ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to identify the natural and socio economic factors that affect indigenous chicken production and the level of their impact in Katangi and Ikombe divisions of Yatta sub county, Machakos County. The study therefore sought to establish why despite the Government, Non Governmental organizations and the communities spending a lot of resources in tackling food insecurity among the local communities through poultry keeping, there has been an increase in the num...
ABSTRACT The Kingdom at Victoria Falls Hotel was suffering from adverse variances in its budgeted fixed and variable costs and EBITDA for the years between 2013 and 2015 in failure to meet the targets. These adverse budget variances were eroding the shareholders’ wealth. The existence and primary mandate for any business establishment is to maximize the shareholders’ wealth creation through adding value through effective and efficient use of the available scarce resources. Earlier schola...
ABSTRACT The Government of Kenya and non-governmental organizations have promoted interventions or projects aimed at improving water situations in the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands though with some low level of sustainability. Initiating projects to ease accessibility to water in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands is a good cause; however, without proper planning and integrated approach that ensures sustainability of water sources and its accessibility, such projects will not have lasting impact. This proje...
ABSTRACT The study explored the lived experiences of underground mine workers at Unki in Shurugwi special attention being on their work-family interaction. The developing portrayal of double worker families, single-parent families and families with senior care obligations, the overflow of women into non-conventional occupations and employments and the expanded association of men in the family area are quite recently a contributing factor of the progressions that have affected family structu...
ABSTRACT This study sought to understand the effects of corporate culture on performance ofwater and sewerage companies in southeastern Kenya . It specifically focused on four water and sewerage companies in Machakos and Makueni Counties namely: Machakos Water and Sewerage, Mavoko Water and sewerage Company, Makindu-Kibwezi Water and Sewerage Company and Wote Water and Sewerage Company . The specific objectives were to analyze the effect of employee involvement, norms and values and organizat...
ABSTRACT The billboard as a medium of advertising has caught up well with advertisers in Zimbabwe and the general public as well. Its main aim is to communicate with road users, pedestrians and drivers. It also aims at reminding customers about a product, attract attention and make them more aware of a product leading to increased purchases. The research was carried out as an investigation on the effect of billboard advertising on company performance focusing more on sales, market share and ...
ABSTRACT Resource Based Performance (RBP) is an innovative construct of an organisation, encompassing strategy, formal structure, and customer to supplier relationships; including innovation and technological capabilities; on which performance is tested. Firm success is not necessarily associated with market power or industry structure, but rather the result of innovation and new technologies which are critical in influencing the dynamics of external environment and competition. In essence, t...
Abstract This study seeks to evaluate the contribution of irrigation farming to food security in Zimbabwe with particular attention to Chikomba district. A mixed methodology that includes both qualitative and quantitative methods was used in the collection of data. Questionnaires, interviews and direct field observations were used as data collection tools. This study identified the crops grown in the irrigation schemes, it also determines the level of productivity and an evaluation on the c...
ABSTRACT The growth of supermarkets in Luanda town has not come without any challenges. While most retail outlets tend to cherish competition and encourage growth, it is surprising that two third of these firms drop out of the growth curve of the product lifecycle this is according to Vihiga county government in the ministry of trade which stated that in the past years the growth in retail outlets presence dropped by 25% citing reasons among them insufficient attention to SCM practices. Previ...
ABSTRACT The researcher aimed at investigating on the effectiveness of cost control techniques on operational performance at Interfresh ltd (Mazoe Citrus Estate). The company has been associated with high repair and maintenance costs, wastage and spoilage cost, labour cost without a proportional increase in revenue and negative significant variance which arose time and again within the department thereby decreasing operational performance. This pointed out that cost control techniques emplo...
ABSTRACT Strategic leadership has been recognized as a major driver of effective and efficient strategy implementation for a long period of time. Strategic leadership can be defined as the ability to influence a group or members of a team towards goals achievement hence successful strategy implementation will highly depend upon the leadership skills of organizing, culture building and working through others, establishing strategic controls, motivating, creating strong fits between strategy an...
Abstract Increasing water productivity is generally explained as either produce similar yield using less water or obtaining more crop yields using the same water resources. Water is becoming scarce due increase in population as well as competition with other non-agricultural demands. At Insukamini Surface Irrigation Scheme, farmers over apply water volumes with the idea that they can increase their yield. However, the Scheme has been facing challenges of yield decline from 2009 to 2014. Thi...
ABSTRACT The current study sought to establish the effect of capital gains tax on performance of real estate businesses in Mavoko Municipality, Machakos County. Capital gains tax was first introduced in Kenya in the year 1975 but suspended later in 1985 with an objective of spurring investment in real estate as well as in the securities market. The real estate property market has been booming since its suspension in 1985. However, after nearly 30 years of suspension by the Kenyan Parliament, ...
Abstract The study sought to determine the relationship between working conditions on job satisfaction in mission hospitals. The research was influenced by a number of hitches, the first one being the researcher’s past experience in the deterioration and poor health service delivery in the health sector in Zimbabwe. Secondly, the need to investigate on the human resource management issues leading to high attrition rate in the health sector. It was realized that there is lack of understandi...
Abstract It is imperative to acknowledge that brand equity is an inseparable part of marketing and essential to the companies to create core-competencies and build strong brand experience that will impact the consumer decision making process and foster customer loyalty, Aaker (2011). This study involves assessing the effectiveness of brand equity on creating customer loyalty at Sign Graphics Private limited, Harare. The study aimed at investigating the relationship between brand familiarity ...