ABSTRACT Urban centres in Kenya have experienced rapid uptake of motorcycles for commercial transportation to fill the gap between transport service supply and demand. This rapid increase is due to zero rating of motorcycle imports and relatively more efficient and affordable motorized transport offered by this mode. Motorcycle transport presents road safety challenges and opportunities in employment. A review of literature reveals that there is relatively less focus on motorcycle transport s...
ABSTRACT The implementation of the Kenya vision 2030, coupled with financing expenditures under the devolved government in the new constitution requires enormous resources. The vision requires the government to ensure that the bulk of its expenditures are met from tax revenue and that overall expenditure should be controlled to ensure stable macroeconomic environment. The Government of Kenya continued to carry out tax reforms over the years with an aim of improving taxation efficiency and in...
ABSTRACT Knowledge is currently recognized as an essential resource in any organization thus viewed as a fundamental element of business success. The ability to collect, integrate and apply specialized knowledge of members of the organization is critical to the ability of a firm to sustain and create the industry`s competitive advantage. Knowledge is an important factor in nongovernmental organizations whose successful application helps them deliver the desired social impact. This knowledge ...
ABSTRACT Organizations face complicated tasks in harnessing current abilities, talent and expertise and achieving the highest outcomes. Where there is a mobile workforce and where executives have to manage various projects with partners, the complexity is also magnified. Human resource managers also need to tackle the need for a fresh generation of employees to enter the sector today. In this case, compensation programs play an important role in those organizations that wish to reach their ob...
ABSTRACT The rapid expansion of mobile banking technology in Kenya has enhanced financial inclusion to the unbanked population who for many years used informal saving practices such as chamas, hoarding at home or keeping with relatives to save money. Banking services in commercial financial institutions were for many years located in urban centers and had strict rules and selected clientele that looked out a majority of the population who resorted to informal money saving practices. With acce...
ABSTRACT Growing of Jatropha curcas has been received with mixed feelings in Kenya. The plant has tremendous potential to be Africa's most excellent bio-fuel feedstock. However, there have been concerns that the plant is not commercially viable and that it negatively affects food production and security. The lack of factual information coupled with politics surrounding the growth of the plant has compromised its uptake by local farmers. This has however not dampened the spirits of pro poor d...
ABSTRACT The need for this study stems from the fallacy that public institutions need not delight customers. Indeed, these institutions have been considered as not having 'customers' per se with the publics whom they serve being given little attention. This originates from the reasoning that, when public institutions render service, the people they serve are not necessarily in the class of customers such as those in the private sector. The concern, aggression and innovation seen in private s...
ABSTRACT Inspection has been a mechanism particularly associated with schools. Traditionally, it has been used to monitor the quality of teaching as well as general aspects of schools. In Kenya, education reforms often fail to achieve desired outcomes due to ineffective and inefficient supervision. As a result, the Government of Kenya through the Ministry of Education came up with the Department of Quality Assurance and Standards charged with the duty of maintaining and improving educational...
ABSTRACT The concept of strategic human resource management became popular in the 1980's with the development of Harvard Business school two models integrating strategy and human resource management. These models identified mission strategy, organization strategy, and human resource management as core elements necessary for a firm to function effectively. In the models, human resource management comprises of planning, recruitment, selection, placement, appraisal, compensation, and employee r...
ABSTRACT Despite the significant monitoring of training offered by universities in Kenya, the number of unemployed graduates due to perceived lack of quality and work-related skills is rising. Key policy makers are reluctant to admit the extent of Kenya‟s graduate unemployment, while employers apportion more blame to the universities. In turn, the universities blame employers for „locking out‟ students from opportunities to gain relevant work experience. The purpose of this study was to...
ABSTRACT The Procurement function can hardly be ignored m any enterprise. Modern manufacturing thinking highly associate prudent procurement practices to profitability of the enterprise. This is because most financial commitments in an organization make, pass through a procurement process. Available literature indicates that the efficiency and effectiveness of the procurement function is the least measured in many enterprises despite its contribution to the profitability of enterprises (Van ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to determine the risk management strategies used by FOSA SACCOs in Nairobi County. The population of study was the FOSA SACCOs in Nairobi County. The study focused on all 44 FOSA SACCOs. The population of interest was the risk managers or managing directors of the organizations. The research instrument used was questionnaires which were pre-tested to confirm clarity of the questions and their validity and reliability. Questionnaires are typically used t...
ABSTRACT Savings and credit societies world-wide provide opportunities to millions of people to grow through access to savings, affordable credit and a chance for a secure tomorrow. From the reviewed literature, SACCOs in rural areas suffer from low management capacity. This low management capacity often results in poor performance of SACCOs (Peck 2006). The study was aimed at finding out whether there was any relationship between performance of SACCOs and level of management. The study adop...
ABSTRACT Employee retention is vital in all the commercial banks in Kenya. This is because of the fact that worker turnover is high as employees search for jobs somewhere else which have better packages or personnel are head-hunted by rival companies which end up in making the company free professional personnel. Lack of gifted employees effects to a drop in performance therefore companies have to employ better employees retention strategies. The general objective of this study was to invest...
ABSTRACT Organizational change within a company or agency can come about for different reasons. Changes can be made to improve productivity or because of new management. Changes can be initiated by both external forces, factors outside of an agency, or by internal forces, initiated by an agency itself. Due to the importance of change in organisations and in consideration of the varied reactions of employees to change, this study aimed to examine the effects of operations · change on employe...