The Role Of Corporate Governance In The Financial Performance Case Study Of Stanbic Bank Uganda-Kampala Head Office

ABSTRACT

The purpose of the study was to establish the role of corporate governance 111 financial

performance of Stanbic bank basing on the following objectives, to establish the corporate

governance practices used in Stanbic bank to establish factors related to corporate

governance affecting financial perfonnance of the bank and to establish the relationship

between corporate governance and financial perfonnance of the bank.

A cross-sectional research design was used in the study. The sample was selected basing on

the Krejcia and Morgan (1970) assertion that, a sample size of 100 was used comprising of

25 management employees. Primary data was collected by the use of questionnaire and

secondary data was collected from text books, journals, and business publications. These

were being obtained from libraries and from the internet. Data collect from the primary

survey was complied, sort, edit, classified, coded into a coding sheet and analyzed using

SPSS. Descriptive statistics was used to desc1ibe the data.

finding reveal that Stanbic bank practices corporate governance. This is evidenced in the

principles of disclosure, trust and transparency which were found to highly consider and

implement. A significant relationship was found between corporate governance and financial

perfonnance with a spearman's coefficient of 0.515 hence showing that corporate governance

has a positive impact on financial perfonnance in Stanbic bank.

it was concluded that corporate governance practices of transparency, trust, and disclosure are

significant determinants of the level of financial perfonnance in the banking sector.

it was recommended that the bank needs to maintain clear communication channels open to

all staff for easy access the disclose infonnation not only by the staff also among the staff

themselves. The most affected information should be financial-wise. High level transparency should be encouraged and promoted in the bank.