Kwale County received enormous support from donors and the government for implementation of development projects. The areas targeted were the improvement of people’s livelihoods, these included; small-scale fisheries, agro- pastoralism and the emerging seaweed farming. Despite this kind of support, the number of poor people along the coastal strip has remained high evidenced by the low incomes, low education levels, high incidences of malnourished children, poor housing among others. This s...
Absolute poverty deprives part of the society of necessities of life -food, clothing, education, and health. Considerable economic growth must accelerate access to services like education and health for all, especially the marginalized citizens. The objective of the study was to analyze unique strategies leveraging on Kenya’s vision 2030 strategic plan for alleviation of absolute poverty in Bomet County. The specificobjectives were to analyze economic strategies on strategic natural res...
The telecommunication sector plays a critical role in communication, contributing to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), creation of economic opportunities through mobile money agents, facilitating economic activities, facilitating the provision of mobile money and internet services. The firm performance of the telecommunication companies are thus important in Kenya's context. However, comparing the firm performance of Telkom Kenya Limited with other mobile phone service providers, Telkom ...
Leadership has the ability to bring a vision into reality by making swift decisions and inspiring others. Leadership is guiding people and the company in the right direction through empowerment and inspiration, objectively enabling people to achieve organizational goals, whereas management is a set of processes that help the company to be reliable and efficient. This study seeks to investigate the influence of leadership on strategic change in Nakuru county government. Four specific obje...
There has been a renewed interest on the role of the boards in the performance of an organization due to various corporate scandals and failures. Corporate governance affects organizations‟ performance as organizations with better corporate governance guarantee increased shareholder wealth and limit the risk of the investment. The study analyzed the effects of board structure on performance of all the listed organizations on Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) in Kenya. The specific objective...
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 changes, project...
Public private partnerships (PPP) are pursued to leverage knowledge, resources, and capabilities to achieve public goals. Despite its strategic role in enhancing optimal benefits of PPPs, synergy is a developing concept in most of the PPPs in developing economies, Kenya included which largely remains untested coupled with lack of models to be benchmarked with. The study investigated the influence of synergy on performance of public private partnerships in Kenya: a case study of the Afya ...
Most capital structure studies to date are based on data from developed countries’ firms and very few studies provide evidence from developing countries. Capital structure of Microfinance banks in Kenya has not been investigated; there is no clear understanding on how microfinance banks construct their capital structure and what internal (firm-specific) factors influence their corporate financing decision. This study attempted to fill this gap by analyzing the capital structure for microfin...
The International Labour Organization estimates that, globally, about 2.2 million people die annually from occupational accidents and diseases another 270 million suffer from serious non-fatal injuries while 160 million fall ill for shorter or longer periods from work-related causes. The estimated costs of occupational accidents and occupational diseases amount to approximately 4 percent of the world’s gross domestic product. This implies a considerable loss resulting to negative impact on ...
Change is an inevitable part of any growing industry. The forces of change are brought about by the political, social, technological, economic and legal environment in which all organizations operate in. The study therefore sought to investigate the effect of organizational culture on change management in county government of Nakuru Kenya. More specifically the study investigated the influence of behavioural culture, organizational values, cultural beliefs and organizational norms on change...
The human resource information system is a concept which utilizes the information technology for effective management of the human resource, its functions and applications. It has been established through empirical review that more of the organizations have not been able to use the HRIS for strategic decision making in human resource department. This study will benefit the Sacco management, human resource department and the human resource personnel and scholars in the human resource specializ...
E-health is emerging as one of the most important paradigms of healthcare management due to its significant potential to deliver cost-effective, quality health care, and spending on ehealth systems by governments and development partners. Consequently, the usage of ehealth systems is increasing worldwide. However, E-Health adoption remain low in many countries and even when some of the known barriers have been mitigated by the implementers using several strategies, in several cases, the syste...
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 Mombasa c...
ABSTRACT This research’s main objective is to study the dynamic relationship between population growth and unemployment in Nigeria. The study is of utmost importance as it addresses a strategic aspect of the economy and also considering the fact that the country has been experiencing a slow growth rate and a severe decline in development. A regression model is used to describe the statistical relationship between population growth and unemployment. It is hypothesized that population growth...
The greatest challenge facing organisations is whether their staffs are motivated to perform their duties and whether employees find their work interesting and meaningful. The ways jobs are designed have an important bearing to an employee‟s job satisfaction. Understanding job design techniques and their influence on motivation, job satisfaction and performance will lead organisations to keep the best employee pool for themselves and fend off competition from other organisations seeking to ...