Employee Empowerment Programs Among International Non Governmental Organizations in the Public Health Sector in Kenya
Abstract
The main objectives of this study were to establish the employee empowerment programs
adopted by the international Non Governmental Organizations in the Public Health sector in
Kenya and to determine the factors that influence the adoption of employee empowerment
programs by the international non governmental Organizations in the Public Health sector in
Kenya. The study was designed as a descriptive census survey of these factors within all the 45
international Non Governmental Organizations in the public health sector registered with the
Non Governmental Organizations Bureau Kenya.
The major findings of the study are that of the surveyed organizations is that human resource
management policy includes how to deal with grievances and separation of service. The results
also show that 81% of the surveyed organization's human resource management programs
include orientation, staff training and development issues. Only five organizations (23.8%) have
programs that include a welfare policy. Ten organizations (47.6%) indicated that they had
empowerment policies while the other eleven (52.4%) did not have any such policies. The results
also show that respondents believe that the characteristic of the supervisor, the characteristics of
the employee, the nature of the work, corporate policy on empowerment and the availability of
resources are critical factors that influence employee empowerment.
It is concluded that international Non Governmental Organizations in the Public Health sector
have adopted three programs to empower employees: provision of information, recognition of
rights and improvement of capability. It is also concluded that characteristic of the supervisor,
the characteristics of the employee, the nature of the work, corporate policy on empowerment
and the availability of resources influence employee empowerment within an organization. The
recommendation is that that future studies should determine if the level of empowerment of
employees has an effect on organizational outcomes as well as why certain empowerment
programs are preferred by organization at the expense of other similar programs.
Publisher
University of Nairobi
Subject
Employee Empowerment ProgramsRights
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