Makhamara Felistus

• Doctor of Human Resource Management
• Lecturer at Kenyatta University

This publication is part of a wider study which aims at evaluating Women Economic Empowerment programme, which is being implemented by the Women Empowerment Link (WEL) in several counties across Kenya, since 2015. In Nakuru the programme targeted grassroot women in table banking. To make the evaluation comprehensive in determining the level of wom...

This publication is part of a wider study which aims at evaluating Women Economic Empowerment programme, which is being implemented by the Women Empowerment Link (WEL) in several counties across Kenya, since 2015. In Nakuru the programme targeted grassroot women in table banking. To make the evaluation comprehensive in determining the level of w...

Link (WEL) in several counties across Kenya, since 2015. In Nakuru the programme targeted grassroot women in table banking. To make the evaluation comprehensive in determining the level of women economic empowerment, this study adopted Kabeer's (2005) theoretical framework for measuring women's empowerment. The objective of the study was to establi...

The Kenyan Vision 2030 envisages a vibrant SME sector as one of the key sectors meant to make the economy industrialized by the year 2030. However, the SME sector has recorded poor performance in the past. Because most SMEs expand naturally and in accordance with the initial entrepreneur’s vision, many enterprises in this sector are run in a haphaz...

Public service institutions have often been handicapped by inappropriate organisational structures featuring excessive levels of bureaucracy and characterised by formalisation, specialisation, impersonality and hierarchy. Many public sector organisations do not provide competitive compensation levels for their employees owing to pay structures that...

Leadership development refers to expanding the collective capacity of organizational members to engage effectively in leadership roles with or without formal authority. It is also a process to enable a group of people work together in a meaningful way. Talent management is the systematic process of identifying the vacant position, hiring the suitab...

Workplace policies that ensure an individual may balance personal and professional obligations. The happiness of staff, their confidence, and the effectiveness of the firm as a whole are seriously threatened by poor welfare programs. Protection made up the sample size, which was 30 percent of the target population. To gather information for the sam...

This study determined how wellness initiatives affect the control of healthcare expenses at Nairobi Water and Sewerage Company in Nairobi, Kenya. Work/Family Border Theory and Spillover Theory served as the study's guiding theories. The study used a descriptive research approach and focused on all 404 employees working in the functional departments...

The emergence of globalization has made outsourcing to become one of the widely embraced organizational practices for delivering outstanding services to customers in both corporate and private entities. However, in spite of the increasing trend in outsourcing arrangements, there are inadequate literature underpinnings on how outsourcing human resou...

Green Human Resource Management strategies are required for the human capital at all firm levels for improvement, environmental performance and sustainability. Regardless of linked disciplines, such as politics, the general public, or business, interest in environmental issues has increased in the twenty-first century.Firms are not training their h...

p>Employee performance in technical vocational education and training institutions has been found to be poor. Poor performance among employees is exhibited through a high level of incompetence and lack of innovativeness among Technical Vocational Education and Training Institutions (TVET) graduates. This culminates in problems of graduate employabi...

Organizational attainment is a predominant subject for scholars in the field of strategic management because of the intense drift of determinants and circumstances in the organizational ambience. Industry observers have noted that the consummation of companies in the mass media sector has been rising and falling over time due to the volatility of t...

The primary purpose of any organization is to be able to achieve its goals and objectives satisfactory. Most of the firms in EPZ operate on shift work in order to meet their production targets and workers have no choice but to work on shifts some of which have difficulties working on. The primary goal of this research was to look into the impact of...

The purpose of this study was to review extant literature using a meta-analysis approach in collecting data to identify gaps in the phenomenon of human resource management practices, technical bench competencies, regulatory framework and its link to the performance of Kenya Premier League soccer teams. The study has come up with propositions as a b...

Work-life balance entails to the working arrangements that ensure an employee's personal and professional duties are balanced. Poor work-life balance is a key risk that jeopardizes employee well-being, performance, and organizational effectiveness. Most employees find it difficult to strike a balance between their personal lives and their work obli...

The human resource department plays a vital role in assuring that the employees are satisfied with the job that they do every day. Research has shown that satisfied workers are more productive and committed to their teams. Recently, Kenya Airways have faced numerous challenges resulting from a reduced rate of productivity for their workers and high...

Lack of accountability, corruption cases and misuse of force are some of the ills that police officers in Kenya have been linked with despite the reforms in policing undertaken by the government. This thus points to a need to rethink how police officers' service delivery can be improved especially in the current dynamic and turbulent security situa...

p>Human resource management (HRM) practices entail policies, systems, and methods that govern workplace employees. They are the processes or functions applied to manage workers and direct them in an organization towards development. Some of the HRM practices include recruitment, screening, selection, development, training, and rewarding of staff. A...

In Kenya, there is evident declining results in the Tea sector in regard to sector competitor’s prices from competing countries, commitment of workers and declarations of bonuses. On the same note, although tea earns the country the second largest share of export, there has been inefficiency in production and insufficient demand for sale volume of...

Employee performance at Kenya Forestry Research Institute has been found to be poor, with more than one third of organization’s employees failing to meet deadlines, regarding accomplishing their tasks or organizational targets. This study sought to investigate the effects of job promotion practices on employee performance in Kenya Forestry Research...

Despite the evolution of legal systems in Africa, its development cannot be realized without the adoption of global practices relevant to the 21st-century complexities. Using data from Kenya, the objective of this paper was to determine people's awareness of legal issues, innovation tools for harnessing research data, and innovations for sustainabi...