John C. Munene

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Managing Director at Makerere University Business School

Purpose – Organisations involved in relief delivery tend to have cross-boundary mandates, which cause ambiguity of roles during delivery of relief services to the targeted victims. Having no clear role, specialisation affects service timeliness and increases resource duplication among the relief organisations. The objective of this study is to unde...

Abstract Purpose –The study aims to establish the relationship between information search precision and investment decision quality in commercial real estate investment in Uganda and as a corollary, to establish the contribution of each of the dimensions of information search precision (perfect rationality, satisficing rationality and decision...

Cost Efficiency Cost efficiency is the extent to which a primary school’s cost is used to achieve the best performance at a given level of input or output under certain business conditions. An efficient school minimizes its operating costs to achieve a given output (Bradrania et al. 2017, p. 194). Cost efficiency measurement values fall into the ra...

This paper examines the mediating role of ecologies of innovation in the relationship between nexus of generative influence and entrepreneurial networking among small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Uganda. A cross sectional survey design using quantitative approach was employed in this study. Data were collected with the help of self-administrate...

Organizations have employees who tend to deviate from norms, come up with different ways of doing things to increase their competitiveness. The effects of deviant behaviors in the organization have economical, sociological, psychological, and anthropological implications. Positive deviance (constructive deviance) is a behavior that deviates from th...

This paper sought to demonstrate how communities of practice can coalesce with high performance work systems to develop an Africanized learning culture that promotes interaction among employees and empowers them to create innovative knowledge for competitive performance. A total of 622 individual participants were selected from medium- and large-si...

This paper examines the relationship between positive deviance and entrepreneurial networking among SMEs. Using a mixed method approach combined self-administered questionnaires and interview guide covering 228 SMEs in Uganda, the cross-sectional nature of this study revealed key nuances about SMEs. The research findings confirmed a significant pos...

This paper examines the mediating role of ecologies of innovation in the relationship between informational differences and entrepreneurial networking among small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Kampala, Uganda. To empirically validate the conceptual model and test the hypothesised relationships, the authors collected data from a sample of 228 SME...

This paper examines the mediating effect of ecologies of innovation on the relationship between entrepreneurial networking and opportunity exploitation among small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Uganda. The study design was a cross-sectional survey, data were analysed using SPSS and Analysis of Moment Structure on a sample of 228 SMEs. The mediat...

Purpose-The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence of the influence of stakeholder behaviour and relationship building practices on stakeholder management in Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects.in Uganda Design/Methodology/approach-We study 115 PPP projects in Uganda using a cross sectional design. Data was collected using a questionnai...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the perceived predictors that explain business process reengineering performance in a third world context using evidence from Uganda's microfinance institutions.This study uses a narrative case study methodology conducted using qualitative data collection technique specifically the appreciative inquiry. We us...

Based on the premise that financial literacy take place in networks to influence the level of financial inclusion, the study examined whether networks moderate in the relationship between financial literacy and financial inclusion among poor households in rural Uganda. Studies have revealed that financial literacy affects the level of financial inc...

The purpose of the study was to examine relationship between teacher competences and organizational citizenship behavior with empowerment as a mediating factor. The study took a cross-sectional descriptive and analytical design. Using cluster and random sampling procedures, data were obtained from 383 usable questionnaires. Data were analysed throu...

Purpose – This study aims to investigate the mediation role of innovation between creative climate and organisational resilience. Design/methodology/approach – The study used a cross-sectional design to collect data about the study variables from parastatal managers using self-administered questionnaires. Hierarchical regression and Medigraph we...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the interaction effect of organizational climate and social exchanges and how they fuse to affect psychological contract in the public service in Uganda. Design/methodology/approach – The paper adopts a cross-sectional descriptive and analytical design. The authors employ structural equation modelin...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the gaps in some existing competence frameworks and investigate the power of reflection on one’s behavior to improve the process of the competences development. Design/methodology/approach – The authors used a correlational design and a quasi-experimental non-equivalent group design involving a bas...

The article presents an account of how action learning principles were implemented to alleviate complex problems in universities. It focuses on the registrars and administrators under the academic Registrar's department. The Marquardt model of action learning was used in combination with the constructivist theories of learning, namely community of...

The study aimed at understanding the role of total quality management (TQM) as a mediator between communication and quality service delivery (QSD) in Uganda's local government (LGs). Data were collected using a cross-sectional research design from 212 LGs whose heads of department and section heads formed the unit of inquiry. The paper utilises the...

Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine the actions owner‐managers of small businesses undertake in managing working capital. Design/methodology/approach The study adopted an exploratory research design. The point of saturation was achieved after ten owner‐managers were interviewed. Data were analyzed using content analysis technique with...

Data provided by 7380 middle managers from 60 nations are used to determine whether demographic variables are correlated with managers’ reliance on vertical sources of guidance in different nations and whether these correlations differ depending on national culture characteristics. Significant effects of Hofstede’s national culture scores, age, gen...

Action plays a central role in entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education. Based on action regulation theory, we developed an action-based entrepreneurship training. The training put a particular focus on action insofar as the participants learned action principles and engaged in the start-up of a business during the training. We hypothesized...

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ORIENTATION: This article focused on the need for improved employer-employee relationships in order for public universities in Uganda to achieve their intended objectives. RESEARCH PURPOSE: The purpose of this article was to review the need for appropriate employer-employee relationships that will ensure quality services and service delivery in pub...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report the findings of the mediation effect of innovation in the relationship between knowledge management and organisational resilience. Design/methodology/approach The study adopts a cross‐sectional design to collect data used to carry out mediation analysis. Findings Innovation had an effect on organisat...

This was an exploratory study in which we examined managerial innovations in Nigeria. We interviewed 60 managers in 30 private and public organizations selected on the basis of having innovated in the two years before the study. We found a total of 104 entrepreneurial (20 per cent), technological (40 per cent) and administrative (37 per cent) innov...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to establish the relationship between performance management practices, employee attitudes and managed performance. Design/methodology/approach Using a disproportionate stratified purposive approach, a sample of 900 employees was drawn from four public universities in Uganda. Findings The paper reveals that pe...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the need for managers of public universities to pay attention to performance management practices and information communication technology (ICT) adoption in order to achieve successful managed performance. Design/methodology/approach – Using a disproportionate stratified purposive approach, a sa...

The purpose of this article is to examine the salesforce behavioural performance in commercial firms using a phenomenological approach. A sample of 75 accounts relationship managers (ARMS) from 15 commercial banks was selected. Results reveal that background factors provided vicarious reinforcement behaviours while vicarious punishment reinforced s...

This paper highlights the differences between men and women in bank loan negotiations. It presents findings of an ex post facto design study that involved administering questionnaires to 289 respondents who had ever applied for a loan from a Ugandan commercial bank from 1999 through 2005. Results showed that male and female respondents differed in...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to establish the relevant competencies possessed by engineering lecturers and the relationship between those competencies and the exhibited organisational citizenship behaviours (OCB). Design/methodology/approach The study was carried out in two phases. Phase one was qualitative using a competency interview gui...

In this paper we present findings from a study that was designed, based on a cheating experiment conducted to a sample of 390 university students in an examination situation. We discuss the development of a local (Ugandan) measure of attitudes towards honesty, which can be used for assessing aspects of dishonest and unreliable behaviour among indiv...

Data are presented showing how middle managers in 47 countries report handling 8 specific work events, including events focused on the manager's subordinate work team and other referring to relations with the wider organization. The data are used to test the ability of cultural value dimensions derived from the work of G. Hofstede (1994), F. Trompe...

We explore the relevance of national differences in values to development in sub!Saharan Africa using data from two recent global surveys. The evidence indicates a shared black African culture that emphasizes hierarchy, embeddedness and mastery in contrast to egalitarianism, autonomy and harmony, in keeping with the literature on Africa. Further ev...

Cette étude fut mise sur pied pour examiner une pratique nigérienne connue localement comme le ‘Not‐on‐seat’, l'équivalent dans ce pays du concept de manque de ponctualité, qui signifie arriver à l'heure, quitter les lieux immédiatement après et y retourner seulement des heures plus tard. La pratique était considérée comme un aspect des attitudes d...

The extent of role conflict, role ambiguity, and role overload reported by middle managers from 21 nations was related to national scores on power distance, individualism, uncertainty avoidance, and masculinity. We adapted earlier role stress scales and assessed equivalence using multigroup confimatory factor analysis. Role stresses varied more by...

The focus of this study is on the effect of institutional envioronment on organizational decision making in an African state. Three empirical studies were conducted consecutively in Nigeria. The first one provided the instrument for the subsequent studies. The instrument, containing 26 items, was factor analyzed in the second and third studies. In...

This paper explores normative commitment using a sample of 60 agricultural extension workers in a voluntary rural development programme. Organizational commitment is related to participation, standardization, and coordination in order to examine their relative influence on the visit effort of extension agents. Age, education, salary, tenure, positi...

This study examined the concept of unemployability. A brief theoretical analysis using an expectancy model revealed that a major assumption of the model invalidates its potential to explain the behaviour of the unemployables, since they often have little choice in the labour market. Insights into the possible theoretical meaning of the construct we...

The Fullemploy Training Scheme is an experiment designed to overcome problems encountered by disadvantaged youth in Britain's Manpower Services Commission's job training program. The aim of the scheme is to bring minority disadvantaged young people into a special office skills training course which would combine vocational training with instruction...

The study set out to identify a set of functional or operant competences relevant to primary school teaching in Uganda. It was prompted by a need to search for valid teacher practices that can be used as an input in designing an output oriented job description and setting clear performance targets for primary school teachers in the Country. We inte...

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