Staff turnover has been regarded as an overall measure or indication of organizational functionality. When employees are dissatisfied with their job, they tend to withdraw in order to try to minimize their exposure to the job. Staff turnover is further exacerbated by the fact that losing high performing individuals affect the productivity of the organization, as the organization loses the investment that was made in their development. As the percentage of the workforce in the professiona...
Second hand vehicle business is a major sector in Nairobi, Kenya which contributes 8% of total GDP. The sector is dominated by small and medium enterprises. In the recent past, the sector has recorded significant growth and this is particularly due to wide adoption of Ecommerce technologies. Despite the growth, the sector is experiencing several challenges that threaten to reverse the gains made. Through Ecommerce, individuals running small and medium enterprises have direct connections ...
Change is bound to happen in any organization. Yet, nothing causes such anxiety and uncertainty in the workplace as hearing that "change is coming". The main objective of this study was to determine the effect of organizational change during receivership on employee engagement at Imperial Bank Ltd in Receivership (IBLIR). Specifically, the study sought to: determine the effect of structural changes on employee engagement at IBLIR; assess the effect of leadership changes on employee engag...
Law firms, just like other forms of for-profit legal entities, operate with the aim of maximizing profits. Law firms have used various strategies to achieve this goal, in particular and the focus of this study, entering into strategic alliances with foreign law firms with the intention of entering into new markets, increasing market power, acquisition of skills and for strategic renewal. As a result of adopting these strategic alliances, certain law firms have improved their competitivene...
The recent discovery of oil and gas in Kenya is an opportunity to establish sound policies to support the generation of revenue. For citizens not directly benefiting from the oil and gas industry, revenue to the nation will be shared for the benefit of all, including future generations. Protecting this revenue throughout the life of the finite resource then is a major consideration for policy makers. Taxpayers are not always of the same conviction as the Government of the revenue they s...
ABSTRACT The thesis “Impact of Training on Productivity in Enugu State Civil Service, 1999 – 2006” was an attempt to make contribution to the ongoing debate on the Nigerian Civil Service training and productivity that has been raging since the Nigerian Third and Fourth Republics. It is not only an obvious but critical fact that Nigerians both in public and private sectors have become interested on the Nigerian civil service, especially during the civilian dispensation of 1999 – 2006....
Design thinking Innovation is very important for technological hubs to be sustainable in this 21st century. Some of the challenges associated with the traditional innovation approaches include; product centered issues because users’ needs are poorly understood and a lot of assumptions are made to develop a product. As a result, products were not well tested and verified against the expected users’ needs. Industries are adopting design thinking innovation since it has the user at the ...
ABSTRACT The study examined the validity of Friedman’s hypothesis and subjected to test the stability of money demand function in Nigeria over the period of 1970-2006 using the Nigerian time series data. The study applied the Granger causality test and the Distributed Lag Model (DLM) to estimate two distinct equations, while the CUSUM and CUSUM Squares test procedure was used to examine the stability of money demand function. As a matter of necessity, we subjected our variables to time ser...
There has been an increase in the level of competitiveness within the Kenyan financial sector and from external players such as Financial Technology and Telecommunication firms. This has led to increasing technological innovation in the banking industry, which has resulted in the development of digital product provision. Currently, HFC Bank runs the HFC Whizz app, which is a digital lending platform. With more clients on the platform, the bank has been leveraging on credit information sh...
Abstract This research examined safety practices and accident proneness: the moderating effects of attribution style among artisans in Enugu state. Using a cross-sectional survey design, a total of 216 in Enugu within the age range of 18 to 60 years participated in the study. They were welders, mechanics, tailors and labourers in Enugu city. Instruments used to collect date were Accident proneness Scale (APS) by Van As (2001), the Attribution style scale by Anderson (1999) and Safety practi...
The main objective of this research was to investigate the determinants of financial performance of commercial banking Fintechs in Kenya. Three specific objectives of the study were: to assess the effect of capital adequacy on the financial performance of commercial Banking Fintechs in Kenya; to assess the effect of size of customer base on the financial performance of commercial Banking Fintechs in Kenya; to assess theeffect of size of loans advanced to customers on the financial perform...
A key challenge towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in healthcare in Kenya is the low number of a properly trained and motivated health workforce. The ratio of health worker to population served remains disappointingly low, while at the same time there remains a huge challenge of retaining the limited number of health workers at the hospitals. This is a challenge that afflicts both the public and private hospitals in Kenya as many health workers leave their organiz...
Women enterprises are believed to make a great contribution to economic growth of developing countries with about one in three micro and small enterprises being women-owned. This study assessed table banking as a financing option for women-owned micro and small enterprises in Nairobi County, Kenya. The study objectives sought to investigate the drivers of table banking among women entrepreneurs, to assess the member experience of table banking as a financing option for women owned enterp...
Kiambu County Referral Hospital adopted electronic medical records in the HIV clinic for longitudinal follow up of patients enrolled in care. The hospital also implemented CD4 guideline changes on antiretroviral therapy eligibility and a patient escort system to facilitate timely linkage of patients to treatment after HIV diagnosis. This study first evaluated data quality of the electronic medical records database, which was then utilized to assess the effect of CD4 guideline changes and...