ABSTRACT This paper examines the impact of sand harvesting from rivers on the environment, water quality and quantity along Thwake River, Makueni County. Sand acts as a safe aquifer for water flowing below and through it. Removal of sand results in destruction of underground aquifers and loss of safe water. Sand scooping adversely affects surface water quality and quantity and damages the aquatic ecosystem. Haulage of sand by heavy trucks causes environmental degradation by accelerating soil...
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Kenya have not performed creditably well and hence have not played the expected vital and vibrant role in the economic growth and development of Kenyan economy. This situation has been of great concern to the government, citizenry, operators, practitioners and the organized private sector groups especially because many of the SMEs owners are faced with unpredictable operating environment which presents many entrepreneurs with a challenge of both growing ...
Adoption of integrated financial management and information system (IFMIS) is for effective management and sourcing procedures within the government, and it is meant for streamlining the financial processes and provision of standard, real-time and accurate financial statements. IFMIS aims at cutting down cost of operations, corruption and fraudulent activities and increase transparency and accountability within government ministries and agencies. But the challenges associated with financial m...
ABSTRACT Group based lending has been synonymous with most borrowers of the lower economic end in the developing world and this is no exemption to borrowers in Kenya. For a long time low income earners had been left out and were previously unbanked. The microfinance model through group lending has ensured inclusion of these players to the economy. Group lending is done through self-organised groups of individuals mostly between 5 and 20 who lack mainstream collateral but can co guarantee eac...
ABSTRACT Under the Kenya vision 2030, the financial services sector aims at creating a vibrant and globally competitive financial sector promoting high-levels of savings and financing for Kenya‟s investment needs. It also aims to ensure macroeconomic stability as well as reducing the volatility of returns in Nairobi securities exchange. This study aimed at investigating the macroeconomic variables and stock market return in Nairobi securities exchange limited. The study focused on exchang...
Companies now face more challenges as the turbulence in the environment continues. Getting and maintaining loyal customers for higher organizational performance is critical for survival and growth. This study aimed at identifying the effect of the customer relationship marketing on organizational performance in the crop protection industry, with a case study of RealIPM Company. There have been prices adjustments due to competition, promotional material and rebranding and all this efforts...
Within the county government, there has been an element of discontent amongst various cadres of employees over differential compensation structures. These different groups of staff have different working terms and reward structures despite working for the same employer and sometimes in jobs requiring equivalent qualifications. The existing studies have not examined employee satisfaction within the county government system in a devolved government structure. The influence of the different...
Abstract Due to the increasing forms of environmental degradation, many countries have realized the importance of safeguarding their natural resource bases and have made such management actions like river rehabilitation their priority. This project report explores and analyses the challenge of cleaning and maintaining Mathare River in the face of the Mathare slum settlements in Nairobi. It was carried out between September 2013 and April 2014. Mathare River is one of the three rivers within ...
With the globalization and technological advancement rapidly engulfing the developing economies a lot of changes are taking place in business circles. Local industries are slowly being marginalized by multinational companies and franchised sectors. These trends have not spared local alcoholic beverages manufacturers and distributors. Giant distributors are slowly edging out smaller and medium enterprises because of their bargaining power, product line dominance, price control and their a...
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is a complex system which is very useful in an organisation by making resources accessible from one interface hence improving efficiency, data integrity and customer satisfaction. However the implementation of ERPs is complex hence the need to evaluate relationships between ERP implementation factors and Organisational performance ERPs can be viewed in a “4P model” composed of 4Ps namely Product representing software component or modules installed; ...
The dynamism of the business environment implies that organization have to constantly redesign their strategies in order to remain competitive or to survive. The capacity for an organization to thrive in such an environment will be dependent upon their capacities to come up with appropriate strategies. This study sought to assess the strategic responses to the performance among public enterprises in Kenya, with a case study of Postal Corporation of Kenya branches in Mandera County. The s...
Abstract The study investigated on factors influencing Corporate Social Responsibility programmes implementation in the commercial banks in Kenya. Currently there are 44 commercial banks in Kenya as per the Central Bank of Kenya 2011. From 2005 to date commercial banks are actively engaging themselves in the CSR Programmes. The findings of this study will be significant to the commercial bank management in the decision making to know whether they should continue investing in CSR or not. Othe...
ABSTRACT Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) is one of the aspects that is attributed to organizational competitiveness both from developed to developing countries. Despite the fact that SHRM influences organizational performance, it is revealed from human resource literature that public organizations and more specifically Public Universities in Kenya are experiencing deteriorating in performance due to issues associated to failure to adopt SHRM policies. High turnovers, periodical st...
The level of preparedness of the counties to face the challenges of effective service delivery of the devolved functions and potential complexities to ensure that they are managed strategically is a major concern. Devolution faces myriad challenges thereby falling short of addressing implementation of devolved functions. This study endeavored to investigate the determinants of implementation of devolved functions in Machakos County. The specific objectives of the study are to: evaluate w...
Abstract The objectives that are stated by the BSC are more than just a collection of financial and non-financial measures; it is a holistic process of identifying the individual parts, needs and goals of the organization and recognizing that each arm is intimately connected to the success and health of the firm as a whole. If organizations are to survive and succeed in the information age of exceptional competition, it is vital that they derive strategies and implement measurement capabilit...