ABSTRACT In the past two decades there has been increased recognition of the role of project sustainability in fostering continued benefits towards economic and social input invested in agriculture. Though projects play a crucial role in fostering advancement in the horticultural sector, complexity and enormous challenges results in intended outcomes not being achieved. Despite the growing knowledge base relating to emphasis on the need for projects success, horticultural projects have increa...
ABSTRACT Women Enterprise Fund (WEF) is one of the efforts of the Kenyan government to empower women through capacity building and funding. The general objective of this study was to determine the influence of entrepreneurship education on the growth of women groups‟ businesses funded by the Women Enterprise Fund in Meru County, Kenya. The specific objectives of this study were to : determine the influence of financial management skills on the growth of women groups‟ businesses funded by ...
ABSTRACT The study sought to establish how voluntary, involuntary, functional and dysfunctional turnover affected performance of employees. There exist few researches and literatures on turnover and performance even though many similar studies have been done in different areas of staff turnover. When organization loses crucial employees, motivation is greatly affected leading to unmet goals, inefficiency, unaccomplished workload and inconsistency in service delivery. The general objective of ...
ABSTRACT This study was conducted on strategic management practices and performance of small scale business enterprises operating in Kitui town. The objective of the study was to establish the strategic management practices employed by small enterprises in Kitui town, and how investment in personnel and skills, reaction to competitor actions,maintaining customer loyalty and product differentiation influenced performance of enterprises. The research involved a survey of 99 small enterprises in...
x ABSTRACT Over the last ten years, there has been a significant growth in the Education sector. This has been created by the high demand of higher education in the market. Public universities through the joint admission board (J.A.B) can only admit approximately 10,000 students of all the qualified students. This has led to the introduction of private universities which admit the remaining qualified students who do not get to be admitted in the public universities. In Kenya today, the privat...
ABSTRACT The rate at which the SACCO sector is becoming increasingly crucial to the Kenyan economy is high. The sector provides key in the nation as it controls around 43 per of gross domestic product (GDP). The cross-cutting issues affecting co-operatives are governance, weak regulations and supervision as well as risks involved in investments. Top on the list and one which results to SACCO failures, stagnation and collapse is lack of a framework to ensure enforcement, regulatory and supervi...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of strategy implementation on performance contracting in Regulatory State Corporations in Kenya with specific reference to Kenya Dairy Board. This study was guided by the following specific objectives: to establish the influence of organizational structure, financial resources, organizational norm and communication on performance contracting in Regulatory State Corporations in Kenya. This study employed a descriptive survey r...
ABSTRACT Agriculture is a dominant sector of the Kenyan economy and contributes 25 percent of the GDP. Being the highest foreign exchange earner Growth is anticipated to propel the fulfillment of the 2030 vision. In line with the GoK initiatives various government agencies have initiated irrigation projects over the years, in particular small scale irrigation projects with great emphasis on sustainable development. So that food supply in the country is safe, the government has advocated for m...
xii ABSTRACT As the basic social unit, the family requires protection to ensure that children grow in a well-rounded environment and that they achieve their potential. For this reason, Child Welfare Society of Kenya (CWSK) implements Family Economic Empowerment Projects (FEEPs) with an aim of economically empowering families and making them financially independent. This in turn results to prevention of family separation and breakdowns. However, according to several Annual Reports of CWSK, sus...
ABSTRACT The use of e-procurement is expected to enhance inter-organizational coordination and result in significant economic benefits. Many organizations that have implemented the software have proved to be beneficial. Even though the overall benefits of web-based systems are established, there is a need to understand the conditions that lead to different levels of benefits among different organizations, and even among different business units within the same organization. The government of ...
ABSTRACT The ability to offer fair reward is vital to management if they are to attract, motivate and retain their good employee performance. Farm Concern International (FCI) has been operating different reward system to its employees in different programmes. This has resulted in low overall performance. In order to increase overall performance, FCI management adopted a new strategy of a central reward system where employees were rewarded uniformly. However, the effect of this reward strategy...
ABSTRACT This study sought to find out the influence of organizational behavior on organizational performance among beverage manufacturing companies in Kenya with Nairobi Bottlers Limited being the case study. The objectives of the study was to determine the influence of leadership on the performance of Nairobi Bottlers Limited, to explore the influence of employee motivation on organizational performance of Nairobi Bottlers Limited, to establish how employee job satisfaction influences the p...
ABSTRACT This study investigates the critical success factors of TQM project implementation in the Nigerian banking industry as a strategy for improving the quality of service delivery to customers. In carrying out the study primary data were used and a combination of Factor and regression analytical tools was used in the analysis. The Objective Evaluation Questionnaire (OEQ) was the principal instrument used for data collection. Given the nature of the problem under study, one branch each o...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the effect of corporate governance on organizational performance with interest on deposit money banks in Nigeria. Five research questions and five hypotheses guided the study. A survey design was adopted. The population of the study comprised 456 top senior management staff of the nineteen (19) commercial banks. The sample of the population were 213 respondents which was arrived at through the application of Taro Yameni formula. A structured questionnaire on ...
ABSTRACT The right to health care is one of the most fundamental rights for all citizens in a country because it leads to the well-being of people consequently leading to economic growth and development. Despite the commitment of Kenya government to provide equitable, affordable and quality health care by boosting resources in the health sector the public health institutions, have not yielded the expected performance. This study therefore investigated the effect of strategic resources on the ...