Poor participation in strategy formulation and absorption of development funds hinders effective strategy implementation, review and leadership in county governments and ultimately affects effective service delivery. The main purpose of this research study was to assess the influence of strategic management practices on Service Delivery in County Government of Nairobi City, Kenya. Specific objectives of the influence of the practice of strategic planning, strategic leadership and strateg...
It is a fact that success in every organization depends on the quality of its human resources both skilled and unskilled labor. Studies have shown that in today’s competitive business environment, success is increasingly a function of effective human resources management. In the recent past Nakuru County Government faced performance issues. The employees joined forces with the members of county assembly in calling for the Governor’s resignation. This shows dissatisfaction on the par...
Women Enterprise Fund as any other credit business is exposed to credit risks. Credit advanced to women by WEF come along with credit risk challenges. How the fund has handled these risks challenges among women is not adequately researched compared to other enterprises or corporations. To the researcher knowledge, there is little documented study done on effect of credit risk management on loan performance of Women Enterprise Fund, much of the work done relating to credit risk managemen...
There has been a great demand of Kenyan flowers which has put pressure on producers to meet the ever growing demand in Europe.Kenya has been faced with fierce competition from other flower exporting countries, namely Colombia, Ethiopia, and Israel. A number of flower firms in the country are trying to implement strategies that deliver competitive advantage such as increasing production, cutting costs and complying with the cut-flower industry standards. Business environmental challenges ...
Ergonomics is about how key components of an office, for example, physical work settings,unique characteristics of an employee, organizational characteristics andworkstation equipment are customized to fit and improve representative wellbeing and execution. The relationship between office ergonomics and employee productivity has not been exhaustively explored and research already done has not shown how these ergonomic aspects influence productivity.This study therefore sought to investig...
Credit risk is on an increasing rate and is becoming an area of concern to many people and institutions in the lending business globally. This kind of exposure leads to instability and poor financial performance of microfinance institutions. Microfinance institutions are exposed to credit risk and therefore it is important for them to come up with mitigation strategies. The current study sought to find out the effects of credit risk mitigation strategies on the profitability of microfina...
With the growing liberization of trade and business in Kenya, many manufacturing firms are now able to produce and bring to the markets broad varieties of products. On the other hand consumers have become more knowledgeable and are seeking lot of information before purchase and consumption of products and services. In detergent market particularly, manufacturers are nowadays increased due to the level of increased demand for detergents induced by the improved lifestyles of the consumers...
Many companies make investment to sponsor the big sports events such as Olympics, world Cup and popular sports games. Effective promotional strategy involves strategic decisions about five factors target audience, objective of the promotion effort, nature of the product, stage in the product life cycle and amount of money available for promotion. The general objective of the study was to establish the effects of sports sponsorship on performance of Kenyan firms. The study sought to analy...
The main goal of every microfinance institutions is to maximize profits in order to maintain their financial stability, improve growth and sustainability. However, high levels of loan delinquency create credit volatility which constrains the ability or capacity to offer credit to borrowers because microfinance institutions have to compensate loan delinquency losses. Microfinance institutions lend money to lower tier people in the society who are prone to credit risk due to their nature o...
In keeping with the advancement in technology, savings and credit cooperative societies have in the recent past undergone major technological leaps in the provision of banking services by adoption of mobile banking technology. This model of banking was particularly useful in providing efficiency and accessibility of banking services without the barriers of location and time. Many studies have been done to assess the effect of mobile banking on financial inclusion but not many studies hav...
The promulgation of a new constitution of Kenyan on 31st August 2010 effectively created two levels of government; the national and county governments. Provision of health services is one of the functions that were devolved to the county government amid resistance from the health care workers’ unions. Devolution of health functions was aimed at improving access to more equitable and high quality health services to the Kenyan citizens. The health sector, therefore, embarked on review o...
This study analyses the relationship between corporate social responsibility and brand equity of Universities in Kenya. Many corporations seem to engage in socially responsible behavior as part of their normal business operations. The socially responsible activities include positive actions towards economic, social and environmental concerns of the society in which the firm operates. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) integrates these concerns into the corporate strategy and operation...
This study aimedtoexamine theeffect of corporate governance on financial performance of Energy sector state corporations in Kenya. Specifically, the study sought to examine the role of internal controls, stakeholder management, organizational culture and leadership on the financial performance of Energy sector state corporations in Kenya. Since the study sought to obtain its data from senior management team in charge of the various activities and departments in energy sector state corpor...
Induction training is absolutely vital for new starters in an organization. Good induction training ensures new recruits are settled down quickly, comfortably and happily to a productive role. Poorinduction training for new recruits may increase the risk of the problems like poor performance, low job satisfaction, absenteeism and resignations or dismissals. However, the aspect of induction training and its effect on employee retention among university staff in Kenya has not received consi...
Internal credit rating (ICR) was used in evaluating the level of risk associated with a loan applicant and assign probabilities that an applicant with a given credit score would be good or bad. It could also be used as abasis for loan approval, pricing, monitoring and capital allocation. Lending difficulties may arise due to Internal Credit Rating (ICR) systems failure to consider and analyze potential borrower’s information before loans are approved and released to them, making loan m...