Entrepreneurship is the backbone of economic stability among developed and developing countries of the world. Micro women enterprises have also contributed significantly in the creation of employment opportunities and alleviation of poverty. Despite the positive contributions of the women enterprises in the Gross National Product, quite a number of challenges are experienced during the inception and maturity stages of enterprise growth. It is on this background this study sought to establish ...
Work Life Balance is the working arrangements that make sure an employee balances between personal and work responsibilities. Poor Work Life Balance is a major risk that poses risks to the well-being of the employees, their performance, and organizational performance. Most of the employees often find it challenging to balance their social life and employment responsibilities. The study sought to examine the relationship between worklife-balance and performance of Kitui county government emplo...
Firewood is part of the emergency supplies given to refugees for domestic fuel needs in Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya’s remote North-West. However getting adequate supplies for the sprawling refugee camp has proved to be increasingly challenging and environmentally damaging. Solar cooking projects have been implemented as possible solutions but to date solar cooking adoption in refugee camps has been low. This study aimed to investigate influence of social determinants on uptake of solar coo...
The Higher Education Loans Board aims to enhance access and retention of qualified needy students in university education through loans. In Kenya, it was essential to come up with a higher education loans board due to the increasing cost of tuition. The prices of education meant that students were highly dependable on parents and guardians. The loans board provides loans to the students; however, the problem arises when it comes to the process of recovery. Studies show that around 65000 loan...
Private Universities in Kenya have continuously faced a number of challenges such as declining quality of educational programs, quality of research, authenticity of degrees granted, flexibility of the university programs, innovations created and efficient utilization of resources at their disposal. Despite the increasing number of students seeking higher education, these numbers have not translated to better performance in these Universities. Modern business environment calls for organization...
The research project was undertaken to determine the performance of donor funded projects in Mwingi-sub-county in Kenya. Donors play a crucial role in the development process in many areas of the world. They assist nations with acute shortage of funds, experiencing natural disasters like hunger and floods among others which results into predictable environmental circumstances, the level of the citizens per capital income decreases and severely limits their ability to acquire the goods and ser...
Management Practices play an important role in organization’s governance structure and performance. This study sought to establish the effects of management practices on performance of the National Industrial Training Authority. The specific objectives were; to examine the effects of team work on performance of the National Industrial Training Authority, to establish the effects of participatory decision making on performance of the National Industrial Training Authority, to assess the effe...
Capital is the financing for a business and is made up of, primarily, owners’ funding and funding from lenders. The combination of the sources of business funding is referred to, as the capital structure of that business.Capital structure is thus the mix of company’s long term debt, specific short term debt, common equity and preferred equity; that is, how a firm finances its overall operations and growth using different sources of funding. This is composed of equity (rights issue) and de...
To enhance service delivery to its citizen, the Government of Kenya established Parastatals by enacting necessary legislations to entrench state corporations and to give them legal impetus thereby bestowing upon them authority and legitimacy to operate. Due to globalization, competitiveness, and streamlining, these parastatals are left with no choice but to execute business strategies by managing tasks through projects and enhance quality of products and service, optimize resources within lim...
Strategic policy makers often neglect the impact of organizational restructuring strategy and employee commitment. The purpose of the study was to investigate how selected organizational restructuring strategies affected employee commitment at KRA. Specifically, the study sought to; establish the effects of change of job description and employee commitment at KRA, determine the effects of grading structure change and employee commitment at KRA and to determine the effects of remuneration stru...
Performance of food manufacturing firms has been on a declining trend leading to the relocation of some firms to other countries. As a result, the country has been experiencing frequent food deficits. The search for how performance can be enhanced has led scholars and managers to consider dynamic capability to be at the heart of firm strategy. This study, therefore, sought to examine how dynamic capabilities influence the performance of selected manufacturing firms in Kenya. The specific obje...
Banks are the primary intermediaries for the reason that in various countries of the world, they carry out financial intermediation. Through the years, different countries have gone through an unprecedented number of failures in the commercial banks internationally. These failures have prompted the need for a more serious focus on suitable methods of improving the financial performance of national financial systems. Further than the intermediation task, the banks’ financial performance of b...
The discussion of the link between personality types and strategic change by scholars today is compounded by the contradicting findings as how personality types influence implementation of strategic change. While some studies reveal positive correlation between personality types and the strategic change implementation initiatives, some studies indicated negative relationships. In Kenya and specifically the Judiciary of Kenya, the rationale to understand how personality affects the i...
Many organisations have had to conduct strategy management process so as to attain competitive advantage in a very dynamic business environment. However, despite these strategies being well formulated and planned, they do not seem to deliver the desired outcomes. Several studies has been done over the years to determine the relationship between strategy implementation and performance of an organisation. The studies are not conclusive and that they do not look at how implementation of specif...
Small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is regarded as the main employment source, technological advancements, and competitive advantages for both developed and developing countries. As a result of competitive pressure and the need for growth in line with increasing its profits margins, these businesses are increasingly employing Information Technology (IT) to take advantage of its benefits. The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of using information and communication technology...