Books & Book Chapters (BE)
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2024-03-29T01:57:34ZCareer Development and Employee Value Proposition People Management Future
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Career Development and Employee Value Proposition People Management Future
Mwangi, Caroline Igoki
Career development has gained a lot of interest over time as organizations and employees attempt to match individual goals with organizational goals to maximize performance. Value proposition, in human resource management focuses on the value that organizations and employees place on their worth, thereby the future of work for both. This chapter reviewed existing literature and linked the relationship between the two constructs to inform on their contribution to the future of people management. Global changes have made it necessary for employers and employees to re-examine the world of work and people management. How organizations manage employee careers is strategic in adding value to both the organization and the employees. The methodology employed was to search online and identify literature, review, and analysis were done per construct reviewed literature. Further the link between the career development and employee value proposition was identified. The limitation is that most of the available literature on the two constructs is before the Covid-19 pandemic and does not emphasize the future. The findings are that career though fast changing remains an important motivator for employees as an aspect of the employee value proposition that would impact people’s management futures.
2022-09-09T00:00:00ZPublic Procurement Practice
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Public Procurement Practice
Oteki, Evans B.
This book is a good source of information on public procurement. It is intended to be direct, easy to read, and practical in its presentation. This book will be found useful by those with little or no experience in public procurement, public procurement practitioners, graduate and postgraduate students training to be procurement practitioners. Suppliers (bidders/tenderers can also benefit by learning the tendering processes more so how tenders are evaluated). The book has simplified the procurement laws and regulations of Kenya as an example. The book has brought together several ideas from several sources including the writers’ experience gained over several years in the public, quasi-public private companies and NGO sector. Hope this textbook will serve as a one shop public procurement reference book to the readers.
2021-01-01T00:00:00ZAn investigation into the factors influencing the graduation of women-owned micro-enterprises: A survey of women-owned micro-enterprises in Nyeri Town - Kenya
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An investigation into the factors influencing the graduation of women-owned micro-enterprises: A survey of women-owned micro-enterprises in Nyeri Town - Kenya
Karanja, Tabitha W.; Kimani, G.; Kiama, M.
The importance of Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) in contributing to job creation and output growth is widely accepted in both developed and developing countries, of particular interest is the process of expansion from micro to small that growth oriented make their most tangible contribution to economic growth and job creation. Women-Owned micro enterprises are a powerful force for growth and development thus making important contributions to the economy as workers and as entrepreneurs to the welfare of their families. The researcher investigated why Women-owned enterprises remain the same way year in year out without, an increase in number of employees or any other sign to indicate graduation from one level to another. The researcher wanted to find out why enterprises owned by women operate under significant constraints which greatly inhibit realization of their full potential. Many developing countries have attempted to put in place various intervention programmes to address factors that affect the graduation of women owned micro-enterprises; unfortunately many of them are policies yet to be implemented. Through the assistance from Nyeri municipal-council, the researcher acquired the target population of Micro-Enterprises within Nyeri town which was the survey under study. The research design that the researcher used was the descriptive survey research design. Variables, for instance financial accessibility was looked at among others and their influence on graduation of micro-enterprises. The instruments that the researcher used was the Questionnaire and Interviews. The researcher came up with comprehensive results that can be useful to women in micro-enterprises and the Government at large. Pre-testing procedure was carried out to ensure the validity and reliability of the data to be collected. A descriptive statistic procedure was used to carry out the data analysis. Bar-charts, tables and pie-charts are used for data presentation. Some of the major findings in this research include the fact that many women operating micro-enterprises started their enterprises with personal savings as they could not access loans from formal institutions due to lack of collateral- Due to their low level of education, majority of them exhibited challenges in record keeping as well as marketing which are very essential for graduation of an enterprise from micro to small.
2012-04-01T00:00:00ZA General Overview of Information Technology and the Effectiveness of Supply Chain Management in the Kenya Public Sector.
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A General Overview of Information Technology and the Effectiveness of Supply Chain Management in the Kenya Public Sector.
Oteki, Evans B.
Main objective of the study was to establish factors affecting effectiveness of supply chain management in Kenyan public sector with, specific reference to the Ministry of Finance. The study’s specific objective is to determine the effect of ICT on effectiveness of SCM. The study adopted a descriptive research design with a study population of 120 management staff working at the Ministry of finance. A stratified random sampling was employed to select a sample of 60 respondents. Questionnaires were used as the main data collection instruments and SPSS applied to analyze data. Pearson correlation established that there is relationship between the research variables (r= 0.918). It is concluded that effectiveness of SCM depends on integration of SCM functions with ICT. The study recommends implementation of IT based SCM systems on the supply chain management practices.
2020-07-01T00:00:00Z