A review of meta-analyses and various constructs relating to ethical leadership as presented in prior studies indicate a gap in endeavors to link ethical leadership practices and financial performance of listed firms in Kenya. This study attempted to address this gap. This study was inspired by the emerging ethical issues in the contemporary business environment as witnessed in listed firms, both regionally and locally. The study sought to evaluate the influence of various ethical leader...
ABSTRACT Malaria incidence threatens human existence and reduces economic prospects in countries with high prevalence. Physical challenges caused by malaria can be a limitation to employment probability in the labour market. The co-existence of malaria with high rate of poverty in Nigeria has implications on income loss. While the direct (treatment) and indirect (productivity loss) cost burden of malaria in relation to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been examined in Nigeria, its effects ...
The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of strategy implementation on performance of mobile commerce (M-Commerce) in Kenya’s commercial banks. This study was based on the view that effective strategy implementation influences performance. The main objective of this study was to establish the strategy implementation influence of leadership, structure, information systems, human resources and strategy communication on m-commerce performance in Kenya’s commercial banks....
The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors leading to strategy implementation gaps in Kenyan commercial banks. The specific objectives of the study were to find out how organizational policy framework leads to strategy implementation gaps, assess the relationship between environmental dynamism and strategy implementation gaps and establish how Performance Management leads to strategy implementation gaps. The study also sought to examine how Organizational Resources contribute to...
ABSTRACT The study focused on the relationship between oil exploration activities and land conflicts in Buseruka Sub-county. The study objectively sought to; examine the extent to which seismic survey activities contribute to land conflicts in Buseruka Sub-county in Hoima district; to assess how exploratory well drilling activities contribute to land conflicts in Buseruka Sub-county in Hoima district; and, to find out how building of roads contribute to land conflicts in Buseruka Sub-county ...
Cash holding has received considerable attention worldwide due to concern that firms are holding ―too much‖ liquidity in spite of the fact that cash is a low return asset. Recent research has been centered on establishing whether firm characteristics determine its cash holding. This study was undertaken due to the mixed results in the findings in earlier studies carried out on the international scene and limited research on the subject locally. The main purpose of this study was to e...
This study sought to examine the influence of internal resources on the strategic posture that business hotels took. Internal resources were determined as physical facilities, managerial competences, business processes and technology. The study subjected the internal resources to the strategic posture dimensions of risk, proactivity, innovation and competitive aggressiveness to examine proactive or reactive posture. The moderating variable was organizational culture, which is also an int...
Introduction The agricultural sector is the backbone of many developing countries and is regarded as “Africa’s Bread Basket” (Salami, Kamara and Brixiova, 2010). The sector is favorable to many Sub-Saharan countries because it absorbs high numbers of uneducated employees and there is high level of arable land, regular rainfall and high mineral deposits (LakerOjok, 2012). Small and Medium-sized Agribusiness Enterprises (SMAEs) play a vital role in the economic development of nations and...
Introduction This study examines how leadership competencies influence sustainable funding of NonGovernmental Organisations (NGOs). Accordingly, competencies of NGO leaders are conceived as the independent variable while sustainable funding of NGOs will be the dependent variable. Leadership Competencies is measured in form of skills and behaviours which include ability to communicate vision, identifying and exploiting opportunities, inspiring teams, motivation of staff, relationship manageme...
The Sub-Saharan Africa trails other regions about key human development indicators, produces less than 1 percent of the global research output despite having 12.5 percent of the global population. If the region is to advance on its human capital developmentindicators, it must embrace action research in taking advantage of the untapped opportunities existing. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effects of strategic leadership on organizational performance in private universities...
ABSTRACT The study sought to establish the effect of outsourcing on institutional performance in public institutions and it used Uganda’s National Planning Authority as a case study. The objectives were to ascertain the relationship between the dimensions of the independent variable (outsourcing) and the dependent variable (institutional performance). The study adopted a cross-sectional survey (mixed methods) design and the sample size was 71 respondents. The researcher used a questionnair...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the organizational factors that influence the performance of employees at the College of Computing and Information Sciences (COCIS), Makerere University, Kampala. The objectives of the study were: to examine how organizational culture influences employee performance at COCIS, Makerere University; to establish the relationship between organizational communication and employee performance at COCIS, Makerere University; and to find out how organizational commitme...
ABSTRACT The study examined the relationship between oil management and the resource curse in Hoima District. The study was premised on three specific objectives: to analyze the relationship between planning for oil exploration/production and a resource curse in Hoima District, to examine the relationship between coordination of oil exploration/production and a resource curse in Hoima District and to assess the relationship between monitoring of oil exploration/production and a resource curs...
Introduction This study seeks to examine the interaction of manufacturing paradigms of lean, agile and their combination (leagile manufacturing) with plant performance of firms in developing countries. This is topic that has been debated in a number of previous studies (Arnab , 2012; Mattias & Jan , 2009; Helio, Goran, & Vaibhav, 2012; Thaeir, 2014; Rajesh & Charlene , 2007). Most of the contribution made in these previous works has majorly focused on experiences of firms in developed countr...
Introduction Water scarcity experience is severe in many of the emerging economies globally, with about 1.2 billion people, who do not have access to safe water. It is estimated that, more than 1 billion people who do not have access to safe drinking water and domestic use live in Africa and yet water is insurance to life (Heinrich Boll 2014) The effective Governance Systems and Sustainability of Rural Deep Underground Water Sources concept is crucial and calls for sense of citizen based par...