ABSTRACT Proceeding on the basis of performance differences between male and female owned enterprises, the research analyzed the gender differences on entrepreneurial self-efficacy among Small and Medium Entrepreneurs at Githurai Trading Center, Nairobi Kenya. Descriptive survey design was adopted using structured questionnaires that were administered to a sample size of 150 respondents. Descriptive statistics and chi-square statistical analysis methods used .. Data from research indicate t...
ABSTRACT In the work environment, there is the inevitable practice of performance appraisal whether formal or informal. Research evidence also point out that in most admired organizations, employee performance appraisal is a vital and vigorous management tool. (http://www.hrdirectory.org/hr-articles/employee-performance-appraisals .php) While performance appraisal has been the focus considerable research for almost a century, this research has resulted in very few recommendations about desig...
Studies done by researchers show that entrepreneurial activities among women in Kenya are relatively lower than in developed countries. Studies done in other parts of Africa indicate that ownership of Co-operative Societies business is mainly by women aged between 30 and 45 years. This is mainly so because the women constitute about 32% of the population of Kenya of 33 million people, which is the current statistics.According to Okwoche 1998, 85% of women co-operators and 87% women non c...
A lot of organizations have adopted and implemented enterprise wide information systems which can be summarized in the term Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. An ERP system can be characterized as an information system made up of different modules, each supporting the business processes. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems affect organizations and are implemented to enhance organizational effectiveness. However, ERP implementation is complex, costly and the research to da...
ABSTRACT Commercial banks play a critical role in economic growth and development, income generation and job creation especially in developing countries. With the increasing trend of sudden corporate failures in both global and local context, shareholders and management are increasingly becoming more concerned with the factors that affect financial performance of firms. The Banking sector in Kenya is an important sector whose performance is instrumental in the economic growth and development...
ABSTRACT Performance appraisal is a systematic evaluation of staff with respect to their performance on the job, potential for development aimed at contributing towards attaining corporate goals and objectives. The concept therefore provides a feedback process leading to greater clarity regarding organization's expectations, staff capabilities, performance goals and communication improvement. Alot of research has been conducted on performance management and its purposelimportance in organiza...
ABSTRACT Kenya Rural Enterprise Programme (K-Rep) is one of the leading micro - finance institution in Kenya, which lends money to small and micro - enterprises. It is therefore important to small and micro - enterprises. It is therefore important to study and understand terms of loans in micro - finance institutions to small and micro - enterprises particularly in this study second - hand clothes dealers This study used systematic sampling. Primary data were collected through personally adm...
ABSTRACT Electricity is a primary factor of development and should therefore be harnessed, and developed in an efficient manner. It should also be available in adequate quantity, quality and affordable prices. The level and intensity of commercial energy use in a country is a key indicator of the degree of economic growth and development. The challenges facing the power sector in Kenya include weak transmission and distribution infrastructure, high cost of power, low per capita power consump...
ABSTRACT This project was an investigation into the effects of training in hindering the growth of entrepreneurship in Kenya, a case of Karatina Town in Nyeri District. The objective behind the study was to investigate study and analyze the effects of training in hindering the growth of entrepreneurship in Kenya. Training plays a major role in enabling one to be productive, effective, and efficient in performance of his/her duty. Although entrepreneurship depends on one's creativity and inno...
ABSTRACT The study determined the factors that influence students' performance in writing entrepreneurship project proposals. The study focused on learning facilities, role of administrators like principals, teacher qualifications, size of the class, role of Kenya National Examinations Council and effects of participation of students in home chores. The study was done to determine the factors that influence students' performance in writing entrepreneurship projects. Stratified random samplin...
ABSTRACT This study had set out to establish the major determinants of Front office Services performance. These determinants are categorized into four namely; economic factors, firms specific factors, government policy related factors and time factors. The population of the study comprised of members and employees of Mwalimu savings and credit co-operative societies in Nairobi. Mwalimu members formed the sample of the study. Data collected and analyzed were both primary and secondary. The pr...
ABSTRACT The main challenge facing the Kenya Ports Authority is how to effectively and efficiently pursue its goals in order to be able to fully execute its key mandate of being open to Eastern and central Africa. The cha11enge with the managers is to strategica11y plan for an action that works best for any given situation. As a result, the purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of strategic management on the organization's effectiveness. Specifically the study sought to: identi...
ABSTRACT The organizational performance of Kenyan commercial banks has continually declined of due to stiff competition from other financial institutions. The innovations of lending applications and mobile banking have given room for loan defaults by customers from the main banks hence reduced organizational performance. The main study objective was to establish influence of re-engineering practices of business process on Kenya commercial banks’ organizational performance. Specifically, thi...
ABSTRACT Despite the existence of studies on specific areas relating to college students' stress such as coping behaviors, stress in relation to health, and stress management there is little documentation existing on the specific factors that cause stress and burnout amongst college students. A more holistic assessment needs to be carried out to understand the factors that lead to stress and subsequent burnout among the college students and patterns of stressors in relation to personal and ac...
ABSTRACT The study was set out to establish the influence of Savings and cooperative societies on growth of enterprises in Kenya; the study was guided by three objectives, to establish various loan products offered by SACCOs to the members, to establish the strategies used by SACCOs in mobilizing members' savings and establish SACCO's investment opportunities available to the members. The study design comprised of a descriptive research design. Stratified sampling used to determine the sampl...