Turnover in public universities in Kenya has become a high profile issue due to the changes and challenges that face the entire education system. Despite the economic contribution of 6.7% Gross Domestic Product by public universities in Kenya, the 2013 Public Universities Inspection Committee of Kenya reported that these institutions… Continue Reading
Volunteer leaders‟ competence is emerging as one of the changes that both profit and non-profit organizations have to accommodate especially as more people look for opportunities to serve, learn, gain new organization experiences and derive personal fulfillment. The success or failure of any profit or non-profit organization largely depends on… Continue Reading
Workforce diversity provides an environment for employees to learn more from each other thus making an institution stronger in terms of tolerance, ideas, innovation and creativity. The changing demographics in workforce composition in Kenya not only increases the amount of diversity that institutions need to manage and integrate but also… Continue Reading
With the development of strategy, strategic literature aspect of human resource management in the organisations has been among the most remarkable subjects of research papers. The 21st -century companies are keen on human resources as they are the assets for an organisation. These assets play a significant role in enhancing the performance of a… Continue Reading
The 21st Century work environment requires workers to have requisite soft skills and many organizations offer internship opportunities to enable students gain these skills and prepare them to function in current workplace. This study aimed to evaluate selected internship factors on mastery of soft skills among interns in the County Government of… Continue Reading
Small and micro enterprises (SMEs) have strong influence on the economies of many countries. In Kenya, SMEs play a key role in economic development including job creation. In 2014, eighty percent (80%) of jobs created were dominated by these enterprises. SMEs are the core business units in Kenya, however many of them do not progress to maturity… Continue Reading
The Kenyan government has been carrying out public service reforms focusing on streamlining the police service and putting in place interventions to enhance efficiency in the service. A review of the police training curriculum was part of the police reform agenda aimed at professionalizing the Kenya Police Service. That notwithstanding,… Continue Reading
The purpose of the study was to identify the challenges facing teachers, heads of department, principals and the Quality Assurance and Standards Officer in in-service training in Imenti North District of Meru County, Kenya. The objectives of the study were to: determine how in-service training of teachers was carried out in Imenti North… Continue Reading
It is increasingly becoming difficult to sideline work life balance and the quality of services given by employees. Technological advancement coupled with new information, the inevitability of prompt response, the value attached to satisfactory customer service and its implications on employee commitment and availability, all require time… Continue Reading
In a globalized world, organizations today operate in complicated environments and under increasing competition. In order to respond to needs of the changing environments, organizational learning has been postulated as an anchor to increased organizational performance and competitive edge. Effective learning has to be integrated within… Continue Reading
Employee job satisfaction has been cited as a key factor towards addressing the issue of productivity in organizations. The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of job design on employee job satisfaction in Kenya Bureau of Standards. The more specific objectives of the study were to find out how employee relationship with… Continue Reading
Workforce diversity can be an important instrument for firms to not only enhance their organizational performance but to be able to attain a competitive edge against its business rivals in the business market and attain sustainability. There was little research conducted to provide knowledge on if and how workforce diversity enhances… Continue Reading
The usage of non-fiscal ways of incentives is an effort by firms to put on in the work the concepts theories of Maslow and Herzberg. Performance is considered to be related through the concepts of talent, opportunity and enthusiasm. Proprietors, supervisors and managers recognize positive incentive hints to improve performance and greater… Continue Reading
Employees' turnover poses a recurrent challenge to most business organization globally. There is virtually no organization that is immune to employees' turnover; be its small size or big size organizations; they are all exposed to employees' turnover. Although it may not be feasible for any organization to totally eliminate employees'… Continue Reading
Competition in the banking sector has been increasing globally, hence, implementation of learning organization becomes a key focus in any organization. Research indicates that employees play a major role in the banking sectors and they are the determinants of customer retention. Hence employee performance is a key issue that most banking… Continue Reading
This study is aimed at finding out the causes of stress among teachers of public Secondary Schools in Starehe District in Nairobi. The study looks causes of stress among the teachers of Secondary Schools. The study will use descriptive research design. The target population will be two hundred and sixty eight (268) teachers in the six (6)… Continue Reading
Employee retention remains a key challenge facing the Dairy Industry in Kenya. The implication lies in the costs related to labour turnover. Costs related to directly replacing an employee can be as high as fifty to sixty percent of the employee’s annual salary, but the total cost of turnover can reach as high as ninety to two hundred… Continue Reading
Public record centres (PRCs are charged with ensuring that there are proper record management practices in public offices in Kenya. Failure by public record centres to facilitate proper record management practices in public offices can negatively impact on the latter‘s delivery of services. This study will investigate PRCs in Kenya in… Continue Reading
Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) is one of the aspects that is attributed to organizational competitiveness both from developed to developing countries. Despite the fact that SHRM influences organizational performance, it is revealed from human resource literature that public organizations and more specifically Public… Continue Reading
The increasing global rates of accidents and ugly incidences in the past twelve years involving students and staff have raised concern for the safety and security of schools than ever before. In 1998, the USA experienced eight school shootings prompting the congress to create the safe school initiative. The National Institute of Justice… Continue Reading
Work force is said to be the most vital asset playing pivotal role in the development and performance of companies. But the question that whether all of the employees are equally important asset for organizations requires a great attention. Best performing and satisfied workforce can offer greatest return and help organization to achieve desired… Continue Reading
The topic was communication and employee performance in Tororo district headquarters. In effective communication can negatively affect employee performance. The objectives of the study were the following: to establish the forms of communication, to examine the effects of communication and lastly to establish the barriers of communication.… Continue Reading
This study aims at examining the relationship between positive workplace relationships and meaningfulness at work in different hotels and restaurants. A relationship survey was designed for the Study ,the survey aimed~ to examine the level of positive workplace relations among hotel workers, the survey was father more conducted to examine… Continue Reading
The study set out to assess compensation and employee motivation in Pan Africn i.i !e Assurance Limited Kenya. It was guided by a number of objectives which were; to a:,scs; the effect of benefit on motivation of employees at Pan Africa Life Assurance Limited, to exarnine the effect of pay on motivation of employees in Pan Africa Life… Continue Reading
This study reports looks at the effect of employee training on job performance in an organization, particularly Ugachick Poultry Breeders Limited. The methods and techniques of training are discussed in details in chapter two, methodology used to collect data is discussed in chapter three, and information about the study was got from both… Continue Reading