Samuel Mafabi

Makerere University Business School | MUBS · human resource

Purpose This paper aims to suggest a multi-theoretical explanation using a success story to explain psychological well-being (PWB) among employees of K.C, a small enterprise found in Uganda, a developing country in Africa. Design/methodology/approach The study used qualitative methodology. Based on in-depth interviews with K.C employees, a story w...

Extant literature shows that knowledge management needs the support of creative climate towards organizational innovation. However, existing studies have paid less attention regarding the interaction effect of knowledge management and creative climate on organizational innovation. This paper aims to clarify this relationship by examining the intera...

This paper attempts to build a theory for "cost efficiency" in organizations such as private primary schools using evidence from a developing world context .

This study uses social capital theory to explain the power of social capital in mediating relationship between citizens’ behaviour and compliance in local governments. The research builds on past studies that used citizenship, agency and stewardship theories to examine the mediating role of social capital in the association between citizens’ behavi...

Purpose This paper makes a qualitative inquiry about how organisational resilience can be nurtured through knowledge management practices in parastatals to cope with environmental challenges. The paper identifies parastatal challenges and organisational resilience mechanisms. Design/methodology/approach A phenomenological paradigm through conversa...

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...

The purpose of this paper is to report on the results of the study to establish the mediating role of flow experience on the relationship between psychological capital and happiness at the workplace with a focus on public hospitals in Uganda. This study was cross-sectional and a total sample size of 800 professional nurses in public hospitals in Ug...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine, empirically the relationship between employer branding attributes of reward strategy, people orientedness and; leadership and development on talent retention in institutions of higher learning in Uganda. Design/methodology/approach In a cross-sectional study, data were obtained form 218 respondent...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behaviour among local government civil servants. Design/methodology/approach The paper adopts cross-sectional survey research design with a response of 239 civil servants in the local government sector; data was colle...

Purpose This paper aims to examine the mediation role of behavioral intention in the relationship between attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control and knowledge sharing behavior. Design/methodology/approach The study adopted a cross-sectional design to collect data used to carry out mediation analysis. Structural equation modeling w...

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 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...