ABSTRACT In spite of having many studies undertaken on performance in Proficiency Examination for Clerical Officers in the Public Service, there lacks a major study specifically undertaken to address the key factors influencing declining performance. This has resulted to a wide knowledge gap among Public Service Commission examination officers on how clerical officers should improve their performance. The purpose of the study was to investigate the factors influencing performance of clerical ...
ABSTRACT Project performance is evaluated differently by various stakeholders of the project based on their expectations in relation to the actual quality; cost and time. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of stakeholder management on project performance with the specific objectives being: to determine the influence of stakeholder need and expectation identification; communication; conflict management and stakeholder participation on project performance. The research adopt...
ABSTRACT Organizational learning(OL) is increasingly being adopted by many organizations in today's fast-paced, highly competitive work world to explore ways to design organizations so that they fulfill their functions effectively, encourage people to reach their full potential, and, at the same time, give their organizations the edge it needs to survive thereby keep fulfilling their purpose. The main objective of the study was to research on the determinants of organizational learning in Ken...
ABSTRACT Enterprise resource planning (ERP) system has been one of the most popular business management systems, providing benefits of real-time capabilities and seamless communication for business in large organizations. However, not all ERP implementations have been successful. Since ERP implementation affects entire organizations such as process, people, and culture, there are a number of challenges that companies may encounter in implementing ERP systems. The purpose of this study was to...
ABSTRACT Sanitation can be considered a private good at the same time a public good, adoption involves social behaviour change, hence can be termed as a social good. Social marketers are playing a great role in changing social behaviors to ensure product adoption. Social marketing is gaining momentum in Governmental and Non-profit institutions for marketing their services, Social marketing techniques are being applied in important areas such as provision of safe drinking water.This study...
ABSTRACT The study aims at analyzing strategic management practices and performance of Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) in Kenya. Due to increase in cost of education and dependency by students on financial assistance from parents, guardians, government and well-wishers, it has become necessary to enhance the performance of Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) in order to effectively deliver on its mandate. This study therefore aimed at establishing how commitment of top level management af...
ABSTRACT Horticultural farmers frequently consider marketing as being their major problem. However, while they are able to identify such problems as poor prices, lack of transport and high post-harvest losses, they are often poorly equipped to identify potential solutions. Mango fruits marketing in Masongaleni ward, of Kibwezi Constituency, is affected by many challenges among them middlemen who get larger profit share at the expense of the farmers who apparently have low level of education a...
ABSTRACT Implementation of capital projects is in line with Nairobi City County’s aim to contribute to the national and county priorities of infrastructure-led economic development. To be able to drive sustainable economic growth, Nairobi City County government develops an annual development plan that is meant to outline the priority projects. The annual development plan at the same time acts as a basis for its medium-term budgeting and spending for capital projects to be implemented and gu...
ABSTRACT Accessibility of credit is vital for the development of any sector in the country. There has been a big challenge in the country in financing the agricultural sector. The research study aims at analysing the various challenges facing accessibility of credit from Commercial banks for financing agricultural sectors in Kenya. The study was carried out in the various Commercial banks in Nyeri County. Kenya has a total of forty three commercial banks. Out of this, Nyeri County has a total...
ABSTRACT Pharmaceutical firms are vulnerable to changes in their operating environment in many ways and these have great consequences on their operation. As a result of this vulnerability manufacturing firms are required to be proactive and able to formulate and adopt appropriate competitive strategies that will enable them to overcome the competitive challenges they experience in the environment they operate in. This study sought to determine generic competitive strategies and the performanc...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to establish the impact of enterprise risk management practice on the performance of the 34 commercial state corporations in Kenya. The study was guided by the following objectives:- to determine whether risk control self-assessment affects the performance of commercial state corporations in Kenya; to establish how identification of risk indicators affects the performance of commercial state corporations in Kenya; to examine whether incident management a...
ABSTRACT The study was undertaken to assess the impact of foreign direct investment on the growth of selected flower firms in Naivasha, Kenya. The broad objective of the study was to assess the impact ofFDI on the growth of selected flower firms in Naivasha, Kenya. More specifically, it sought to assess the relationship between technology transfer, technical assistance and capital investment and growth of the flower firms. The research design method used was sample survey since its inexp...
ABSTRACT Despite advances in project management methodologies many projects continue to fail. A project’s success or failure is in part, contingent on effectively managing the constraints of scope, time, costs, and quality expectations. In order to achieve this, it is essential that the project manager possess and display appropriate project management leadership. The study identified four aspects of leadership and investigated their effect on performance of projects. The specific objectiv...
ABSTRACT The dynamic nature of business operating environment has called on business leaders to be strategic in their leadership roles if they are to sustain their competitiveness into the unforeseen future. Growth is important in Sacco’s because it is future oriented establishing ways in which the organizational operations can be aligned to future changes in the business environment to ensure that competitiveness is sustained. The SACCOs in Kenya have experienced problems in the past; some...
ABSTRACT Project implementation by Safaricom limited has been a major concern to project teams, financiers and beneficiaries. This may be attributed to the fact that a number of projects that have been rolled out have failed to achieve the desired goals. Some have stalled at different stages of their development while others are completed but do not bring the anticipated impact whether financial, social, economic, physical or even institutional. Therefore, this study aimed to establish the ef...