ABSTRACT Technology iinnovation iis iargued ito ibe itransforming ihigher ileaning iinstitution iin iKenya, iincluding iTVETs, iwhich iare iseen ito ibe ievolving iso ias ito iremain irelevance, ideliver iefficiently iand ienhance iperformance. iUNESCO iglobal irating iranks iKenya‟s iTVET iperformance ibelow iaverage iat i28%, icompared ito iher ineighbours. iMoreover, itheir iperformance iis icharacterised iby iinadequacy iin iteaching iand iinefficiency iin iadministration iof iresources...
ABSTRACT Studies worldwide have revealed that teacher quality as measured in terms of qualification, experience and attitude of teachers play a pivotal role in academic performance of pupils in Social Studies, Maths and English. Indeed, findings from the related local and international evidence-based research indicate that „what matters most‟ is quality teachers and teaching, supported by strategic teacher professional development! The influence of teacher quality in Kiswahili was not cle...
ABSTRACT This cross-sectional descriptive study assessed the relationship between motivation and performance of teachers in private secondary schools in Sheema District, Uganda. Specifically, the study examined the relationship between financial motivation and teachers’ performance in private secondary schools in Sheema District; and examined the relationship between non-financial motivation and teachers’ performance in private secondary schools in Sheema district. Data was collected usin...
ABSTRACT Performance of employees influences the current performance and future competitive advantage of the organizations they are working for. The quality and capacity of work made by employees is influenced by the workplace environment. However, un conducive workplace environment results in low employee output and reduce their job fulfillment. Therefore, if steps are taken to improve employee satisfaction, overall organizational performance is enhanced. The study sought to establish the in...
ABSTRACT Table banking is one of the key strategic interventions in providing financial resources to women globally to engage in livelihood projects thus improving their lives and eradicate abject poverty both in rural and urban slums where poverty is so rampant. Despite the importance of women empowerment in economic growth and employment creation, empirical studies have not shown clearly the effects of table banking on the livelihood of women in Uasin Gishu County thus knowledge on their in...
ABSTRACT Microfinance Institutions services have continued to play an important role in Kenyan economy. It is viewed as the provision of financial services to the poor and low income group. Microfinance Institutions in Kenya have gained wide recognition since 1990’s for the role they play in providing financial services to the low-income households, and their contribution to poverty alleviation. While achieving this poverty reduction goal, MFIs should also be financially sustainable. The is...
ABSTRACT The role of public sector and more specifically the civil service in the effective delivery of public services that are key to the functioning of a state economy cannot be overemphasized. Constrained or ineffective service delivery affects the quality of citizens’ life and the national development process. Expectations from citizens are such that Government will establish and maintain utmost ethicality and integrity in the public sector. This minimum set of principles requires publ...
ABSTRACT Real estate investment trust performance is an ideal indicator of real estate industry as well as the whole economy. Since its onset in Kenya, REIT has been experiencing tremendous rise in profits from Ksh.106 Million in 2016 to 171 Million in 2017 and 193 Million in 2018. Whereas it has been experiencing increase in its profits there has been fluctuation in its stock returns over the years. A Real Estate Investment Trust phenomenon is a new venture in Kenya and Africa at large bring...
ABSTRACT Performance appraisal is one of the basic tools that make workers to be very effective and active at work. If the system of teacher performance appraisal is properly designed and implemented, it is believed to have favorable consequences in the professional development of teachers and ultimately the academic performance of learners. But when it is simply allowed to happen, it becomes haphazard, unsystematic, a source of conflict between appraisers and appraises, and a source of inacc...
ABSTRACT Change management is an emerging tool and is increasingly being seen as a working tool that provides solutions to various problems which may be affecting the organization today. It compasses the organizational tools that can be used to assist people to make successful personnel changeover and acceptance of change. Past studies have talked about change management in organizations by looking at various types of change majorly the strategic change and operational change within the organ...
ABSTRACT In sub-Saharan Africa, about 250 million people (67%) lack safe accessible water while 81% of the rural population lacks sanitation facilities (Rose and Vincent1999). People spend 40 billion hours every year just walking for water. Women and children usually bear the burden of water collection, walking miles to the nearest source. Along their long walk, they are subjected to a greater risk of harassment and sexual assault. According to National Water Polocy (2002) despite significant...
ABSTRACT Incarceration of women in KWP produces various indices of existential harms experienced cognitively as meaninglessness and functionally as ineffective coping. The women enter prison in perilous states which potentially disrupt their lives, restrict their liberties, challenge their self-identity, and distort their global meaning, diminishing their prospects for mental and behavioral health recovery. Thus, women need to restore coherence and transform the prison experience into optimal...
ABSTRACT Access to water supply and proper sanitation is fundamental to the elimination of poverty and the achievement of Millennium Development Goals. In Kenya, over 3,100 children die annually for using unsafe water and poor sanitation. In the 2015/2016 financial year, access to water in Kenya stood at 54% for urban and 51% for rural areas. Previous studies have revealed the unsuccessful attempts to improve access of water and sanitation services through privatization and structural reforms...
ABSTRACT Strategic leadership has been recognized as a major driver of effective and efficient strategy implementation for a long period of time. Strategic leadership can be defined as the ability to influence a group or members of a team towards goals achievement hence successful strategy implementation will highly depend upon the leadership skills of organizing, culture building and working through others, establishing strategic controls, motivating, creating strong fits between strategy an...
ABSTRACT This study was aimed at examining the desirable revenue management practices for a sustainable oil and gas industry in Uganda which involved studying the relationship between transparency and accountability, tax administration and contract negotiation as well as citizens’ involvement in the Oil sector and sustainability of the sector. The researcher adopted a descriptive survey research design to examine perceptions of 48 respondents drawn from the Oil Governance and Management cla...