In today’s competitive global environment, employee performance is an essential element of a company’s success. Employee performance can be significantly hindered by high levels of stress experienced in the work environment. Stress is a universal element and persons from nearly every walk of life have to face it. Employers today are critically analyzing the stress management issues that contribute to lower job performance of employees. The main aim of the study was to evaluate stress and its effect on employees’ performance. The study was conducted at Ghana Health Service, Wa Municipal. Descriptive survey was adopted as the research design. Purposive and simple random sampling techniques were used in selecting a sample size of 50 out of a population of 100. Questionnaires were used as data collection instrument. From the results obtained, it was evident that there were many stress factors that the respondents endured, and the enquiry proved that stress has an effect on performance. Majority of the respondents reported to work under pressure and that they feel uncared for by the organization. The fact that majority of respondents thought of leaving their job, and felt that the organization did not care about them was a reflection of huge dissatisfaction that undoubtedly lowered performance. It was recommended that Management must conduct an analysis of the organizational mood and climate by assessing the reasons why the employees think Ghana Health Service does not care about its employees and what they can do to change it. It was also suggested that an Employee Assistance Programme be introduced for early identification and intervention on problems so that performance levels do not decrease.Keywords: Stress, Performance, Ghana Health Service Workers, Wa Municipal.

This study shows the state of fraud in businesses in Burkina Faso while diagnosing anti-fraud schemes. Thanks to this research carried out on Burkinabè companies, the results show that fraud affects all sectors of activity. It also exposes the limits of anti-fraud systems, which are essentially: the limits of the organizational framework, the weakness of the internal control system and the lack of an anti-fraud culture. To conduct our research, a quantitative approach is used to collect and interpret the data and the qualitative approach to deepen the analyzes. The results show that fraud is very real and affects the majority of companies: among the causes are weaknesses in internal control systems. To do this, we have proposed ways to identify the risks of fraud, thwart them and prevent them. This concerns particularly the mapping of fraud risks and the implementation of the anti-fraud system.Keywords: Fraud, Business, Prevention, Systems.

In developed countries, public procurement is used to incentivize private companies to invest in innovation. But, governments of developing countries fail to do as much. However, since the size of the market in these countries is small, obtaining and carrying out large public contracts are opportunities that private companies must seize in order to innovate. This present research analyzes the effect of public procurement on the incentive of private companies to innovate. We use primary data collected from private companies participating in large public tenders in Burkina Faso. The results obtained from probit model with instrumental variables (IV probit) show that public procurement effectively exerts positive externalities on the incentive of private companies to innovate. However, to further increase the influence of public procurement on the private companies’ incentive to innovate, the government needs to ensure that the procurement process is free from imperfections such as corruption and information asymmetries that may limit their efficiency in this area. Keywords: Public Procurement, Innovation, Private Enterprises, Corruption, Burkina Faso. JEL Codes: D21, L14, O31.

Cette étude examine la capacité des entrepreneures burkinabè à pérenniser leur activité dans le secteur formel du commerce et des services, sachant qu’elles doivent faire face à différentes formes de subordination et d’exclusion, dont l’articulation complexe n’a pas encore été clarifiée (Marlow, 2019). En tant que femmes, elles doivent négocier les normes masculines du secteur formel. En tant que cheffes d’entreprise établies, elles sont en interaction avec les normes féminines survivalistes dotées d’une véritable légitimité dans le pays. Dans ce contexte, comment naviguent-elles entre ces deux régimes de genre ? Notre approche qualitative interprétative met en regard ce que les femmes disent faire pour pérenniser leur activité et comment elles commentent leur action. Nous mettons en évidence le fait qu’elles parviennent à tirer le meilleur parti des deux univers entrepreneuriaux, masculins et féminins. Cette navigation est possible, car elles opèrent un travail approfondi des normes masculines du secteur formel et des normes féminines survivalistes, en y adhérant et en s’en distançant. Dans ce double jeu, elles éprouvent un sentiment d’incongruité et de duplicité vis-à-vis des deux communautés. Cela peut limiter de nombreux échanges, qui leur permettraient de donner plus de sens à ce qu’elles ont entrepris pour nourrir une vision stratégique.

Cet article tente d’analyser les caractéristiques de l’entrepreneuriat genré au Burkina Faso. Note étude quantitative menée auprès 272 entrepreneurs (hommes et femmes), dévoile que les entrepreneures burkinabè représentent 22% du total des entrepreneurs. Elles sont plus éduquées que leurs homologues masculins. Elles entreprennent majoritairement dans un domaine proche de leur formation. Plutôt jeunes (38 ans) et majoritairement mariées, elles sont en position Pull. Elles souffrent peu du manque d’accompagnement et du manque de financement car elles reçoivent le soutien de leur entourage. Elles dirigent des entreprises de 10 salariés et plus. Enfin, leurs entreprises dégagent une rentabilité quasi identique à celle créées par des hommes, voire légèrement supérieure.