ABSTRACT The study aims at analyzing strategic management practices and performance of Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) in Kenya. Due to increase in cost of education and dependency by students on financial assistance from parents, guardians, government and well-wishers, it has become necessary to enhance the performance of Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) in order to effectively deliver on its mandate. This study therefore aimed at establishing how commitment of top level management af...
ABSTRACT Horticultural farmers frequently consider marketing as being their major problem. However, while they are able to identify such problems as poor prices, lack of transport and high post-harvest losses, they are often poorly equipped to identify potential solutions. Mango fruits marketing in Masongaleni ward, of Kibwezi Constituency, is affected by many challenges among them middlemen who get larger profit share at the expense of the farmers who apparently have low level of education a...
ABSTRACT Child marriage is a familiar phenomenon in many countries in Africa and Asia. It is a harmful traditional vice, a human rights violation which not only denies young girls a choice on whom to marry, but also exposes them to psychological, social, health and economic risks. Globally, girls from impoverished households are more likely victims of child marriages. Further combined with traditional practices and beliefs, poverty gives education preference to boys in situations of economic ...
ABSTRACT The banking sector in Kenya is characterized by intermediation inefficiency in the form of interest driven exceptional bank profitability.Competition among commercial banks should remedy this situation by driving bank profitability to the competitive norm. This study examined how competition is correcting this inefficiency byinvestigating competition and profitability of commercial banks in Kenya.Specifically, the study ascertained the level of competition among commercial banks; det...
ABSTRACT Implementation of capital projects is in line with Nairobi City County’s aim to contribute to the national and county priorities of infrastructure-led economic development. To be able to drive sustainable economic growth, Nairobi City County government develops an annual development plan that is meant to outline the priority projects. The annual development plan at the same time acts as a basis for its medium-term budgeting and spending for capital projects to be implemented and gu...
ABSTRACT Accessibility of credit is vital for the development of any sector in the country. There has been a big challenge in the country in financing the agricultural sector. The research study aims at analysing the various challenges facing accessibility of credit from Commercial banks for financing agricultural sectors in Kenya. The study was carried out in the various Commercial banks in Nyeri County. Kenya has a total of forty three commercial banks. Out of this, Nyeri County has a total...
ABSTRACT Pharmaceutical firms are vulnerable to changes in their operating environment in many ways and these have great consequences on their operation. As a result of this vulnerability manufacturing firms are required to be proactive and able to formulate and adopt appropriate competitive strategies that will enable them to overcome the competitive challenges they experience in the environment they operate in. This study sought to determine generic competitive strategies and the performanc...
ABSTRACT The expansion of secondary education in Kenya has been on the increase because education received great attention right from the time of independence to the present day. Despite the Government‘s efforts to spearhead this expansion of secondary education in order to enhance access and provide quality education for all, some of the newly established secondary schools have faced numerous challenges which hinder the attainment of this objective. The primary purpose of this study was to...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to establish the impact of enterprise risk management practice on the performance of the 34 commercial state corporations in Kenya. The study was guided by the following objectives:- to determine whether risk control self-assessment affects the performance of commercial state corporations in Kenya; to establish how identification of risk indicators affects the performance of commercial state corporations in Kenya; to examine whether incident management a...
ABSTRACT The study was undertaken to assess the impact of foreign direct investment on the growth of selected flower firms in Naivasha, Kenya. The broad objective of the study was to assess the impact ofFDI on the growth of selected flower firms in Naivasha, Kenya. More specifically, it sought to assess the relationship between technology transfer, technical assistance and capital investment and growth of the flower firms. The research design method used was sample survey since its inexp...
ABSTRACT Despite advances in project management methodologies many projects continue to fail. A project’s success or failure is in part, contingent on effectively managing the constraints of scope, time, costs, and quality expectations. In order to achieve this, it is essential that the project manager possess and display appropriate project management leadership. The study identified four aspects of leadership and investigated their effect on performance of projects. The specific objectiv...
ABSTRACT Various structural changes intended to lower interest rate spread were initiated by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) since interest rate liberalization in early 1990s, but as documented in various Monetary Policy Statement issues and acknowledged by the Industry players and policy makers, interest rate spread remained high. High interest rate spread denotes intermediation inefficiencies leading to disincentive to investment through poor reallocation of resources and lowers effect...
ABSTRACT The dynamic nature of business operating environment has called on business leaders to be strategic in their leadership roles if they are to sustain their competitiveness into the unforeseen future. Growth is important in Sacco’s because it is future oriented establishing ways in which the organizational operations can be aligned to future changes in the business environment to ensure that competitiveness is sustained. The SACCOs in Kenya have experienced problems in the past; some...
ABSTRACT Delinquent loans are on the rise both globally and locally leading to closures, receiverships and even collapse of institutions receiving and offering loans. Delinquent loans in the agriculture sector stood at 4% in the USA, 40% in India in 29015, 51% in Nigeria in 2012, 29,3% in South Africa in 2016. This rose from 5.45 Billion in 2009 to kshs8.383 Billion by 2015 in Kenya and at 22% specifically in the tea sector by June, 2017. The agricultural sector plays a very critical role in ...
ABSTRACT Alcohol and Drug abuse at the workplace poses a great challenge to the growth and development of the hospitality and tourism industry in Kenya. Presently, about 200 million people or 5 per cent of the world‟s population aged 15 to 64 use drugs. In Kenya it is estimated that 5,835,007 of the youth population abuse drugs. This study sought to assess the effects of drug abuse on work performance of employees in selected star rated hotels at the Kenyan Coast. The objectives of this stu...