Abstract The objective of this study is to examine the challenges affecting Information Technology Projects in Public Sector, with Kenya Revenue Authority as a Case Study. A lot of changes have occurred in organisational and functional processes calling for these changes to be managed. These changes have led to organisations adopting Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and implementation of systems such as Integrated Tax Management System (ITMS) which seeks to enhance service de...
ABSTRACT This study sought to investigate the gendered access and control of land and dairy products with a focus on their influence on household welfare. The study was done in Murang’a County-Kenya, guided by the following objectives: to establish the status of access and control of dairy products and land by men and women; to examine the status of welfare in households practicing dairy farming and perceptions of men and women on the influence of access and control of land and dairy produc...
ABSTRACT The study provides in-depth understanding of human-predator conflict which involves livestock killing by wild animals (lions, leopard, hyena, cheetah and leopards) and the livestock farmer’s kill wild predators to secure their livelihoods. Globally and locally, human-predator conflict efforts to minimize conflicts included compensation for livestock losses, human death / injury and support to social development programs. Whilst acknowledging efforts made to address the human-predat...
ABSTRACT Planning has been identified as a critical component by which the organizations achieve rapid quality results in their operations. Empirical evidence reveals that over 60% of public primary schools in Kenya have strategic plans but do not implement them. According to Kirinyaga County Education Office, most private primary schools infrequently implement strategic plans. The general objective of the study was to investigate the influence of organizational resources on the implemen...
ABSTRACT Although women owned enterprises play an important role in ensuring the growth of an economy, most of these businesses face challenges including limited access to credit facilities and limited skills among women owners. Commercial banks have consistently remained reluctant to advance credit facilities among low income earners who mostly comprise of these women owned enterprises. Majority of the women owned enterprises are still at micro level with limited ability to transact in large...
ABSTRACT Employee job satisfaction has been cited as a key factor towards addressing the issue of productivity in organizations. The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of job design on employee job satisfaction in Kenya Bureau of Standards. The more specific objectives of the study were to find out how employee relationship with supervisors affects employee job satisfaction, to determine the effect of the job conditions on employee job satisfaction, to establish the extent t...
ABSTRACT Systematic risk estimations are broadly used in investment analysis and portfolio management. The popular measure of systematic risk is the CAPM beta. The CAPM states that the expected return on an asset depends upon its level of systematic risk which is measured relative to that of the market portfolio. The estimation of systematic risk poses major challenges to researchers and different economic agents as per which return interval to use. Whereas it is by now widely recognized that...
ABSTRACT In a globalized world, organizations today operate in complicated environments and under increasing competition. In order to respond to needs of the changing environments, organizational learning has been postulated as an anchor to increased organizational performance and competitive edge. Effective learning has to be integrated within the organization. This study investigated the effect of organizational learning on performance of small and medium technology enterprise in Nairobi, ...
ABSTRACT Capacity development is a fundamental part of the mandates of many international organizations. Much of their work aims to strengthen national capacities through training, technical advice, exchange of experiences, research, and policy advice. Yet there is considerable dissatisfaction within the international community regarding the impact of many such interventions. The activities have usually strengthened the skills of individuals, but have not always succeeded in improving the ef...
ABSTRACT The government of Kenya, assisted by donor agencies, has since the 1980s, sought to enhance workers‘ productivity in the informal sector. To achieve this objective, the strategy adopted was to replace the use of archaic indigenous and inappropriate imported technologies with locally designed and produced adapted technology. Although since its inception in 1979,KIRDI has been adapting imported technology for use by entrepreneurs in the informal sector, the rate of adoption has been ...
ABSTRACT Small and medium enterprises are major stakeholders in developing countries economies. In Kenya although SMEs take off on a high note their life span is short. SMEs are more exposed to information security risks, short life and thus poor performance. The general objective of this study was to investigate the on the influence of information technology security practices on the performance of small and medium enterprises in Nairobi County. This research study used a descriptive researc...
ABSTRACT Although the financial system is a vital component of the socio-economic development of any nation, most Kenyans lack access to formal financial credit services. This arises due to the cause of putting up bank branches in the rural areas is deemed not economically viable. Most banks have partnered with Mobile Network Operators to help mitigate this problem by introducing the use of Mobile banking (M-banking) technology in accessing vital banking services such as financial credit. Ho...
ABSTRACT Most public sector projects fail to meet expecations of the citizenry, funding agencies or even the government itself due to corruption, bureaucracy, poor monitoring and evaluation capacity, limited action on feedback and poor project design framework. Sometimes projects fail because they are badly conceptualized, planned designed, implemented and managed. At the centre of project success or failure is strategic management. If the strategy involved in the project cycle and decision m...
ABSTRACT Public debt in Kenya has consistently risen overtime, with larger portion being debt from external sources. Both positive and negative effects of debt have been experienced in Kenya since independence. In the last one decade external debt has been rising sharply relative to economic growth of the country, which seems to be stagnant overtime. Additionally, the country has been reporting several cases of corruption and mismanagement of public revenue at different levels of public and ...
ABSTRACT Business enterprises are regarded as engines of economic development in many nations of the world. Many of these enterprises are faced with a myriad of problems especially in their initial stages, key among them, insufficient business and management skills. In this study, enterprises were categorized as micro, small and medium. Entrepreneurial training enables enterprise operators adopt better management practices such as profit retention, good customer relations, timely loan repayme...