ABSTRACT The Kenyan Government acknowledges that over the years there has been poor performance in the public sector, especially in the management of public resources which has hindered the realization of sustainable economic growth. Work-place stress has received a great deal of attention in social psychological research. Significant research findings have documented that prolonged stress has negative effects on individual health as well as on employee attitudes towards the organization. Em...
ABSTRACT The economic aspect of any nation is strengthened by a well-regulated and managed banking sector. Most commercial banks in Kenya are faced with low financial performance because of capital deficiency, liquidity deficiency and non-performing loans due to defaulted loans. This study examined the relationship between asset securitization and financial performance of listed commercial banks in Kenya. The objectives of the study assessed the influence of asset-based securities, mortgage ...
ABSTRACT The public transport sector in Kenya is dominated by Matatus. Matatus plays a crucial economic role in facilitating the movement of people and goods. However, despite the positive contribution to the economy, the Matatu industry is facing challenges of poor performance and lack of discipline. The research gap that the study sought to address is the lack of studies investigating the role of ethical leadership on the relationship between dynamic capability and the performance of Matat...
ABSTRACT Employee retention is a major concern for many private and public organizations today. This is particularly so because it reduces costs associated with recruitments arising from high employee turnover. However, public sector such as the County government of Meru has recently suffered from losing good talents to other organizations; a situation which motivated the carrying out of this study with a view to recommend solutions to this challenge. This study sought to investigate the rel...
ABSTRACT The dynamism of growing competition and the environmental organisations have to work together to win customers’ attention. Insurance is a quality dependent service where the service and the service provider are inseparable, hence the need for insurance companies to manage external market performance individually by changing the way contact employees engage with the external customer (Internal Marketing). Insurance firms in Kenya posted mixed signal of profitability and fluctuating...
As a substitute way of getting funding for proper functional of banking operations, commercial banks issue these bonds to clients. They do this with a promise that the bank will be paying interest after a certain duration of time depending on the type of corporate bond being issued. For the bond market to efficiently develop, conditions such as a developed money market, suitable trading structure, rules and laws that are favorable and realistic macroeconomic policies have to be put into place...
ABSTRACT Approximately 63% of the Kenyan population draws their livelihood directly or indirectly from co-operative based activities. Kenyan Marketing Co-operatives provide opportunities for employment, resource mobilization and suitable structured development all aimed at reduction of poverty levels and impacting positively on the lives of people. The above goals are greatly hampered by the myriad of challenges faced by Primary Marketing Co-operatives resulting to slow growth, underperforma...
Making effective and well-informed investment decisions cannot be emphasized enough because many reasons that are responsible for a firm’s achievement or failure are mostly attributed to the quality of decisions made. This is because when incorrect investment decisions are executed, they may be unchangeable, and if the firm continues and reverses them the outcomes may result in bigger losses. Therefore, this is the reason that this research sought to investigate factors that are affecting i...
ABSTRACT In recent years, financial literacy has come to play an important role in financial reforms across the world. Modern technological developments and market liberalization have resulted in complicated financial products. There is the perception of inadequate and even total lack of financial literacy, hence to solve this many organizations have invested resources to financial education programs, targeting to access majority of the population in future. The objective of the research was ...
Open membership policy can be a contributory factor when it comes to loan performance in SACCOs and improvement of the same. Taking into consideration opening the bond to outsiders and allowing them to becoming members of SACCO’s even if they do not belong to such a community would increase the share capital volume, loan application volume, interest grown on loans and credit worthiness is also boosted. The study was motivated by the competition in the financial institutions and since SACCOs...
ABSTRACT Globally, education plays a fundamental role in human capital development in both developed and developing countries. Consequently, the performance of the higher education institution worldwide is of great interest to any stable state. However, there have been growing concerns over the performance of the universities globally. Though it is evidence in literature that performance excellence of any organization depends on a number of factors; social factors, environmental and culture ...
ABSTRACT Management uses strategy formulation to measure negotiated performance goals. Formulation of strategy occurs at corporate, business and functional levels. Strategy formulation is anchored in what way to exploit the power and eliminate obstruction that inhibit sharing and creation of innovative information, thus proper formulated strategy enhances output in public institutions through enhanced profitability, efficiency and competitive advantage. Challenges faced in strategy formulati...
ABSTRACT Kenya is the world’s top performer in terms of real estate transparency and there has been a phenomenal growth in real estate investment in Kenya in the last ten years (2005-2016), with returns that way outdo the returns in the security markets. Despite this, in Kenyan market, which yields a 6% returns in East Africa remains the fastest growing compared to other emerging markets in Uganda and Tanzania. This study explored the behavioural biases of real estate investors in the Keny...
The emergence of underground economy which majorly deals with cash has led to the evolution of another category of tax fraud method because this kind of businesses does not leave a trail of any transaction making it easy to evade tax and conceal the practice. Underground economies are reluctant to transact using electronic funds transfer, credit and debit cards, does not issue invoices or cheques. Tax fraudsters manage to remain one step ahead also by using services of well-heeled lawyers and...
Coffee farming has shown to be two to four times more effective in raising the incomes of the poor than non-agricultural activities. However, the full potential of coffee production has been facing several challenges. This study analyzed strategies for reviving coffee production in cooperative societies in Meru county Kenya. The objectives of the study were to evaluate the influence of land ownership, coffee financing, coffee pricing, and corporate governance in cooperative societies on reviv...