ABSTRACT Business organizations strive to grow and increase their sales and profits. Growth is imperative and not an option as such turning a small company into a big one is never easy. Therefore, companies have to adopt suitable growth strategies to boost performance. The stiff competition among the various milk-processing firms in Kenya has led to collapse of some of diary firms. In efforts of growing and increasing profitability, companies in the milk-processing sector have adopted various...
ABSTRACT In the current climate, competition in the banking industry is intense, with new financial service providers emerging all the time. Quality of service is seen more than ever as a key differentiator in the marketplace. One question relates to whether automated, telephone and Internet banking represent positive change and are delivering enhanced service quality. Whilst technology can save time and money and eliminate errors, thereby addressing certain issues associated with changi...
Abstract The Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) is to streamline management of finance resources in organizations where there is unplanned expenditure resulting to huge pending bills, misappropriation of county funds, and mismanagement of cash flows. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of Integrated Financial Management Information System Trainings and Management of public funds in Nyamira County, Kenya. The specific objectives of the study were: to...
ABSTRACT Manufacturing SMEs play a crucial role in building and sustaining the economy in Kenya. They ensure that goods and services are provided to the citizens, reduction of poverty and promotion of other sectors of the economy. Despite their importance, manufacturing SMEs in Kericho County continue to perform poorly. Majority of the manufacturing SMEs (seventy two percent) recorded return on capital employed of less than five percent with only twenty eight percent of SMEs generating return...
ABSTRACT Sustainability of community based and managed rural water supplies in Kenya remains a challenge. In spite of concerted efforts to transfer ownership of rural water supplies to beneficiary communities and increasing participation of the communities in the operation and maintenance of these facilities, more than a third of all rural water supplies fail within three years of development. The purpose of this research was to investigate the factors that moderate the effect of various comm...
ABSTRACT Performance has remained poor in most of the public secondary schools in Kenya. This is despite the government’s commitment to improve standards of education through the constitution of school board of management (BOM).The strategic approaches by the BOMs can be attributed to the performance of public secondary schools. This study therefore purposed to examine strategic actions of boards of management and the performance of public secondary schools in Nakuru County Kenya. The study...
Abstract Effects of marketing Mix elements on sales performance of automotive fuels in Kenya have not received sufficient attention. This knowledge gap inspires this proposed study. The broad objective is to examine how product, price, promotion and place can applied to increase sales volume of automotive fuels especially regular, super, and diesel in Nakuru town. A survey of selected service stations in the town is chosen to determine the effects of the 4 Ps on sales performance of the produ...
ABSTRACT In this era of dramatic change, global alliances, and a variety of environmental pressures, the potential for failure is very real in the implementation of strategic plans. Provision of vocational education has been gradually registering the low number of students’ enrolments because it has been facing various problems. Many countries have been crying foul over the challenges facing the education sector, including lack of learning resources and maximum utilization of the available ...
ABSTRACT Projects exist to meet specific needs and Compassion Kenya-assisted holistic child development projects are among such projects whose intent is to liberate children and youth from their economic, spiritual, physical and socio-emotional poverty. Success of these projects depend on a number of factors such as planning, communications, employee competence and risk management. How these factors influence project performance is an area that has not been explored before and as such formed ...
ABSTRACT The travel and tour agencies play an important role in the economy of a country as they help in promoting the tourism sector by linking customers to the tourism sector. The agencies make both national and international tourism easy by providing services to the customers which they would have had a difficult time getting on their own like getting Visas for international travel. At the same time, they help in creating employment to a large number of people. Despite. The focus of t...
ABSTRACT This research project is meant to identify the impact of Real Estate Development in the growth of Real Estate Agents in Nakuru Municipality. The occupation of real estate broker or real estate agent began in the early nineteenth century. Prior to the mid-nineteenth century, most sales of real property involved lawyers and business persons but not real estate agents as we have come to know them. In some instances, parties to real estate sales had employees who handled the transactions...
ABSTRACT Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies play an important of enhancing economic stability and the general welfare of its members. However, in Nairobi City County, the only Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies that have continued to grow in terms of profitability include; Mwalimu National SACCO, Harambee SACCO, Stima SACCO, Kenya Police SACCO, Afya SACCO, United Nations SACCO, UNAITAS SACCO and Metropolitan National SACCO out of the existing 41 SACCOs. This is in contrast with th...
ABSTRACT Strategy implementation refers to choices and activities that translate a strategic thought to organizational actions where the organization moves from planning to execution of the plans to achieve its goals. Past researchers have attributed the recent growth in the SACCOs to the shift to effectiveness of strategy implementation. The Trans Nation SACCO has experienced growth in terms of profits, share capital, members, and loans uptake. The Trans Nation SACCO has been offering new pr...
ABSTRACT Despite availability of flexible working arrangements in the public hospitals to enhance the productivity of the health care personnel, performance in most public hospitals remains wanting. Furthermore, the extent to which flexible work arrangements relates to employee productivity, customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction and turnover of health personnel and thus performance remain unclear in public hospitals. The purpose of the research project was to carry out research on flex...
ABSTRACT Organizations are currently in the process of reviewing ways in which monitoring and evaluation can achieve greater consistency and effectiveness in judging the impact of a project as well as getting recommendations on how future interventions can be improved. Building a resulted based M&E system is therefore a requirement by the growing pressure to improving performance which is also one of the requirements by the NGO and donor’s to check on the effective use of the donor fun...