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Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy And Financial Performance Of Deposit Taking SACCOs In Kenya
(2015-08) Kinyua, Jesse M.; Amuhaya, Iravo; Namusonge, Gregory
This study sought to establish the relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility strategy and the financial performance of deposit taking Savings and Credit Co-operatives societies in Kenya. The SACCO subsector is part of the Kenyan Co-operative sector comprising of both financial and non financial cooperatives. Saving and credit co-operative (SACCO) are the financial cooperatives. They are an important part of the financial sector in Kenya, providing savings, credit and insurance services to a large portion of the population. Stakeholder management is paramount in creating trust and confidence to key stakeholder especially in deposits taking SACCOs and in keeping them satisfied. It has been argued that CSR has an indirect influence in determining whether or not a company is or remain successful or not. Descriptive research method and inferential analysis was used in this study. Questionnaires ware used to collect primary data. To ensure that the research instrument yields valid data, the researcher engaged expert in the relevant field in scrutinizing it. The designed instrument was counter checked by the supervisor and peers in the area of specialization. Pilot study was carried out to check on the reliability and validity of the instrument and a Cronbach‘s Alpha of 0.915 was obtained. Data was collected from a sample of 54 Deposit taking SACCOs out of a population of 180 licensed DTS. This made a sample of 130 respondents. Collected data was then edited in the field to clean it up. Data was processed using descriptive analysis and multiple regression analysis performed to determine the relationships between the stakeholder generic strategies and performance of SACCO societies. Data analysis was done using Statistical Package of Social Science (SPSS) Version 20. Research findings were that CSR strategy has positive relationship with the performance of deposit taking SAACOs. The research contributes to both stakeholder management and CSR theories by supporting previous studies that stakeholder management strategies have positive relationship with SACCO societies‘ performance. The study offered practical recommendations to managers to be proactive in stakeholder management and to adopt CSR as a strategy to enhance various relationships and financial performance of their SACCOs.
Effect of technology and information systems on revenue collection by the county government of Embu, Kenya.
(2017-05) Karimi, Harriet; Maina, Kimani E.; Kinyua, Jesse M.
Improvement of revenue collection in counties is the key to meeting their financial obligations leading to realization of their mandate to offer quality and timely services to the residents, the demand for which may exceed the available resources. Many counties have adequate revenue bases to finance the current level of services, but revenue collection levels are often low. According to reports by the Controller of Budget, revenue collection by 14 counties in Kenya fell below amounts generated by the former local authorities under their respective jurisdictions during the 2013/2014 financial year. In addition, the analysis showed that most counties failed to meet their local revenue collection targets. Several counties have been slammed with labour strikes and go-slows among their workforce due to delayed salaries and/or poor remuneration of employees working under the county governments. The purpose of this study was to establish the effect of technology and information systems on revenue collection by County governments in Kenya. The study was guided by technology acceptance theory. The study employed a descriptive survey research design. The target population of the study comprises all county government employees in Kenya. Purposive sampling and simple random sampling was used to select 102 respondents for the study. Content Validity was used as a validity test while Cronbach alpha coefficient was used for reliability test where a reliability coefficient of 0.7 was obtained and accepted. Data was collected using self-administered semi-structured questionnaires. Overall; it was found that technology and information systems had the effect on revenue collection. The study recommends a revision of the County’s Act and the integration of information systems in the management activities of Embu County. The findings of this study shall be beneficial to county governments as they were in a position to establish corrective measures and formulate policies to harness revenue collection.
Factors Influencing Successful Implementation Of Biomedical Research Projects: A Case Of Kenya Medical Research Institute
(2015-08) Wachira, Sabina W.; Kidombo, Harriet; Kinyua, Jesse M.
The general objective of this research project was to examine factors influencing successful implementation of biomedical research projects in Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI). These research sought to achieve five specific objectives with the key variables examined being the dependent variable successful implementation of biomedical projects in KEMRI and independent variables of top management support, organization structure, communication system, project team leader and procurement procedures. The research design employed in conducting this study is descriptive research design. Regression Analysis model is also used. The study used questionnaire to collect data, which incorporated qualitative and quantitative data. Participants in this study were KEMRI scientific staffs who have been involved in project implementation. The sample size used was 90 scientific staff. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS version 20.0) was used to analyze data. Regression model showed a significance relationship between; top management support P value 0.006, organization structure P value 0.001, project leader performance P value 0.029, procurement procedure P value 0.006 and successful implementation of biomedical projects. Recommendation: The roles the top management‟s plays during project implementation should be standardized to all projects to make sure all project gets equal or relatively the same attention from the top management. The adoption of project friendly organization structure will keenly consider projects and success rate of project will be high and within the time limit given to each projects. It is important for the institute organization structure to have project related structure. The bureaucracy of communication which takes long and it‟s not effective should be done away with and embrace the faster and effective way of communication. The projects leaders should be offered indoor training to enhance their project management skills. The top management should have checks and control of procurements procedures to enhance its effectiveness. In conclusion the study found out that the project leaders are committed to successful implementation of the project. The top management should devise a way of assisting the project leaders in project implementation. The coordination of projects is easier if the organization structure fully supports projects. Communication is one of most challenging and difficult tasks in any project implementation. The communication between the project team and top management in KEMRI should be improved.
Influence of Entrepreneurial Management on the Growth of Small and Medium Tour Firms in Kenya
(2015) Kinyua, Jesse M.; Kimani, Anthony
This study focused on proprietors and business development managers of the 367 tour companies in Kenya members of Kenya Association of Tour Operators (KATO). The sample size was 256 proprietors and business development managers who were selected randomly from the population. To collect primary data a semi-structured questionnaire with both close-ended and open-ended questions was used. A pre-test was conducted to increase the reliability and validity of the data collection tool. The data collected was then analyzed using descriptive statistics. The researcher further employed a multivariate regression model to study the relationship between entrepreneurial management and growth of small and medium tour companies in Kenya. The study established that entrepreneurial management influences growth of business in the tour companies to a great extent. The study has also illustrated that resource gap identification, opportunity commitment, and social capital development and growth orientation influences growth of business of the small and medium tour companies in Kenya to a great extent. The study recommends that firms should in place mechanism to seek to establish slack in performance as a result of resources inadequacies, seizes any promising business opportunity, develop social capital to ensure business growth and continuity, and effect changes in the management systems employed in search of growth.
Organizational Factors that Influence Implentation of Strategic Plans in Private Secondary Schools in Nairobi
(2017-06) Nyagemi, Abel; Njeru, Winnie; Kinyua, Jesse M.
The study sought to establish organizational factors influencing implementation of strategic plans in private secondary schools Nairobi. Specifically, the study aimed at determining the effects of top management commitment, coordination of activities, employee skills and responsibilities and organization culture on implementation of strategic plans. A descriptive cross sectional study was used. The study population was 101 private secondary schools. A random sample of 50 private secondary schools was considered. A structured questionnaire was administered. Data was analyzed using inferential and descriptive statistics such as frequencies; percentages and graphs. Exploratory factor analysis was used in determining the influencing factors. The study established the following group of organizational factors as having an influence on implementation of strategic plans in private secondary schools in Nairobi: resource constraints (human and financial), overlapping activities, interference from the local government, work pressure, conflict of interest, poor attitude, overlapping plans and tight timeframes. The conceptual model was tested and found to be having a statistically significant relationship among the implementation of strategic plans, top management commitment, coordination of activities, employee skills and responsibilities and organization culture. The study recommends a further study on the specific factors should be done in particular sub-counties to explicate on how those factors affect implementation of strategic management plans in private schools in other counties in Kenya.
Staff Profile: Dr. Jesse Maina Kinyua
(2018) Kinyua, Jesse M.
Dr. Jesse Maina Kinyua is the Chair of the Department of Business. Dr. Jesse Kinyua is a Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management units, Entrepreneurship and International Business. He has developed curriculum in the School of Business and Economics. Quality Management in examination processing in the department. He is also a part-time consultant in strategic management, strategy and Change management. Research Interests:- Generally in strategic management and entrepreneurship
Stakeholder Management Generic Strategies and Financial Performance of Deposit Taking SACCOs in Kenya
(2015-09) Kinyua, Jesse M.; Amuhaya, Mike I.; Namusonge, Gregory
This study sought to establish the relationship between stakeholder generic strategies and the financial performance of deposit taking Savings and Credit Co-operatives societies in Kenya. The SACCO subsector is part of the Kenyan Co-operative sector comprising of both financial and non financial cooperatives. Saving and credit co-operative (SACCO) are the financial cooperatives. They are an important part of the financial sector in Kenya, providing savings, credit and insurance services to a large portion of the population. Stakeholder management is paramount in creating trust and confidence to key stakeholder especially in deposit taking SACCOs and in keeping them satisfied. It has been argued that stakeholder management is decisive in determining whether or not a company is or remain successful and that it has direct environment and bottom line result of an organization. Panic in deposit taking financial institutions can cause great negative repercussions and loss of customers and hence the need for a proactive stakeholder management. Systematic attention to all parties who affect or may be affected by the organization’s behavior is critical to that organizations success. Stakeholder management studies have mostly concentrated on normative branch of stakeholder management theory. It is however important to extend the study to member - based co-operatives. The objective of this study was to study the relationship between stakeholder management generic strategies and performance of SACCO societies in Kenya. Descriptive research method was used in this study. Questionnaires ware used to collect primary data. To ensure that the research instrument yields valid data, the researcher engaged expert in the relevant field in scrutinizing it. The designed instrument was counter checked by the supervisor and peers in the area of specialization. Pilot study was carried out to check on the reliability and validity of the instrument and a Cronbach’s Alpha of 0.914 was obtained. Data was collected from a sample of 64 Deposit taking SACCOs out of a population of 180 licensed DTS. This made a sample of 130 respondents. Collected data was then edited in the field to clean it up. Data was processed using descriptive analysis and multiple regression analysis performed to determine the relationships between the stakeholder generic strategies and performance of SACCO societies. Data analysis was done using Statistical Package of Social Science (SPSS) Version 20. Research findings were that all the five strategies individually and when combined have positive relationship with the performance of deposit taking SAACOs. The research contributes to stakeholder management theory by supporting previous studies that stakeholder management strategies have positive relationship with SACCO societies’ performance. The study offered practical recommendations to managers to be proactive in stakeholder management and to enhance various relationships and financial performance of their SACCOs. These strategies should be incorporated in the strategic plans for achievement of good results and not as disjoined activities. It has provided instrumental contribution to stakeholder theory by finding out that, member – based firms who employ stakeholder management strategies enhance their financial performance, hence extending the body of knowledge.
Stakeholder Management Strategies and Deposit Taking SACCOs’ Bottom Line in Kenya
(2015) Kinyua, Jesse M.; Amuhaya, Mike; Namusonge, Gregory
This study sought to establish the relationship between stakeholder generic strategies and the financial performance of deposit taking Savings and Credit Co-operatives societies in Kenya. The SACCO subsector is part of the Kenyan Co-operative sector comprising of both financial and non financial cooperatives. Saving and credit co-operative (SACCO) are the financial cooperatives. They are an important part of the financial sector in Kenya, providing savings, credit and insurance services to a large portion of the population. Stakeholder management is paramount in creating trust and confidence to key stakeholder especially in deposit taking SACCOs, and in keeping them satisfied. It has been argued that stakeholder management is decisive in determining whether or not a company is or remain successful and that it has direct environment and bottom line result of an organization. Systematic attention to all parties who affect or may be affected by the organization’s behavior is critical to that organizations success. Stakeholder management studies have mostly concentrated on normative branch of stakeholder management theory. It is however important to extend the study to member - based cooperatives. Descriptive research method was employed in this study. Questionnaires ware used to collect primary data. To ensure that the research instrument yields valid data, the researcher engaged expert in the relevant field in scrutinizing it. Pilot study was carried out to check on the reliability and validity of the instrument and a Cronbach’s Alpha of 0.915 was obtained. Data was collected from a sample of 64 Deposit taking SACCOs out of a population of 180 licensed DTS. This made a sample of 130 respondents Data analysis was done using Statistical Package of Social Science (SPSS) Version 20.
Stakeholder Management Strategies and Financial Performance of Deposit Taking SACCOS in Kenya
(Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, 2016) Kinyua, Jesse M.
This study sought to establish the relationship between stakeholder management strategies and the financial performance of deposit taking SACCOs in Kenya. The SACCO subsector is part of the Kenyan Co-operative sector comprising of both financial and non financial cooperatives. Saving and credit co-operative (SACCO) are the financial cooperatives. They are an important part of the financial sector in Kenya, providing savings, credit and insurance services to a large portion of the population. Stakeholder management is paramount in creating trust and confidence to key stakeholder especially in deposit taking SACCOs and in keeping them satisfied with the services provided. It has been argued that stakeholder management is decisive in determining whether or not a company is or will remain successful, and that it has direct environment and bottom line result of an organization. Panic in deposit taking financial institutions can cause great negative repercussions and loss of customers and hence the need for a proactive stakeholder management. Systematic attention to all parties who affect or may be affected by the organization‘s behavior is critical to that organizations success. Stakeholder management studies have mostly concentrated on normative branch of stakeholder management theory. It is however important to extend the study to member - based co-operatives. The objective of this study was to look into the relationship between stakeholder management generic strategies and performance of SACCO societies in Kenya. Stratified random sampling was done to determine sample size. Data was collected from a sample of 64 Deposit taking SACCOs out of a population of 180 licensed DTS. The sample size was 130 respondents. Descriptive research method was used in this study. Questionnaires were used to collect primary data. To ensure that the research instrument yields valid data, the researcher engaged expert in the relevant field in scrutinizing it. The designed instrument was counter checked by the supervisor and peers in the area of specialization. Pilot study was carried out to check on the reliability and validity of the instrument and a Cronbach‘s Alpha of 0.914 was obtained. Collected data was then edited in the field to clean it up. Data was processed using descriptive analysis and multiple regression analysis performed to determine the relationships between the stakeholder generic strategies and performance of SACCO societies. Data analysis was done using Statistical Package of Social Science (SPSS). Research findings were that: there was a significant positive relationship between offensive, defensive, swing, hold, defensive, CSR strategy and financial performance of DTSs individually. The combined model had a significant positive relationship with the performance of deposit taking SAACOs. The conclusion was that stakeholder management strategies significantly influenced financial performance of DTSs. The research contributes to stakeholder management theory by supporting previous studies that stakeholder management strategies have positive relationship with firms‘ performance. The study offered practical recommendations to managers to be proactive in stakeholder management and should adopt corporate social responsibility strategy to enhance various relationships and financial performance of their SACCOs. These strategies should be incorporated in the strategic plans for achievement of good results and should not be used as disjoined activities. The study has provided instrumental contribution to stakeholder theory by finding out that, member – based firms who employ stakeholder management strategies enhance their financial performance, hence extending the body of knowledge.
Strategic Alliances between Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) and Middle Level Colleges in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2010-11) Kinyua, Jesse M.
Strategic alliance is one of many methods of strategy development. It has been defined as a situation where two or more organizations share resources and activities to pursue a strategy. Alliances vary considerably in their complexity, from a simple two partner alliance co-producing a product to a one with multiple partners providing complex products, services and solution. Research on strategic collaboration between firms has received increasing attention in literature during the last decade, reflecting the increasing frequency and importance of strategic alliance in business. In the recent past, competitive firms are truly smart at conducting their business and have learnt important lessons in the process. You need to know when and how to compete, but even more importantly you need to know when and how to co-operate. Many firms these days have come to rely on alliances as strategic necessities for sustaining competitive advantage and creating customer value. In the recent past, higher education sector in Kenya has experienced dynamic changes in the external environment. Increasing demand for higher education as population grows has stretched physical infrastructure of public universities. Government funding has also been dwindling and not going in tandem with increasing demand. Competition has gone a notch higher as private and international universities fight to increase their market share. All these have prompted public universities managers to be proactive and think “outside the box”. We are currently seeing public and even private universities collaborating with middle level colleges in same domestic market. The purpose of this study was to shed some light on motivation of such domestic strategic alliances where internationalization is not one of such motive. The research study through a case study of JKUAT also sought to know the challenges encountered in the formation of the network. The research methodology used was a case study. The study sought to have a thorough understanding of the phenomenon from the perspective of JKUAT. An in-depth case study was used. Data was gathered through interviews with three respondents who were involved in the formation and management of the alliances. Content analysis was used to analyse the information gathered. The study qualified the relationship between JKUAT and collaborating middle level academic institutions to be a network. The alliance were formed with a motive/s of enabling students who would otherwise be locked out of universities owing to stiff competition to progress with their studies hence exploiting this niche market. It also intended to reduce brain drain and capital leaving Kenya economy. The collaborations intended also to tap the resources from vocational economies of scale and enjoy faster payback on investment. The network faced challenges like opportunism by some partners, lack of adequate man power, loss of trust among partners, difficulties in meeting critical deadlines by partners, failure to discover shortcomings before “marriage” and hence being stuck with the wrong partners and lack of experience in the management of strategic alliance by some partners. However, these challenges were amicably sorted out or, they learnt to live with them and relationships continued to thrive. The alliance success was found to be more than luck and was based on successful effort despite natural occurrence of tensions with a failure rate of 24.3% when the dormant (inactive) relationships were included to those that pulled out. The study recommended that the commission of higher education should undertake rigorous inspections to public, private universities and middle level colleges entering into collaboration arrangements. The brand owners should ensure that the middle level colleges have enough qualified personnel and proper infrastructure to ensure quality. The challenge of high demand for education can also be solved by using ICT for online education which should focus from teaching to learning by creating new learning environments. Due diligence is necessary in the formulation stage by ensuring that prospective partners have the right attitude toward quality and the brand owner should be able to confirm this. Trust should start to be cultivated at this stage by all partners and retained in the long run. The study had some limitations. It would have been for instance been interesting to get the views of all network members. However this was not possible, the thirty alliance members are scattered all over the country. Time was a limiting factor as research was to be done within its planned time frame. The research would have wished to interview more respondents to follow up on some information gathered. Some of those targeted respondents happened to be unavailable. The researcher would have wished to carry out a survey from JKUAT and thirty (30) collaborating institution. However, this was not possible and the researcher got the view from the perspective of JKUAT. This should be an area for further study. Other public universities like Kenyatta and Moi University are collaborating with tertiary college albeit on a small scale. A survey study can be employed by other scholars to include them in their study.
Strategic Measures Employed by the National Drought Management Authority for Drought mitigation in Kenya
(Research Publish Journals, 2018-04) Ndegwa, D. W.; Kinyua, Jesse M.
Most countries across the world are still adopting the crisis management approach in their drought management efforts. This approach has been criticized due to its reactive nature. Researchers emphasize the need for a more strategic and proactive drought management approach. In Kenya, the National Drought Management Authority (NDMA) was constituted to manage the persistent droughts that are experienced in the country. However, there is paucity on research focusing on the strategic measures that the organization has adopted to achieve this goal. The study at hand was guided by theories such as strategic alliances theory and organizational adaptation theory to investigate the strategic measures that the NDMA has adopted and their effectiveness. It adopted a correlational research design. Primary data was collected from a random sample of 86 NDMA employees through a self-developed questionnaire. The questionnaire was pilot tested among 10 managers to ensure its validity. The researcher gave out 86 questionnaires but only 80 were returned and upon data cleaning they were used in data analysis. Data analysis was achieved through descriptive statistics and presented through tables. There were 54 males who took part compared to 26 female participants. The study established that there is a relationship between drought monitoring and early warning systems and drought mitigation in Kenya. The study also revealed that there are challenges to drought mitigation which include lack of political goodwill or government support and persistence of illegal tree logging. According to this study the lack of a sound policy framework and the focus on short-term goals are also identified as challenges NDMA encounters in carrying out its mandate. NDMA however collaborates with other organizations both public and non-governmental by sharing of information. In addition, there was a significant relationship between collaboration, education, and training as well as government support in contributing to drought mitigation in Kenya. The NDMA should embrace education and training as a means of equipping farmers to respond to the needs and challenges of climate change. The organization should also develop a framework for enlightening farmers about the best farming methods and practices in light of climatic changes. The government is encouraged to increase its support to NDMA to facilitate attainment of the mandate. Future researchers can also explore the measures that can be adopted to curb the challenges to drought mitigation including illegal tree logging and occupation in catchment areas.

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