ABSTRACT The study sought to establish how voluntary, involuntary, functional and dysfunctional turnover affected performance of employees. There exist few researches and literatures on turnover and performance even though many similar studies have been done in different areas of staff turnover. When organization loses crucial employees, motivation is greatly affected leading to unmet goals, inefficiency, unaccomplished workload and inconsistency in service delivery. The general objective of ...
ABSTRACT The ability to understand and use information from text is a key predict of a student’s success in school learning. Not all factors related to this ability have been adequately investigated. The purpose of this study was to examine metacognitive knowledge and cognitive reading strategy use as predictors of reading comprehension performance among form three students in Lari Sub County, Kiambu County. The study also tested for gender differences in metacognitive knowledge and cogniti...
ABSTRACT This study was conducted on strategic management practices and performance of small scale business enterprises operating in Kitui town. The objective of the study was to establish the strategic management practices employed by small enterprises in Kitui town, and how investment in personnel and skills, reaction to competitor actions,maintaining customer loyalty and product differentiation influenced performance of enterprises. The research involved a survey of 99 small enterprises in...
ABSTRACT Undugu Society of Kenya plays a major role in including CSWs in the current world-wide effort to emancipate the women through empowerment programmes. USK runs several empowerment programmes such as health, education, microfinance, guidance and counselling among others. Despite the efforts by USK to empower CSWs by doing all the positive things that should retain them, most CSWs keep going back to the sex trade. The study sought to assess the effectiveness of these programmes in empow...
x ABSTRACT Over the last ten years, there has been a significant growth in the Education sector. This has been created by the high demand of higher education in the market. Public universities through the joint admission board (J.A.B) can only admit approximately 10,000 students of all the qualified students. This has led to the introduction of private universities which admit the remaining qualified students who do not get to be admitted in the public universities. In Kenya today, the privat...
ABSTRACT This study is on Domestic Debt Financing and Economic Development of Nigeria (1990 – 2004). The research considered the sources of domestic debt financing and their effect on economic development of Nigeria. The study employed a statistical framework to test four hypotheses. Secondary data were used for the study. Multiple regression analysis was used to test the relationship that exists between Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as the dependent variable and sources of domestic debt fi...
ABSTRACT The rate at which the SACCO sector is becoming increasingly crucial to the Kenyan economy is high. The sector provides key in the nation as it controls around 43 per of gross domestic product (GDP). The cross-cutting issues affecting co-operatives are governance, weak regulations and supervision as well as risks involved in investments. Top on the list and one which results to SACCO failures, stagnation and collapse is lack of a framework to ensure enforcement, regulatory and supervi...
ABSTRACT Gender Based Violence (GBV) in Kenya is an endemic that has affected the lives of women across the country. Violence against women can cause long-term physical and mental health problems. Violence and abuse affect not just the women involved but also their children, fami-lies, and communities. These effects include harm to an individual’s health, possibly long-term harm to children, and harm to communities such as lost work and homelessness. As a result many initiatives have been c...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of strategy implementation on performance contracting in Regulatory State Corporations in Kenya with specific reference to Kenya Dairy Board. This study was guided by the following specific objectives: to establish the influence of organizational structure, financial resources, organizational norm and communication on performance contracting in Regulatory State Corporations in Kenya. This study employed a descriptive survey r...
ABSTRACT The aim of the study was to establish the effect of absence of child day care facilities in the .banking industry in Nairobi County. It also sought to establish the extent of the corporation‘s implementation of day care facilities programmes and find out influence on the productivity of the working mothers. The specific objectives studied included motivation, leadership and turn over. The population of the employees of different cadres was used to enable proper representation of a...
ABSTRACT Agriculture is a dominant sector of the Kenyan economy and contributes 25 percent of the GDP. Being the highest foreign exchange earner Growth is anticipated to propel the fulfillment of the 2030 vision. In line with the GoK initiatives various government agencies have initiated irrigation projects over the years, in particular small scale irrigation projects with great emphasis on sustainable development. So that food supply in the country is safe, the government has advocated for m...
xii ABSTRACT As the basic social unit, the family requires protection to ensure that children grow in a well-rounded environment and that they achieve their potential. For this reason, Child Welfare Society of Kenya (CWSK) implements Family Economic Empowerment Projects (FEEPs) with an aim of economically empowering families and making them financially independent. This in turn results to prevention of family separation and breakdowns. However, according to several Annual Reports of CWSK, sus...
ABSTRACT The use of e-procurement is expected to enhance inter-organizational coordination and result in significant economic benefits. Many organizations that have implemented the software have proved to be beneficial. Even though the overall benefits of web-based systems are established, there is a need to understand the conditions that lead to different levels of benefits among different organizations, and even among different business units within the same organization. The government of ...
ABSTRACT One of the major roles that banks in the Kenyan economy play is credit creation. Credit creation comes with risks and credit risk is the most critical risk. Credit risk needs to be management prudently as it impacts negatively on performance. It is thus important to study how various banks manage credit risk for effective policy. This main study sought to find the effect of credit risk management on the performance of commercial banks listed at the Nairobi Securities exchange in Keny...
ABSTRACT The ability to offer fair reward is vital to management if they are to attract, motivate and retain their good employee performance. Farm Concern International (FCI) has been operating different reward system to its employees in different programmes. This has resulted in low overall performance. In order to increase overall performance, FCI management adopted a new strategy of a central reward system where employees were rewarded uniformly. However, the effect of this reward strategy...