ABSTRACT The past two decades has witnessed high promotion of microfinance institutions by both the government of Kenya and non-governmental organizations which are targeting smallholder farmers. Despite increase in these microfinance institutions, coffee yield among smallholder farmers has remained low. This has negatively affected smallholder coffee farmers’ earnings from the coffee enterprise and also their economic wellbeing due to loss of income. Information on the impact of microfinan...
ABSTRACT The department of immigration makes decisions in the course of discharging their mandate some of which are contested by those seeking services from the department. The post-work permit verification period has seen an astronomical rise in such contested decisions. Little is known about the determinants of these contested decisions. This research focused on the determinants of contested decisions in government departments in Kenya. There was need to understand the factors that influen...
ABSTRACT Within an increasingly competitive environment, customer focus strategies form an .organization strategic tool for improving product/service quality. Organizations placing greater emphasis on customer focus will tend to attach a relatively high degree of importance to eliminating non value added activities and cost, building closer links with customers, having a management approach of meeting customers' need, finding solutions to poor service, and regularly measuring customer servic...
ABSTRACT Organizations are always in pursuit of finding ways to enhance their performance. One of the ways is to enhance employee performance by incorporating job characteristics that contribute to employee motivation, satisfaction and commitment of the employees. The job characteristics necessary for better performance of employees are skill variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy and feedback. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of job characteristics on t...
ABSTRACT The aircraft business assumes a big role in Kenya's economic advancement. The airline business catalyzes different parts of the economy, for example, the travel industry, assembling, cultivation and the hotel industries, which contribute billions of shillings to Kenya's economy. Competition globally is progressively making carriers working at JKIA increasingly competitive to the degree that Airline organizations are hauling out from working at JKIA, given a case of Virgin Atlantic ...
ABSTRACT The exchange rate is an important variable in international trade due to the expectations that trade reacts to its movements and therefore determines a country’s international competitiveness. Prudent management of trade and exchange rate policies have been associated with faster growth in developing countries. In order to orient the economy outwards, Kenya has pursued various measures from 1990s to 2000s. Despite these export oriented efforts, Kenya’s trade has remained skewed ...
ABSTRACT The Kenyan government adopted Community Policing initiative as a crime fighting tool in the year 2002. The Community Policing initiative was aimed at enhancing security and safety, reducing crime, fear and improving social order. Crime happen on regular basis and continue to be an issue of discussion to policy makers, policing agents, citizens on how best community policing can be tailored to solve these security and safety challenges. This study intended to analyze how community po...
ABSTRACT: Agriculture is the cornerstone of Kenya’s economy with most households depending on it for food and livelihood. Women provide the largest share of agricultural labour in many households. Despite the important role that women play, they are discriminated in the area of access to and control over the agricultural benefits. In agriculture, tea farming was the main foreign exchange earner in the year 2011. But despite the important role tea farming plays in Kenya, there are gender ine...
ABSTRACT Effective management training and development programs are aimed at improving the managers’ performance. Small and micro enterprises have widely been recognized as the major source of employment for many households in developing countries. However, three out of five SMEs fail within the first three years of operation and those that continue 80 percent fail before the fifth year attributed to poor performance and consistent losses. It is against this background that the researc...
ABSTRACT External financing is necessary for many low-income countries to achieve their development objective. External borrowing compliments savings and permits an economy to carry out investment activities. It is expected to provide financing necessary for investment in infrastructure and productive economic activities thus contributing to economic growth and macroeconomic stability. Kenya has depended to a great extent on external borrowing to finance its budget. Data from National Treasu...
Abstract The main purpose of this research study was to assess the role of performance appraisal on organizational performance, the research focused on state owned sugar companies in Kenya including Sonysugar, Chemelil, Nzoia and Muhoroni sugar companies. Recent history shows that Sugar Companies are producing sugar at high cost, cannot pay all the farmers promptly and the raw material is too scarce that all the factories are now competing for it. The industry also faces competition from...
ABSTRACT Entrepreneurship is a vehicle to improve the quality of life for individuals, families and communities and to sustain growth of the economy and livelihoods improvement. Farmbased entrepreneurship has been eclipsed by traditions and cultures as more a way of life rather than a business opportunity based on desired economic gains. Farm based entrepreneurship is driven by farmers who respond to new opportunities related to farm based activities. This study was carried out to assess the...
ABSTRACT Interest rate capping is a form of government control in the financial sector. Over the recent years, there has been a decline on the number of countries using this form of control mainly because most countries are aiming at having liberal financial policies. There are several reasons why governments may opt to use interest rate caps, most of which are political and economic. One of them could be to support an industry or sector where there is a market failure or in areas where a gre...
ABSTRACT Although the Government remains the main provider of health care services in Kenya, Faith Based Hospitals are a crucial component of our society today. Faith Based Health System operates a total of 993(about 40%) health facilities in the country comprising of large (secondary) and medium (primary) referral hospitals, health centres, dispensaries and community based health care programs (MOH 2011). Faith Based Hospitals have complemented the role played by the government in the provis...
ABSTRACT Kenya‟s banking industry has for many occasions experienced turbulence, leading to growing aspersions as to its stability and continued performance. Commercial banks have consequently been seen to be putting in place measures to enable them continue performing as expected. Some of these strategies have included embracing organization development interventions, such as technostructural interventions. From the literature, studies still point to the fact that there exists a theoretica...