The banking sector primarily differing from the other section of the market vast quandary for administration and financiers comparable is whether or not a most favorable capital structure exists and the way numerous capital structure choices each immediate and lasting persuade business level of performance. The choice on which capital structure to select is among the foremost important and decisive choices within the banks as a result they have an influence on the financial performance o...
Globally most of the businesses are exploiting areas where they can improve performance in the organization.SACCOs have been facing challenges from competition from commercial banks and limited resource. Based on capabilities and resource, proper strategies can be engineered to improve performance and develop in high competitive environment. The study aimed at establishing the influence of implemented strategies on organizational performance at Kenya Highlands Savings and Credit Coopera...
Total Quality Management has been proposed to improve customer satisfaction and has received considerable attention in the recent studies. Despite the recent effort on Total Quality Management, little work has been done on the effect of TQM on Customer satisfaction in institutions of higher learning in Kenya. This study sought to establish the effect of Total Quality Management practices on Customer satisfaction in institutions of higher learning in Kenya. A case of selected universities...
ABSTRACT Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) make up the biggest chunk of any country’s economic block with its capacity to gainfully engage the highest number of workforce. Effective and efficient performance of the economic sectors is critical to economic growth. Sadly, though a lot of resources have been pumped to the sector by the Kenyan government, much is yet to be attained. The sector has been experiencing failure for the last decade. The study looked at how knowledge management str...
ABSTRACT This research was undertaken mainly to establish the factors influencing participation and completion of secondary school education among female students in Siakago Division, Embu County, Kenya. The study was aimed at finding out the enrolment and completion of female students in secondary schools in Siakago Division; and to explore the home, school, community and structural factors that affect participation female students in secondary schools in the Division. It also sought to fin...
ABSTRACT The sheer number of orphaned and vulnerable children is overwhelming. Many wellmeaning donors are funding orphanages as a solution to the problem. However, orphanages are expensive and can only reach small numbers of children. Research by the World Bank in Kenya for example; found the cost of operating orphanages to be six times higher than the cost of caring for children in the community. While institutions can serve as a temporary and last-resort response for children with no othe...
ABSTRACT In Kenya, boy child secondary education is experiencing emerging challenges which need to be established in order to arrest these worrying trends. This study sought to investigate challenges and their effects on the boy-child education in Kieni East District, Nyeri County. The research drew insight from Feminist Theory and research inspired by Postmodemism point of view which began in 1980s.There was need to carry out the study in order to understand the challenges and their effects...
ABSTRACT Financial Audits in the public sector have since independence been carried out manually in the Country. The use of this manual approach in the performance of auditing had raised queries as to the quality of audits, detection of fraud and timeliness of reports presented to parliament. Through the adoption of Integrated Financial Management Information Systems in Government Ministries, the financial function and operations have since been automated. With the shift of the Government fi...
Employee turnover is a great concern to public health practitioners in developing nations due to the fact that most employees in hospitals are favoring being employed in hospitals from developed nations. Nevertheless, the poor state of customer service in some public hospitals in Kenya has caused high turnover and weak self-esteem among staff, making it difficult to guarantee 24-hour coverage resulting in problems with patients care. Thus, the general objective was to establish the effec...
Studies on impact of school feeding programmes on access, retention and performance have been conducted in various parts of the world all of which conclude that the programmes have the potential to increase access to primary education, reduce drop-out rates and promote academic achievements. The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of Home Grown School Meals Programme (HGSMP) in Waita Zone in Kitui County on access, retention and performance of pupils in the primary schools sin...
Various attempts have been made with the aim of to exploring the significance of Corporate Social responsibility across numerous organizations throughout the world. However, there is limited literature that exists about the significant influence of corporate social responsibility on organization performance in Kenya. The goal of this study was to explore the influence of Social Corporate Responsibility on organization Performance. It specifically sought to establish the influence of phil...
These innovations by microfinance have increased efficiency of doing business. It remains largely unclear whether microfinance banks are adequately innovative in their operations given that the number of branches and their clientele base are continuously limited in growth and expansion in Nairobi County. Performance and growth are related in that a firm cannot grow if it fails to post sound performance. The general objective of the study was to determine financial innovation and perform...
Small and medium enterprises globally have donated to macroeconomic visions of nations and their development is important for markets that are competitive and competence, absorption of labor and produce. Some elements are supposed to be connected through working efficiencies and other segments interventions like formation of an enabling lawful and approach framework, facilitation of access to markets, investments of capital, offering trainings, development of infrastructure, building cap...
With increasing competition and the economy heading towards globalization, the trend on acquisitions are expected to rise at a much larger scale with the aim of achieving a competitive edge in the financial industry in Kenya. The study aimed at investigating the implications of acquisitions on non-financial performance of the acquisition of Giro bank ltd by I&M Bank Ltd. The study was guided by specific objectives: to establish the influence of Synergy effects on non-financial performanc...
Most of the road contractors in Kenya have been unable to provide effective services specifically in the maintenance of road. There have existed a sharp criticism against their performance where the Government has come up with strategies like performance contracting, setting up state authorities like KeNHA, KURA, KeRRA and KRB so as to solve this sad state of affairs and also to oversee Contractors performance. The research aimed at developing the impact of project organisation framework...