ABSTRACT Performance appraisal is a systematic evaluation of staff with respect to their performance on the job, potential for development aimed at contributing towards attaining corporate goals and objectives. The concept therefore provides a feedback process leading to greater clarity regarding organization's expectations, staff capabilities, performance goals and communication improvement. Alot of research has been conducted on performance management and its purposelimportance in organiza...
ABSTRACT Kenya Rural Enterprise Programme (K-Rep) is one of the leading micro - finance institution in Kenya, which lends money to small and micro - enterprises. It is therefore important to small and micro - enterprises. It is therefore important to study and understand terms of loans in micro - finance institutions to small and micro - enterprises particularly in this study second - hand clothes dealers This study used systematic sampling. Primary data were collected through personally adm...
ABSTRACT Electricity is a primary factor of development and should therefore be harnessed, and developed in an efficient manner. It should also be available in adequate quantity, quality and affordable prices. The level and intensity of commercial energy use in a country is a key indicator of the degree of economic growth and development. The challenges facing the power sector in Kenya include weak transmission and distribution infrastructure, high cost of power, low per capita power consump...
ABSTRACT This project was an investigation into the effects of training in hindering the growth of entrepreneurship in Kenya, a case of Karatina Town in Nyeri District. The objective behind the study was to investigate study and analyze the effects of training in hindering the growth of entrepreneurship in Kenya. Training plays a major role in enabling one to be productive, effective, and efficient in performance of his/her duty. Although entrepreneurship depends on one's creativity and inno...
ABSTRACT The study determined the factors that influence students' performance in writing entrepreneurship project proposals. The study focused on learning facilities, role of administrators like principals, teacher qualifications, size of the class, role of Kenya National Examinations Council and effects of participation of students in home chores. The study was done to determine the factors that influence students' performance in writing entrepreneurship projects. Stratified random samplin...
ABSTRACT This study had set out to establish the major determinants of Front office Services performance. These determinants are categorized into four namely; economic factors, firms specific factors, government policy related factors and time factors. The population of the study comprised of members and employees of Mwalimu savings and credit co-operative societies in Nairobi. Mwalimu members formed the sample of the study. Data collected and analyzed were both primary and secondary. The pr...
ABSTRACT The main challenge facing the Kenya Ports Authority is how to effectively and efficiently pursue its goals in order to be able to fully execute its key mandate of being open to Eastern and central Africa. The cha11enge with the managers is to strategica11y plan for an action that works best for any given situation. As a result, the purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of strategic management on the organization's effectiveness. Specifically the study sought to: identi...
ABSTRACT The organizational performance of Kenyan commercial banks has continually declined of due to stiff competition from other financial institutions. The innovations of lending applications and mobile banking have given room for loan defaults by customers from the main banks hence reduced organizational performance. The main study objective was to establish influence of re-engineering practices of business process on Kenya commercial banks’ organizational performance. Specifically, thi...
ABSTRACT Despite the existence of studies on specific areas relating to college students' stress such as coping behaviors, stress in relation to health, and stress management there is little documentation existing on the specific factors that cause stress and burnout amongst college students. A more holistic assessment needs to be carried out to understand the factors that lead to stress and subsequent burnout among the college students and patterns of stressors in relation to personal and ac...
ABSTRACT The study was set out to establish the influence of Savings and cooperative societies on growth of enterprises in Kenya; the study was guided by three objectives, to establish various loan products offered by SACCOs to the members, to establish the strategies used by SACCOs in mobilizing members' savings and establish SACCO's investment opportunities available to the members. The study design comprised of a descriptive research design. Stratified sampling used to determine the sampl...
ABSTRACT Destinations are often seen by the tourist as the outwardly facing elements of a tourist product or service, being a place where the consumption occurs. At a global scale, the growth of international tourism and domestic tourism has seen the exponential expansion of places seeking to develop their tourism potential. Even very unlikely and unattractive places have developed a tourism economy, based on the principles of creating a destination and a demand for the products and serv...
ABSTRACT The Kenyan government has realized the importance of procurement planning in all public procurement, with all procurement activities being within the approved budgets of the procuring entity, through an annual procurement plan, and all procurements undertaken by an entity to be within the threshold set in the regulations. Procurement should also be handled by different offices in respect to initiation of procurement, processing and receipt of goods and services. There have been numer...
ABSTRACT This research project aimed at” investigating the effect of Human Resource Management practices on student performance in public secondary schools in Kenya. The objectives of the study are to: establish the effect of training and development on student performance in public secondary schools in Thika West Sub-County Kiambu county Kenya; determine the effect of management style on student performance in public secondary schools in Thika West Sub-County Kiambu county Kenya; assess th...
ABSTRACT A company must respond strategically to competition for it to achieve competitive advantage and long-term profitability. “This normally involves the devising and implementation of strategies that are superior and sustainable to those of competitors. There has been the emerging trend where milk producer based organizations are getting into processing. These firms compete against each other and therefore need to adopt competitive strategies with the aim of performing effectively and ...
ABSTRACT Trade unions are legally recognized as representatives of workers and their activity today centers on collective bargaining over wages, benefits, and working conditions for their membership, on representi_ng their members in disputes with management over violations of contract provisions, on educating their members thus creating awareness of members rights and advocating policies and legislation on behalf of workers. Until 2003, employees in Kenya's EPZs were banned from joining tra...