Alignment Of Human Resource Management Practices To Business Strategy At Kenya Power & Lighting Company Limited

Abstract

Human resource management practices significantly impacts on the organization human capital through resourcing, development and employees welfare. The alignment of this practices is very vital in achieving the strategies laid by an organization. The objective of this study was to determine the alignment of human resource management practices to business strategy at Kenya Power Limited. The study was based on 30% of the population of employees of the company. This resulted in 95 respondents. Self-administered questionnaire was used in data collecting primary data. The study used mean, standard deviation, frequency distribution and percentages to do the analysis.The study found that Kenya Power and Lighting Company Limited recruitment strategy is determined by the expected employee role behavior to a moderate extent. The company’s training and development approach is based on how employee is expected to conduct him or herself on the job. The study further established that at Kenya Power and Lighting Company Limited the way employees conduct themselves on the job is expected to be time with the company’s business strategy.The study concludes that the Kenya Power and Lighting Company Limited performance appraisal is designed to encourage desirable job behavior. The findings also concluded that Kenya Power and Lighting Company Limited training and development approach is based on how employee is expected to conduct himself or herself on the job. The study finding showed that Kenya Power and Lighting Company Limited performance appraisal is designed to encourage desirable job behavior. The study recommends that the technical standards of service quality, reliability; responsiveness and empathy dimensions should be enhanced further in order to increase employee satisfaction. The findings concluded that company’s training and development approach is based on how employee is expected to conduct him or herself on the job. The study recommends that more training methods should be adopted to increase employee’s productivity. The Study concluded that Kenya Power’s recruitment strategy is determined by the expected employee role behavior