ABSTRACT This research project was geared toward investigating entrepreneurial orientation and performance of Prison Industry Enterprise a government-linked enterprise. It explored the five dimensions of entrepreneurial orientation covering innovation, proactiveness, risk taking, aggressiveness and autonomy and their effect on performance. The research focused on Kamiti Prison Enterprise to act as a pilot point whereby the result can be used to generalize the situation in other prisons�...
ABSTRACT It is in public knowledge that youths are the most adversely affected by unemployment due the current economic crisis in Africa and the world at large, this has led youths to engaging in various businesses to earn a living. In Kenya, bodaboda transport business, an informal employment, is giving employment opportunities to many of these youths at a time when unemployment rates are growing daily globally. Bodaboda is not only creating employment for the young people but also facilitat...
ABSTRACT Small and medium enterprises SMEs play a key role in triggering and sustaining economic growth and development in developed and developing countries. Despite their great importance increased market competition especially from modern and large competitors makes it difficult for SMEs to survive. In developing countries the major problem with SMEs is difficult in assessing information, finance and lack of institution support. As a result to these difficulties most SMEs do not live beyon...
ABSTRACT Matatus are the informal industry in Kenya that provide service to millions of people each day and are essentially the backbone of the transportation system in Kenya. Transport plays an important role in integrating the various sectors in the economy. Matatus account for 80% of the total public transport in the country (Republic of Kenya, 2002).The directive by the Ministry of transport that all the Matatus to join SACCOs or limited liability companies by the end of the year 2010 (Le...
ABSTRACT Effective financial resources forms an integral part of financial management that is of utmost importance to all managers and heads of institutions. It is clear that any association without a structure on internal control set up is by and large presented to several dangers that are equipped for disintegrating the association in less or no time. Most of the studies done on internal controls were done outside Kenya, the studies done in Kenya focused on profit making organizations....
ABSTRACT Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) does not present a challenge to any intellectual within Kenya, especially as to its outward meaning. The term is, however, still a vocabulary to many illiterate and semi-illiterate Kenyans who barely understand what it implies. Even to the intellectuals, the objectives, the basis and the underlying principles behind CSR are remotely within their realm of knowledge. CSR is, however, a powerful tool in the hands of corporate players for not only en...
ABSTRACT Leadership skills have indisputably been known to influence performance in most successful firms globally. Strategic leadership practices in particular have been identified to facilitate organisations to perform effectively and efficiently in the turbulent and volatile business environment to a greater extent. Coffee farmers are concerned on how to revive the coffee sector due to the poor and untimely prices paid from the produce. The general objective of the study was to establish ...
ABSTRACT Understanding consumer buying behaviour and their preference to product attributes has become a key success factor in today’s business environment which is highly competitive and rapidly changing. Consumer are now more discerning and individualistic requiring marketers to gain insights in the buying behaviour of consumers and the attitude they have on product innovation before they make the purchasing decision including the innovation used in elements such as packaging. The genera...
ABSTRACT Within an increasingly competitive environment, customer focus strategies form an .organization strategic tool for improving product/service quality. Organizations placing greater emphasis on customer focus will tend to attach a relatively high degree of importance to eliminating non value added activities and cost, building closer links with customers, having a management approach of meeting customers' need, finding solutions to poor service, and regularly measuring customer servic...
ABSTRACT The aircraft business assumes a big role in Kenya's economic advancement. The airline business catalyzes different parts of the economy, for example, the travel industry, assembling, cultivation and the hotel industries, which contribute billions of shillings to Kenya's economy. Competition globally is progressively making carriers working at JKIA increasingly competitive to the degree that Airline organizations are hauling out from working at JKIA, given a case of Virgin Atlantic ...
ABSTRACT Effective management training and development programs are aimed at improving the managers’ performance. Small and micro enterprises have widely been recognized as the major source of employment for many households in developing countries. However, three out of five SMEs fail within the first three years of operation and those that continue 80 percent fail before the fifth year attributed to poor performance and consistent losses. It is against this background that the researc...
Abstract The main purpose of this research study was to assess the role of performance appraisal on organizational performance, the research focused on state owned sugar companies in Kenya including Sonysugar, Chemelil, Nzoia and Muhoroni sugar companies. Recent history shows that Sugar Companies are producing sugar at high cost, cannot pay all the farmers promptly and the raw material is too scarce that all the factories are now competing for it. The industry also faces competition from...
ABSTRACT Interest rate capping is a form of government control in the financial sector. Over the recent years, there has been a decline on the number of countries using this form of control mainly because most countries are aiming at having liberal financial policies. There are several reasons why governments may opt to use interest rate caps, most of which are political and economic. One of them could be to support an industry or sector where there is a market failure or in areas where a gre...
ABSTRACT Although the Government remains the main provider of health care services in Kenya, Faith Based Hospitals are a crucial component of our society today. Faith Based Health System operates a total of 993(about 40%) health facilities in the country comprising of large (secondary) and medium (primary) referral hospitals, health centres, dispensaries and community based health care programs (MOH 2011). Faith Based Hospitals have complemented the role played by the government in the provis...
ABSTRACT Organizations seem to have difficulties in implementing their strategies. The construction industry is the engine of infrastructure development in the country. The industry from independence has experienced substantial growth. Despite such growth, major construction works in Kenya have been undertaken by foreign firms due to lack of adequate local capacity in the industry. There is non-implementation of the national planning and building authority regulations 2010. This fairly compre...