ABSTRACT The right to health care is one of the most fundamental rights for all citizens in a country because it leads to the well-being of people consequently leading to economic growth and development. Despite the commitment of Kenya government to provide equitable, affordable and quality health care by boosting resources in the health sector the public health institutions, have not yielded the expected performance. This study therefore investigated the effect of strategic resources on the ...
xi ABSTRACT The Kenyan monetary sector has experienced huge changes over the most recent two decades. A ton of changes have been embraced in the segment that have prompted expansion of money related products, exercises and authoritative structures that have enhanced and expanded the productivity of the budgetary framework. Advances in innovation and changing financial conditions have made driving force for this change. Because of serious global rivalry, divided and requesting markets and the ...
ABSTRACT Projects in commercial banks are directed towards serving customers more efficiently and effectively and reduce costs for the banking institution. However, a number of projects in the Kenyan banking industry show that successful project implementation is a problem. Failure of such projects therefore impacts negatively on the customers as they do not get what they should from commercial banks culminating to business loss and customer inconvenience. The purpose of the study was to es...
ABSTRACT HIV/AIDS prevalence within the two counties that constitute the Catholic Diocese of Homa Bay remains high despite numerous interventions and generous resource allocation both from the central and devolved governments as well as donor agencies. This study assessed the performance of health strategies in reducing Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome prevalence as enshrined in the 2012 – 2016 Strategic Plan of the Catholic Diocese of Homa Bay. The four strategies are; health educati...
ABSTRACT Employees across the world often face several challenges in order to manage work life balance, ranging from matters concerning their private lives and families. Such challenges have resulted in stress, burn out, dissatisfaction among employees, poor employee performance, low organisational productivity as well as a lack of proper organisational direction. In an attempt to implement work life balance, private universities have experienced challenges. Nonetheless, private universities�...
ABSTRACT There has been great variation in organizational performance of independent regulatory agencies in Kenya, with some exhibiting exceptional outcomes in delivering on their mandates, while others are performing dismally. Previous researches have demonstrated that top management team characteristics affect organizational performance. This study purposed to investigate the effect of strategy execution and legal environment on the relationship between top management team characteristics a...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to investigate the determinants leading to high labour turnover of domestic workers in Lucky summer estate in Ruaraka constituency. The overall objective of the study was to establish the reasons that lead to high labour turnover among domestic workers in Lucky summer estate in Ruaraka constituency. The study was seeking to establish if poor pay, mistreatment and working conditions lead to high labour turnover. Target Population was 500 house helps in Luc...
ABSTRACT Studies have shown that around 60% of SMEs fail to go past the third of operation in Kenya. SMEs are important in Kenya’s economy. This is because they contribute significantly towards the GDP and employ a good number of people. This implies that SMEs are important and should be taken seriously. Many women entrepreneurs cite factors such as failure to access finances, lack of management training and cultural issues among others, as a reason for failure of their enterprises. At the ...
ABSTRACT Workforce diversity management has been shown to directly influence performance of employees in organizations. In Kenya however, this concept has not been adopted in many organizations. The study was conducted at the National Biosafety Authority in Nairobi, Kenya. The general objectives of this study were to determine if performance of employees was impacted by managing different aspects of workforce diversity such as age, gender, marital status and educational background. The speci...
ABSTRACT The Kenyan mortgage market has experienced slow growth over the last few years despite the upsurge of mortgage payments. The uptake of mortgage loans in the country is still considered low. Although the mortgage market is considered underdeveloped, it has the potential to grow and is important for housing and economic growth in Kenya. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of macroeconomic variables on mortgage uptake for commercial banks and mortgage finance companies i...
ABSTRACT Banking institutions encounter a lot of problems ranging from debt crises to exponentially increasing rivalry in the market which affects their performance significantly. Currently, customers of financial institutions are well informed and have all the information regarding the operations of such institutions and as a result they have created brand and product loyalty. This has been escalated by the introduction of mobile banking services in financial transactions and hence financial...
ABSTRACT Globally, organizations are constantly trying to find ways of improving their performance. To achieve this, many of them try to transform themselves by effecting change within the organization. For implementation of change to be executed successfully, the human capital should, as a matter of necessity, accept and support the change. Change management practices support behavioral and organizational adjustments thus ensuring that change is accommodated and sustained in the organization...
ABSTRACT Listed Commercial Banks still control financial intermediation channel in emerging market economies such as Kenya. After the 2007-2009 global financial crisis, financial institutions, regulators, and policy makers, in recent years have heavily invested in reforms aimed at improving bank stability. The study sought to evaluate the effect of financial inclusion on bank stability of commercial banks listed in Nairobi Securities Exchange, Kenya. Evidence indicates that financial inclusio...
xiii ABSTRACT Performance of any project is deemed as a source of concern to both the private and public sector clientele. Project success needs creating a well detailed and planned project plan and also understanding the key success factors. Delays in implementation of a project are dangerous which quite often result in cost overrun, time overrun, disputes and in some cases total abandonment of projects. The key objective of this research study was to establish institutional factors affectin...
Abstract In order to have a developed country, all regions of the country must move forward in uniform speed and uniform levels. Local government has been a system of central govenrmnet through which it could distribute its public goods to all its systems. Through the local government the central government can be centralized some of the services which otherwise could be sort from the country‟s headquarters a situation which is not only cumbersome but it‟s also wasting and hence inefficie...