| dc.description.abstract | The globalized and technologically turbulent world witnesses increased competition for suitably qualified employees as organizations try to achieve higher productivity and meet the ever-changing customer demands. Public and private sector organizations are formulating and deploying several employee resourcing strategies to enhance employee job satisfaction. Examination of the available literature indicated a limited focus on the relationship between employee resourcing strategies and job satisfaction in the County Governments of Kenya. The study focused on assessing the relationship between employee resourcing strategies and the satisfaction of workers in their respective work environment within the Lake Region Economic Bloc County Governments in Kenya. The specific objectives of the study were to determine the relationship between human resource planning, recruitment, selection and talent management strategies on the job satisfaction of workers engaged by the Lake Region Economic Bloc County governments. Also, it sought to find out whether public service culture moderated the relationship between employee resourcing strategies and their job satisfaction. The study anchored on the equity theory supported by the two-factor theory and affective event theory. The study was underpinned by the positivist research philosophy, focusing on descriptive and correlational research designs. The researcher targeted all employees working in the counties in the Lake Region Economic Bloc Counties. It adopted a positivism philosophy and was underpinned on descriptive and correlational research designs. Three counties- Kisumu, Bomet, and Kakamega, were selected using purposive sampling to form the unit to conduct an analysis. The three counties had employed 14,361 staff who made up the target population. Morgan and Krejcie's formula (1970) was used to get 374 participants for the study. The researcher administered structured questionnaires for data collection. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) was used in data analysis for both descriptive and inferential statistics which were presented using tables and figures. From the study findings, employee resourcing strategies had a positive and significant relationship with job satisfaction, and public service culture positively and significantly moderated the relationship. Thus, the study recommends that counties should improve their employee resourcing strategies by embracing proactive strategies for planning in human resource, innovative recruitment approaches, reliable selection approaches, and robust talent management strategies to enhance the job satisfaction of employees. Besides, a comparative study could offer in-depth information on how employee resourcing strategies associate with job satisfaction under other moderating variables apart from public service culture. Also, future studies should focus on altering the conceptual model and using a large sample size for the generalization to bigger populations. | en_US |
