ABSTRACT Income generating activities are crucial for promoting initiative, responsibility and self-sustenance. Despite all the proper structure in place such as good leadership, training, financial management and monitoring and evaluation it is quite worrying that youth with disabilities projects are still collapsing thereby not achieving their intended objectives. The aim of the study was to assess the influence of post-implementation management practices on sustainability of income generat...
ABSTRACT Financial distress refers to a condition in which an organization experiences difficulties in meeting its financial obligations as they fall due. A company under financial distress can incur costs related to the situation, such as high cost of financing, opportunity costs of projects, less productive employees, etc. Employees of a distressed firm usually have lower morale and higher stress caused by the increased chance of bankruptcy, which could force them out of their jobs. Some of...
ABSTRACT The general objective of this study was to investigate the role played by CDF in funding public secondary schools' physical projects within Lugari Constituency. Specific objectives of the study were: to determine the effect ofCDF funding on physical projects in public secondary schools; to establish the role of the school administrators on CDF funded physical facilities in the public secondary schools; and to establish the challenges facing the effective implementation of the CDF fun...
ABSTRACT The study sought to investigate the impact of Women Enterprise Fund on the empowerment of women in Nakuru County Kenya. The study objectives were; to establish the demographic characteristics of women who obtained funds from WEF, examine how women had utilized the same funds, identify the challenges women faced in accessing and utilizing the funds, establish the impact of WEF on women‟s socio-economic empowerment and come up with the strategies that could enhance accessing and util...
ABSTRACT County governments in Kenya are working on achieving maximum quality possible both on the services and products offered. As a result all the Counties have opted for the adoption of Total Quality Management. Despite the widespread use of Total Quality Management still most of the Counties have not achieved the expected performance. However it is not clear why this undesirable situation persists. Therefore, this study investigated the influence of total quality management practices on ...
Abstract Improved capabilities, knowledge and skills of the talented workforce are major sources of competitive advantage in a global market. In order to prepare their workers to do their job as desired, organizations provide training to their employees so as to optimize their employee’s potential. Due to fast pace global and technological development the firms are now facing new changes as well as challenges. Technological advancements have molded the need of capabilities and competencies ...
ABSTRACT The Telecommunications industry in Kenya is full of competition. The companies currently present include Safaricom Kenya Limited, Airtel Networks Kenya Limited, Telkom Kenya Limited (Orange), Essar Telcom Kenya (YU) and lately, Equity Bank Limited with the Equitel money. This study sought to evaluate the determinants of competitive advantage for firms within the Telecommunications industry in Kenya. The objectives of the study were to find out the effect of innovation on competitive ...
Abstract The study determined the contributions of relationship marketing at Jomo Kenyatta Foundation in Kenya. The independent variables were customer retention and loyalty, customer satisfaction and customer service, trust and commitment. The dependent variable was relationship marketing. The study adopted a descriptive design because it allows researchers to gather information, summarize, present and interpret for the purpose of clarification. The target population of the study compri...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the dynamic linkage between foreign equity flows and equity returns at the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) since foreign equity flows are expected to induce a surge in domestic stock prices and consequently a fall in price when foreign equity investors exit the domestic stock market. An increase in the stock prices attracts foreign investors in to the domestic stock market. The main objective of this study was to understand how stock prices in Kenya influenc...
ABSTRACT In the past two decades there has been increased recognition of the role of project sustainability in fostering continued benefits towards economic and social input invested in agriculture. Though projects play a crucial role in fostering advancement in the horticultural sector, complexity and enormous challenges results in intended outcomes not being achieved. Despite the growing knowledge base relating to emphasis on the need for projects success, horticultural projects have increa...
ABSTRACT Women Enterprise Fund (WEF) is one of the efforts of the Kenyan government to empower women through capacity building and funding. The general objective of this study was to determine the influence of entrepreneurship education on the growth of women groups‟ businesses funded by the Women Enterprise Fund in Meru County, Kenya. The specific objectives of this study were to : determine the influence of financial management skills on the growth of women groups‟ businesses funded by ...
ABSTRACT The study sought to establish how voluntary, involuntary, functional and dysfunctional turnover affected performance of employees. There exist few researches and literatures on turnover and performance even though many similar studies have been done in different areas of staff turnover. When organization loses crucial employees, motivation is greatly affected leading to unmet goals, inefficiency, unaccomplished workload and inconsistency in service delivery. The general objective of ...
ABSTRACT The ability to understand and use information from text is a key predict of a student’s success in school learning. Not all factors related to this ability have been adequately investigated. The purpose of this study was to examine metacognitive knowledge and cognitive reading strategy use as predictors of reading comprehension performance among form three students in Lari Sub County, Kiambu County. The study also tested for gender differences in metacognitive knowledge and cogniti...
ABSTRACT This study was conducted on strategic management practices and performance of small scale business enterprises operating in Kitui town. The objective of the study was to establish the strategic management practices employed by small enterprises in Kitui town, and how investment in personnel and skills, reaction to competitor actions,maintaining customer loyalty and product differentiation influenced performance of enterprises. The research involved a survey of 99 small enterprises in...
ABSTRACT Undugu Society of Kenya plays a major role in including CSWs in the current world-wide effort to emancipate the women through empowerment programmes. USK runs several empowerment programmes such as health, education, microfinance, guidance and counselling among others. Despite the efforts by USK to empower CSWs by doing all the positive things that should retain them, most CSWs keep going back to the sex trade. The study sought to assess the effectiveness of these programmes in empow...