ABSTRACT Governance and core business strategy view internal auditing as vital management tool. Essentially internal audit focused on internal controls and monetary assessment. The Kenyan government is grappling with inefficiencies, wastage of resources, fraud, corruption and non-achievement of value for money which calls into question the role of internal auditing in management of resources. The purpose of the study therefore, was to investigate the determinants of internal audit effectiven...
ABSTRACT Public Commissions in Kenya are importance arms of the executive in the management of constitutional affairs. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of internal audit on performance of public commissions in Kenya. The specific objectives of the study were; to determine the effect of expertise of the internal auditing staff on the performance of Public Commission in Kenya, to examine the effect of internal audit controls on the performance of Public Commissions in Kenya...
ABSTRACT Increased non-performing loans and the availability of substandard products among SACCOs in Kenya has been a major challenge facing these cooperatives. The current study aimed at determining the influence of product pricing, product delivery, product quality and product design on performance of SACCOs in Kenya. The study was grounded on resource-based theory and stakeholders’ theory that portrays the need to focus on stakeholders’ needs when coming up with product strategy. The ...
ABSTRACT The research investigated the influence of parental monitoring, birth order and gender on adolescent health risk behaviour. Three hundred and fifty (350) participants (175 female and 175 male) participated in the study. Participants’ ages ranged from 15 years to 21 years, with mean age of 18 years. Two instruments were used for data collation in the study: Parental Monitoring Inventory and Adolescent Health Risk Behaviour Scale. A three-way ANOVA was used for data analysis and th...
ABSTRACT The study was to determine roles of growth support programs on performance of micro and small enterprises with a focus of Anza Entrepreneurs Limited (Anza) in Tanzania. The research objectives were to find out the role of financial sector deepening program in enabling enterprises access financing and meet their financial needs to enable their performance; to establish the role of business development services program performance; and to determine the role of business sector program ...
ABSTRACT Investigated in the present study were workplace social support variables and personality types as predictors of job satisfaction. Two hundred and fifty staff of Nigeria Breweries Ama Enugu State who volunteered participated in the study. Their average age was 28 years and they were mainly junior and medium level staff. Valid questionnaire were used to collected raw data about the study variables and multiple regression analysis using SPSS version 16 was used to analyze the data. T...
ABSTRACT The ambulance services industry in the country is very competitive, and most of the companies in the industry are facing service delivery challenges. This study analyzed the association between relationship marketing and sustainable competitive advantage in AMREF Flying Doctors, Nairobi. The specific objectives of the study included; determining the effect of use of technology on attaining sustainable competitive advantage, establishing the effect of customer retention on achieving ...
ABSTRACT Projects are undertaken with the end goal of getting completed someday. Project completion is a collective responsibility among the parties involved. The dilemma and struggle for project completion is a concern in the 21st century. The study intended to find out possible effect of scope changes on project completion among road construction projects in Nairobi County with a distinct case of Langata Sub county. The key variables for the study were; project regulatory compliance change...
ABSTRACT Participation is a process through which stakeholders’ input and share control over development initiatives, decisions and resources which affect them. The concept of public participation in the budgeting process has been extensively examined by scholars. Various scholars are all in agreement that participation of stakeholders in the budgeting process adds value. This study sought to establish the effect of public participation on the budget preparation process in Kenya: a case of...
ABSTRACT Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) has been widely adopted by private businesses and has been a focus of research since the 1990s and it is still one of the top five management concerns for Information Technology (IT) executives globally. However, the adoption of BPR in the public sector in general, and in the public sectors of developing economies in particular, is a relatively recent and little researched phenomenon. Despite the adoption of BPR in public sector its relationship...
ABSTRACT The contradictions of importing over US$10 billion fuel annually for domestic consumption, in the midst of abundant oil endowment, has attracted attention and concern from researchers and investigators. This study, therefore, set out to evaluate the effects of the political economy of fuel importation on the development of refineries in Nigeria between 1999 and 2013. It set as its objectives the task of interrogating the nexus between allocation of fuel import licenses to independen...
ABSTRACT Across the globe, studies have shown that the number of projects that are considered challenged or failed is significantly higher than those deemed successful. Further, in an ever intensively competitive market due to digital disruption, organizations are keen to implement projects successfully to avoid wastage of limited capital. The purpose of this study was to establish the influence of project management maturity on project implementation in the large peer group financial instit...
ABSTRACT The study used a cross-sectional design to investigate the role of emotional labour, gender, and age on employee job-related affective wellbeing. A total of two hundred bankers from nineteen different banks in Nsukka and Enugu cities participated in the study. They comprised unequal sample of 136 males and 64 females aged from 20-39 years (young adult workers), with a mean age of 29.5 years; and 40-65 years (old adult workers), with a means age of 52.5 years. The emotional labour su...
ABSTRACT . The increasing cases of violent crimes in Enugu Metropolis in p.articular and Nigeria in general has constituted the most urgent b economic, social and psychological problems. The alarming and unprecedented cases of armed robbery with violence that, more often than not, results in innumerable loss of lives, severe physical injuries to the victims, raping, loss of money, and properties have continued to give lawabiding citizens of Enugu metropolis and Nigeria in general serious...
ABSTRACT This study examines the nexus between human capital investment and poverty reduction in Nigeria. Specifically the study investigated the profile of poverty in Nigeria in the wake of human capital investment drive since 2005, the impacts of education and health expenditures on poverty level using probit regression model. The major findings of the study revealed, among other things, that poverty incidence by gender is higher for male-headed households than the female-headed household,...