ABSTRACT Despite the government reforms effort in the National Police Service, performance has continued to deteriorate with criminal activities increasing day by day. The Police received an increase of 1,448 crime cases during September to December 2018, marking 7% rise from the 19,815 incidents reported to the police in 2017. Although research has been done on motivation and training, challenges leading to this dull performance have not been adequately investigated and well understood hence...
ABSTRACT Studies on technical efficiency and financial sustainability of firms respectively, have captured the attention of many scholars in both developed and developing economies over several decades. There are patchy empirical evidences however, that link technical efficiency and financial sustainability of small scale agro-processing firms in the context of developing economies like Tanzania. Sunflower Oil Processing Firms are of no exception as the sub-sector is dominated by small scale...
ABSTRACT Institutional inputs are resources invested in the school system to enhance quality. In Kenya quality is measured primarily by performance in education but it can also be measured by availability, adequacy and utilization of resources. There are several ways of measuring performance including achievement in national examinations. The extent to which institutional inputs influence performance in Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) is at variance. In Kenya there are differe...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to establish the influence of operational strategies on enhancement of maternal and child healthcare service delivery in devolved healthcare units in Machakos County. The study objectives included: determining how capacity building mother child care strategy influence enhancement of MCH service delivery in Machakos County; establishing how resource mobilization strategy influence enhancement of MCH service delivery in Machakos County; investigating the i...
Abstract Cassava mosaic geminiviruses (CMGs) and cassava brown streak viruses (CBSVs) respectively cause cassava mosaic disease (CMD) and cassava brown streak disease (CBSD) which significantly inhibit cassava production in Kenya. This study aimed at determining the prevalence and incidence of CMD and CBSD in lower eastern Kenya and resistance response of new improved cassava genotypes. To determine the prevalence and incidence of CMD and CBSD in lower eastern Kenya, survey was conducted in M...
ABSTRACT A SACCO is a financial institution or organization that is formed by members who come together with a common goal or objective of offering savings and credit facilities at affordable interest rates usually less than the market rate among them. Previously the SACCOs have witnessed growth in their operations inform of increased membership, branch network expansions and some starting banking like services (FOSA) in view of increasing efficiency in their operations but due to competition...
ABSTRACT Differential Item Functioning (DIF) is the different probability of responding to a test item by individuals with the same ability level, but from two different groups. The groups may be based on gender, race or disability. DIF can be detected by methods such as Mantel-Haenszel (MH) and Logistic Regression (LR) which classify DIF items into negligible, moderate, and large DIF. Conditions such as Sample size, Ability distribution and Test length may have a significant effect on DIF de...
ABSTRACT The concept of total quality management provides guiding principles and practices to improve the education quality. This study intended to investigate the effects of total quality management (TQM) practices on performance of public secondary schools in Makueni County. The research was conducted in public secondary schools in Makueni County. Fifty two (52) schools out of the three hundred and forty nine (349) public secondary schools in the county were randomly selected for the study....
ABSTRACT An assessment of the influence of strategic plan implementation on service quality in public hospitals continues to remain an area that need to be studied. Public hospitals continue to be blamed by the public for their quality of service yet these institutions have implemented strategic plan aimed at improving the service quality. Many scholars have studied on strategy formulation and implementation but little has been done on the influence of the strategic plan implementation on ser...
ABSTRACT The study was carried out in Dodoma Municipality with the aim of investigating reasons for low youth turnout in general elections in Tanzania taking 2015 general election as a point of reference. Specifically, the study aimed at determining the drivers for youth participation in election campaign, exploring motivations for youth to turnout for voting and mapping out youth’s future political expectations. The study used a case study design which employed both qualitative and qua...
ABSTRACT According to the Kenya Publishers Association (K.P.A) there are forty-one companies engaged in book publication and have a clientele base all over East African Community (EAC) and across the world. The companies have a varied combination of organization structures ranging from Functional to Matrix, and clear expectations on the performance of its staff. The main objective of the study is to determine the effects of organization structure on performance of sales staff among Publishers...
ABSTRACT Service delivery process has not been an easy undertaking since it has been faced by numerous factors some emanating from outside the external environment others from within the organization. This research project was therefore an attempt to discuss the internal organizational factors on the service delivery in Kenya police service as an organization with police commands within Kitui County being the area of survey. This project assessed organizational culture, leadership, resources ...
ABSTRACT The primary objective of this study was to establish the determinants of willingness to pay for AIDS levy by civil servants in Gweru District. A sample of 328 civil servants in Gweru was surveyed by the researcher using two-stage cluster sampling technique. Civil servants were first grouped according to their Ministries representing clusters and then a simple random sampling was employed from each cluster to collect data. The researcher employed the theory of contingency valuation ...
Abstract Governments, are entrusted to actively promote and maintain the welfare of their people, and the Namibian Government is no exception. Governments go about promoting the wellbeing of their people by using many policies within their many respective arms of governance. It can be argued that in order for Governments to carry out their work, they need to move from point to point. According to Sperling and Salon (2002) ‘Enhanced mobility has many positive effects on economic developmen...
ABSTRACT A number of national economic policy inconsistencies have occurred in Zimbabwe since the year 2010. This study was carried out to assess the effect of national economic policy deficiencies on the standard of living of ordinary citizens in Harare Central Business District and the economy of Zimbabwe. The researcher applied the pragmatism philosophy and mixed methods approach whereby a combination of qualitative and quantitative data was collected using questionnaires and interviews....