ABSTRACT Mergers are hereby undertaken as a form of government intervention to reduce costs and improve service delivery. Mergers are also meant to increase stakeholder value and be prepared to deal with competition decisively. It can be as a result of advancements in technology and the increasing socio-economic pressures. Organizations are exposed to changes in markets, technology, regulatory framework, social environment, competitors which require them to respond timorously. Poor perfo...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the role of graphological features used in the Kiswahili novel Mkamandume authored by Said A. Mohamed. It looked at various graphological features used in the novel and their impact on the reader. The research was guided by the theory of stylistics pioneered by Baally (1909) and propagated by Jakobson (1958), Halliday (1971) and expounded by Leech and Short (1981). More emphasis was however placed on the views of Leech and Short (1981). According to these theo...
ABSTRACT Hospitality in hospitals is increasingly becoming a practice in the healthcare sector in many countries around the world. With the ever increasing number of private hospitals, stiff competition and the changing patient’s needs is compelling administrators to pursue new strategies to remain relevant in the market. This has seen hospitality products taking center stage as an element of differentiation for hospitals’ products in the market. Moreover, private hospitals are increasing...
ABSTRACT Sex education among the youth as been researched on in several churches in Kenya, however, little has been done on what influences the youth into sexual immorality in Redeemed Gospel Church in Mathare Informal Settlement Area in Nairobi County. Mathare Informal Settlement Area has eight Redeemed Gospel Churches which have sex education programmes for the youth. Nonetheless, analysis has shown that youth involvement in sexual immorality is still rampant. This is characterized by the p...
ABSTRACT Economic empowerment of women is part of the holistic mission of the Salvation Army (SA) which evangelizes both in word and deed. The holistic mission of the SA aims at restoring the right relationship with God through redemption from both sin and economic disempowerment. In Kenya, particularly in Bungoma County, the SA executes her holistic mission through redemption from sin and economic empowerment of women using the Women of Worth (WORTH) program. This study explored the contribu...
ABSTRACT This study investigates the phonological processes found in nasal consonant sequences and vowel hiatus resolution of Olumarama a dialect of Luhya spoken in Kakamega County, of Western Kenya. Olumarama is an under described language thus the need for further linguistic description of the language. The overriding objective of the study was to investigate the phonological processes found in Nasal Consonant sequences and vowel hiatus resolution in Olumarama and how Optimality Theory cons...
ABSTRACT Eastern Africa Standby Force (EASF) is one of the sub-regional forces of the African Standby Force (ASF) whose objective is to maintain regional peace and security. EASF structure is composed of three main branches, namely the EASF Headquarters, the Logistics Base and the Planning Elements. The EASF had purposed to achieve full operational capability by developing an operationally ready, multidimensional integrated Standby Force, equipped and ready for deployment by 2015, having atta...
An Investigation Of Word Recognition Skills By Class Four Learners Of Ruiru Municipality
ABSTRACT The need for the identification of all persons in all jurisdictions in the world has become universal. However, the loss of identification documents whether through criminality or negligence has major security implications not only for the individual but also to entities that have perpetuities. Studies have shown that these challenges can be solved by embracing modern technology which many countries including Kenya are yet to achieve. This study examined the factors that limit the i...
ABSTRACT This study interrogates factors that enabled the Kenya-led Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Process to successfully mediate between the Government of Sudan (GOS) and the Sudan People‟s Liberation Army/Movement (SPLA/M). The core element of the study is triggered by the fact that other third parties made several attempts to resolve the conflict but they did not succeed. For instance, President Milton Obote of Uganda, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, the 1972 Addis Ababa Acc...
ABSTRACT This study examined the construction of images of power in initiation male oral poetry of the Sabaot with a view to revealing how this community contests power relations with its neighbours. The study also investigated how this contest of power relations creates or maintains a cultural identity, which like in any other community is derived from a sense of imagined superiority. Oral Poetry is an incontestable reservoir of values, sensibilities, aesthetics and also a genre through whic...
ABSTRACT The Communications Authority of Kenya (2016) indicated a 14.3% drop in courier transactions from the year 2010 to 2015. Further, outgoing international transactions experienced a 20.6% decline. This downward trend has been attributed to development of communication technology and organisational competitiveness which has immensely affected the performance of the firms in this business portfolio. This has led most organisations to embrace certain corporate strategies and partnering wit...
ABSTRACT Small-scale farmers are the centre of concern about globalization because they are the largest employment and small business group among the world‟s poor. More than 80% of Kenyans live in the rural areas and earn their livelihoods in agricultural-based activities. More than 50% of Kenyans live below the poverty level and struggle to meet their basic needs. Therefore the purpose of this study was to analyze of poverty alleviation initiatives among small-scale farmers in rural Naivas...
ABSTRACT This is an analysis of how the style in two works of Shafi Adam Shafi were influenced by his attitudes. This work analyses the style and attitudes of the writer by using foregrounding and deviation as styles of writing. The choosen texts are Kuli (1979) and Haini (2002). This novels were choosen randomly because there was usage of the two writing styles which could be used in this research. The research dealt with foregrounding and deviation of words and meaning in the novels. Then...
ABSTRACT This study investigated soil fertility knowledge and how it influenced the selection and effective use of various soil fertility technologies among smallholder farmers in Chakol Division of Teso District in western Kenya. Chakol Division has a high population density of approximately 427 persons per km2 while absolute poverty levels for the district stand at 56%. Poverty levels have been worsened by poor agricultural production while continuous cropping of land with little restoratio...