The study was conducted to analyze the moderating effect of common bond membership characteristics on the determinants of financial performance of Deposit Taking Savings and Credit Co-operatives in Kenya.The sample size of 122 of a population of 176 licensed Deposit Taking Sacco’s in Kenya with both closed and open membership bond was arrived at by Yamane (1967) sample determination...
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Businesses have experienced adjustments or even disruptions in their operations as a result of the novel viral outbreak. The effects of the pandemic on the private health sector business is so severe that some businesses have laid off workers, others have put workers on halve pay or even on unpaid leave. All this is because of affected revenue streams. According to the 21st volume of...
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Initial emphasis on “flattening the curve” of COVID-19 cases by policy makers has reduced the demand for health care and created new costs for the private sector. This has led to a cash crunch, forcing some providers to scale back their businesses and lay off health workers. This has major implications for health systems especially in low- and middle-income countries, where private...
Blue Ocean strategy has been adopted by for-profit organizations for more than a decade now. It is a radical approach to strategy that offers a combination of tools, frameworks and implementation aids that enable organizations grow rapidly and creatively. At the center of the Blue Ocean Strategy is the notion that the competition is rendered irrelevant. It is only recently that this...
The paper examines how firm characteristics impact the association between audit committee attributes and financial reporting. This study contributes to the literature by investigating the moderating effect of specific firm characteristics on the relationship between audit committee attributes and financial reporting of state-owned commercial enterprises in Kenya in the public sector. The...
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Financial institutions have been in the process of significant transformation. Despite this, there is a richness of information on the nature and scope of electronic banking, a scarcity of evidence about its contribution among banks that have adopted it compared to those that have not. The emerging events in banks’ performance is no longer solely dependent on sales. The adoption of...
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Water Utilities in Kenya are mandated and financed to be the sole retailers of clean and safe drinking water and sewer services to Kenyan living in urban and rural areas through the purchase of water in bulk from Water Service Boards. This study investigated the contributions of financial performance on service delivery by the Water utilities in Kenya. The study sought to establish...
ECONOMIC FACTORS AS DETERMINANTS OF MORTGAGE
UPTAKE IN HOUSING FINANCE CORPORATION IN UASIN GISHU COUNTY, KENYA
Mr. Dickson Kipchumba Singoei
PhD student at Kabarak University
Email: dsingoei@kabarak.ac.ke
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Globally, mortgage uptake has increased tremendously due to awareness and improved government policies, good international relationships among many nations. Kenya has...
Effect of Board Diversity on Financial Reporting Quality: Evidence from Firms Listed in Nairobi Securities Exchange, Kenya
Dickson Kipchumba Singoei
PhD Student at Kabarak University
Email: dsingoei@kabarak.ac.ke
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Financial reporting is an important determinant of investment efficiency. The quality of financial reporting is important for the efficient allocation of resources in...
The main purpose of this study is to analyze effect of positioning strategies on performance of Star Rated Hotels in Kenya. First the study will analyze the effect of people mix strategy on performance of star rated hotels in Kenya; Investigate effect of physical evidence mix strategy on performances of star rated hotels in Kenya; Establish effect of positioning strategy on performances of...
County Governments run independently from the National Government. They receive allocations from the commission of revenue allocation and are required to generate their own revenue locally. Despite the expansive measures of enhancing revenue, county governments in Kenya have been performing dismally with regard to the local revenue generation according to the controller of budget reports. This...
The objective of the present study is to examine the effects of talent management practices on retention among academic staff in public and private universities in Kenya. The sample of the study consisted of 388 academic staff drawn from a population of 13,441 academic staff in 31 public universities and 32 private universities in Kenya. Questionnaire method was used to collect data which was...
Effect of Working Capital Management Practices on Sustainability of NGOs in Nairobi County
The study sought to assess the effect of working capital management practices on the sustainability of NGOs in Nairobi County. It was guided by the operating cycle theory and anchored on the positivist paradigm philosophy. It employed a descriptive research design where a sample of 285 out of a target...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has re-oriented relationships amongst ourselves, businesses, governments and to the global supply chain in many ways. These changes present uncertainity on how the known old culture of doings things will ever be re-established, if it ever will. What is clear though, is that there are more sophisticated ways of doing business, meeting, schooling, shopping amongst...
Microfinance has built a lot of attention as a way to eradicate poverty and empowering women, this has been supported by its involvement as a market based approach of risk mitigation in the World bank frame of social protection. In Kenya , microfinance institutions have been on the rise and its interventions having been portrayed as a way to reach the poor in the development process and as a...
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The profitability of commercial banks in Kenya is important to the creditors, owners, employees and management. This study aimed at assessing the effect of profitability on the corporate cash holdings of Commercial Banks in Kenya. Measures of profitability in this study was the return on assets.The population of the study comprised of all commercial banks registered and licensed to...
The accelerating pace of technological innovations has affected many organizations performance today.Some firms respond defensively,seeing technology as a problem,while others through strategic use of technological innovation strategies gain permanent advantage.The study analyzed the effect of product and process technological innovation strategies on organization performance in the Kenya...
Training services by Microfinance institutions, have recently been redeveloped to mainly promote women empowerment.The importance of microfinance institutions to providing entrepreneurial training services made the Central Bank of Kenya adopted it as the main source of financing entrepreneurship in Kenya. Despite this, however, finance is still considered as one of the core hindrance to...
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There are many factors that influence employee behaviour at work. Organizations in the current world, realize that differences in biographical factors are critical in deciding various matters regarding total rewards management. Satisfaction of employees on rewards is to some extent determined by the perception based on the various biographical aspects. It has been known that...
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Ineffective tax audit has been considered as one of the many reasons behind non-compliance to tax laws and revenue loss. The audit of taxpayers plays an important role in the administration of tax laws.The study examined the effect of staff capacity, tax dispute resolution mechanism on tax audit effectiveness in Kenya Revenue Authority-South rift valley region. The study was premised...
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This study was conducted to establish the influence of advertising through media on consumer’s attitude: a comparison of online and offline media channels as used by selected Commercial Banks in Nairobi County, Kenya. Specifically, the main objective of this study was to examine the influence of advertising through online media channels of Facebook, Google Ads and YouTube on...
The purpose of the study was to examine the influence of employee characteristics on the job satisfaction of security personnel in public secondary schools in Baringo County. The study employed a descriptive survey design. The study population comprised 508 security personnel and 169 principals in public secondary schools. Slovin’s formula was used to get the sample of 224 security personnel....
INFLUENCE OF COST OF LAND ON PRICING OF RESIDENTIAL HOUSES IN NAKURU TOWN KENYA
Winnie Chemirmir ,
Abstract: According to World Bank report Kenya is one of the most rapidly urbanizing nations among the developing countries. It estimates that about 200,000 Kenyans move to cities every year and that formerly rural areas are increasingly becoming urban. Despite this, the national and local...
Strategic positioning has a considerable impact on the
performance of organisations that eventually results to improved market position and
competitive advantage. Textile and apparel industry is faced with various challenges in
Kenya; high cost of production due high electricity cost, high wages, low efficiency
machinery and competitive low price second hand clothes. This study sought to...
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Teacher commitment is one of the most important aspects of performance and quality of employees in a school. The study sought to find out the effects of reward system; training and development; performance appraisal and promotion on teacher job commitment. The study used a descriptive research design. 390 full-time teachers drawn from all the 43 secondary schools in Rongai Sub County...
Abstract: The overall objective of this paper is determining demographic factors influencing effective citizen participation in budgetary allocation among North Rift Economic Block (NOREB) counties. The secondary objective of the study is to examine the effect of gender, income, education level, and age on effective citizen participation in budgetary allocation. The study was informed by...
In Kenya, 78% of the population depends directly or indirectly on small trading enterprises. However, their underperformance is of key concern to stakeholders. From a marketing perspective. The main objective was to investigate how marketing related factors can affect performance of small-scale trading enterprises in Nakuru, Nyandarua and Kitui Counties in Kenya. The study sought to establish...
Public participation in many organizations has been widely backed by both theorists and specialists of organizations. The county assemblies in Kenya are indebted by law to liberate very essential mandate within the county governments’ set-up. The County Assemblies have attempted to invoke several strategies so as to successfully carry out their mandate of legislation, representation and...
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This article explores the prospect for higher education management post Covid-19 in Kenya. The arrival of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) in Kenya March 2020 did not only present a challenge due to the closure of universities alongside other schools but also presented an opportunity for higher learning institutions to be innovative in their delivery of content to students. As...
Abstract: Research on public participation has noted a significance differences between fostering an inclusive policy-making process and simultaneously maintaining a competent pool of participating citizens. The overall objective of this paper is to establish the implications of this trade-off by testing the effect of measured levels of inclusiveness and participating citizens’...
The purpose of the study was to determine the relationship between coordination capability, operational capability and export performance of manufacturing firms in Kenya. The study was elicited by the low manufacturing productivity, stagnation in performance and the need for growth of export manufacturing in Kenya. The study adopted a mixed method approach in data collection where a...
Key words: Geothermal, Performance, Service Delivery, Human Resource Management, Ministry of Energy, Republic of Kenya,
The study explores the role of reward management on employee service delivery in the energy industry in Kenya. It was carried out with an aim of optimizing employee performance in the industry as a means of gaining competitive edge that enhances the optimal work output to...
Micro and Small enterprises (MSEs) in Uganda face survival challenges and many of them collapse before celebrating their first anniversary, and those that manage still show survival challenges. This study sought to examine the influence of social networking on Micro and Small Enterprise survivability. The study employed the cross sectional survey research design and adopted the positivist...
This study was to investigate the effect of advertising through offline channels (TV, Radio and Newspaper) used by selected banks in Nairobi on consumer’s attitude. Stratified sampling was used to select commercial banks (Kenya Commercial Bank, Equity Bank and Co-operative Bank). A sample size of 384 was used. The data was then collected using a questionnaire, with questions comprising likert...
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The objective of this study was to establish the effect of product /service innovations on the financial performance of commercial banks in Kenya. The 40 commercial banks was the population of this study which were in operation in Kenya as at December, 2017. Both primary and secondary data were used. Explanatory research design was used. Questionnaires were used to gather primary...
As the higher education environment has become competitive,the higher education institutions have equally increased their competitiveness for students in the recruitment market.Concurrently,higher education institutions are repositioning themselves by trying to offer courses that are“marketable”to not only fill the employment gap but also to guarantee a good return on investment. Theoretical...