publishers.

30. Sakyi, E. K. & Bawole, J. N., (2010). An Assessment of the Impediments to the Implementation of Code of Conduct in Anglophone West African Countries: The Importance of Leadership, International Public Management Review, 11(3): 40-58. Taylor and Francis Publishers.

31. Domfeh K. A. & Bawole J. N., (2010). Ensuring Effective Local Engagement In Poverty Reduction In West Africa’ International Journal of Politics and Good Governance, 1(1.2) Quarter I: 1-23.

32. Domfeh K. A. & Bawole, J. N., (2009). Localising and Sustaining Poverty Reduction: Experiences from Ghana, Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal 20(5): 490-505. Emerald Insight publishers.

Book Chapter

Book Chapter - Edited Books: 

1. Bawole, J. N., Ibrahim, M., Hossain, F. & Mensah, J. K., (2016). Development Management in the Developing World: Past Pathways and Future Trajectories, In J. N. Bawole, F. Hossain, A. Ghalib, C. J. Rees, & A. Mamman (Eds), Development Management: Theory and Practice, (ppx-x), Abingdon, Oxon, Routledge. In print.

2. Bawole, J. N., & Hossain, F. (2016). Negotiating the Maze of Development Actor Pluralism: Actor Interfaces and Development Management in Africa. In J. N. Bawole, F. Hossain, A. Ghalib, C. J. Rees, & A. Mamman (Eds), Development Management: Theory and Practice, (ppx-x), Abingdon, Oxon, Routledge. In print.

3. Kumasey, A., Bawole, J. N., Hossain, F., & Ibrahim M., (2016) Ethics, Cultural Value Systems and Development Management, In J. N. Bawole, F. Hossain, A. Ghalib, C. J. Rees, & A. Mamman (Eds), Development Management: Theory and Practice, (ppx-x), Abingdon, Oxon, Routledge. In print.

4. Bawole, J. N. (2015) Communities and Eco-tourism Development in Ghana: Examining the Impacts of Degradation on Eco-tourism Sites in the Hohoe Municipal Area, In Sakyi, E. K; Ahenkan, A & Bawole, J. N. (eds). Public Administration in Ghana: Selected Contemporary Issues, Accra, Digibooks Publishing.

5. Bawole, J. N (2013), Microcredit and International Development: Contexts, Achievements and Challenges. Edited by Farhad Hossain, Christopher Rees and Tonya Knight Millar. Routledge, 2011. Reviewed in The Policy@Manchester.

6. Bawole, J. N. (2013) Pentecostalism and Development: Churches, NGOs and Social Change in Africa, Edited by Dena Freeman, Reviewed in The Journal of Development Studies, 49(12):1772-1773. Taylor and Francis Publishers.

7. Domfeh K.A & Bawole N.J (2012). The Role of Major Groups in the Management of National Parks and Biodiversity Conservation, In Boon E, Hens L, and Oviedo. G (editors) Management of National Parks and Biodiversity Conservation in Africa, New Delhi, Kre Kamla-Raj.

Peer-Reviewed Technical Reports 1. Ahenkan, A., Bawole, J. N., Twum, E. (2016), National Designated Authority (NDA) of Green Climate Fund: Operational Manual, Accra, UNDP Ghana.

2. Bawole, J. N., Ahenkan, A.; Twum, E. (2016). Ghana Climate Change Project Prioritisation Tool and Guidelines, Accra, UNDP Ghana.

Encyclopaedia Entries 1. Bawole, J. N (2015). School Feeding Program. In M. Odekon (ed) Sage Encyclopedia of World Poverty (2nd Ed.). Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 1372-1374 (Print and web).

2. Bawole, J. N. & Ibrahim, M. (2016) Performance Management and Culture. In A. Farazmand (ed.). Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. (Accepted for Publication). Springer Publishers.

Books

Books: 

1. Sakyi, E. K., Ahenkan, A., & Bawole, J. N., (2015). Public Administration in Ghana: Selected Contemporary Issues, Accra, Digibooks Publishers.

2. Bawole, J. N., Hossain, F., Ghalib, A., Rees, C. J., & Mamman, A., (2016). Development Management: Theory and Practice. Abingdon, Oxon, Routledge. In print.

Conference Proceedings

Conference Proceedings: 

Bawole, J.N. (2016). A bigger master in the Inter-governmentalism game? Implications of the central-local relations on local government and NGOs relations in Ghana? Presented at the 20th Annual Conference of IRSPM 2016 under the theme “Collaborative, Globalized and Interdisciplinary: Moving the Public Management Debate Forward” held in City University of Hong Kong and The Polytechnic University of Hong Kong, China, April 13-15, 2016.

Bawole, J.N. & Farhad H. (2015). Local institutional networks for downward accountability of NGOs: “Weapons of the Weak” Unexplored? Presented at the XIX IRSPM 2015 conference, under the theme “Shaping the future - Re-invention or revolution?” held in University of Birmingham, 30 March - 1 April 2015

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