ABSTRACT Employee is a key element of the organization. The success or failure of the organization depends on employee‟s performance. Therefore, organizations are investing huge amount of money on employees‟ training. Despite the fact that training and development is well planned and systematic in the ministry of labour and social protection it still have issues of employees still not performing up to standard operating procedure in the work environment and labour turn over. Therefore, th...
ABSTRACT Continuous environmental degradation has resulted into increased environmental awareness that has led more companies to adopt green marketing strategies. Oserian Development Company limited is faced with many changes and an increasingly turbulent business environment which necessitates the adjustment of its strategic responses and come up with green marketing strategies for dealing with the ever deteriorating environment. The main aim of this research was to determine the effect of g...
Abstract Teacher turnover is high in schools. Teachers in Kenya have always portrayed lack of devotion at their places of work hence the high turnover rate. Therefore, identifying the factors and understanding who leaves, when, and under what conditions is important for policy formulations that target teacher retention. In addition it may possibly lead to solutions to reduce this problem. The general objective of this study was to analyse the factors influencing teacher turnover in public sec...
ABSTRACT Most reform programmes in the public sector that have been taking place in many developing countries over the last three decades are some of the structural adjustment programmes introduced by the world bank dating back to 1980s.These structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) never considered factors like capacity building, continuous innovation, customer centricity, interconnected government and how their mix as a strategy in public management would bring about the long awaited new daw...
ABSTRACT The Food Processing firms contribute enormously to economic development in Kenya However; a critical analysis indicates that food processing firms are experiencing declining performance. Therefore, this study sought to investigate the effect of strategic assets on performance of food processing firms in Nairobi City County, Kenya. Specifically the study sought to determine the effect of Information Technology Capability, Marketing capability, Research, Development Capability, and Op...
ABSTRACT Agricultural activities contribute about 33% of the East African Community‟s Gross Domestic Product (World Bank, 2009), 80 per cent of the populace depend on agriculture directly and indirectly for food, employment and income, while about 40 million people in EAC suffer from hunger. Intra-EAC trade is very low, that is, at 9 per cent of the total regional trade, but it is on upward trend. Agricultural trade accounts for over 40 per cent of the intra-EAC trade. This study investiga...
ABSTRACT Despite data availability on YEDF loan disbursements and repayment, empirical literature on the performances of youth-run enterprises from the loan across various counties in the country remains scanty, yet the basis of sustained YEDF disbursements ought to be youth empowerment. Against this backdrop, the main study objective was to examine the effect of YEDF on the performance of youth enterprises in Marsabit County, Kenya. More specifically, the study sought to determine the effect...
ABSTRACT Total quality management (TQM) has been proposed to improve business performance and received considerable attention in recent researches .Despite the recent research efforts on effects on total quality management, little work has been done on effects of total quality management implementation in performance of microfinance institutions in Kenya, particularly K-rep Development Agency(KDA). This study sought to establish effects of total quality management implementation in performanc...
ABSTRACT The factors affecting Kenyatta International Conference Centre is the implementation of the Kenya Vision 2030 Strategy. This was as a result of organizational leadership commitment, information technology, employees training and organizational cultural values. It is from this onset that study aimed to examine whether the above name factors affect implementation of Kenya Vision 2030 Strategy at Kenyatta International Conference Centre. The research design was descriptive in nature wit...
ABSTRACT Creation of productive and sustainable employment opportunities remains a key policy priority of most countries including Kenya. Employment creation in Kenya has been based on the premise that high economic growth should translate to more employment opportunities. Kenya has experienced varying rates of economic growth. Despite the increase in growth rates, Kenya’s employment elasticity declined from 1.28 in 1992-1996 to 0.5 and 0.38 in 2004-2008 and 2009-2016 respectively. The decl...
ABSTRACT A Kenya National Bureau of Statistics survey of 2009 shows that personal wealth of the top 10% of Kenyans increased on average five-fold over the past decade. The Society for International Development noted in its annual report of 2009 that the gap between this group and the bottom 20% of Kenyans is growing. While we have seen an upsurge in corporate social responsibility and there is anecdotal evidence of benevolence to family and friends, the question remains why this vast increas...
ABSTRACT Taxation has played a crucial role in administering national income and more so in developed countries. Although, both developed and developing countries have intensified measures to enhance tax compliance and minimize reliance on foreign donations and internal and external borrowing, the results of these measures cannot yield the desired results due to high levels of tax avoidance. The main objective of this study was to establish the influence of channels of communication on tax ...
ABSTRACT Organizations are becoming project-oriented thus must continuously change their human resource management (HRM) practices in order to adapt and respond to changing and temporary work schedules. The objectives of this study were to; Determine the influence of management on project performance of organizations within Westlands; Assess impacts of staff welfare issues on project performance of organizations within Westlands; Determine the relationship between technical expertise and pro...
ABSTRACT Organizations are primarily designed to achieve some specific goals. The fact remains that workers in every organization have a role to play for the purpose of achieving goals which organizations are designed to achieve. Directly or indirectly, therefore, workers‟ commitment to the realization of organizational goal is a major parameter that can be used to measure the performance of organization. One of the indices of workers commitment to the realization of organizational goal is ...
ABSTRACT Manufacturing in Kenya has been on the decline for a considerable period of time with its contribution to Gross Domestic Product stagnating at 10 % from 1960’s. According to the Government of Kenya, the manufacturing sector has high, yet untapped potential to contribute to employment and Gross Domestic Product growth. Generally, the manufacturing sectors’ average growth percentage has continued to stagnate at three to four percent over the years. The performance of manufacturing...