Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM): Recent submissions
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Relationship between working capital management and dividend payout of manufacturing firms listed at the Nairobi Securities Exchange
(University of Nairobi, 2020)Corporate finance focuses on investment decisions, dividend decisions, financing and WCM decisions. The process of balancing firm working capital and dividend payments often determines how successful a business will be and ... -
Strategies Adopted by Amboseli National Park on Management of Human Wildlife Conflict in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2020)Conflicts between wildlife and other competing land use forms and hostilities towards states policies in wildlife conservation is as persistent problems.................. -
Challenges of Peacekeeping Operation: Case Study of South Sudan 2011-2016
(university of Nairobi, 2020)This study investigated the challenges of Peacekeeping Operations in South Sudan between 2011 and 2016. The first objective was to analyze the conflict dynamics in South Sudan. The second objective was to examine the peace ... -
Occupational Risks and Their Potential Impact on Employees’ Health in Kenya Tea Development Agency’s Managed Factories
(University of Nairobi, 2020)The study was conducted within KTDA managed tea factories in Kenya to study occupational risks and their potential impact on employees’ health. The specific objectives included: examining the effect of injuries on employees’ ... -
Kimeru Causatives: a morphosyntactic study in a construction Grammar approach.
(University of Nairobi, 2020)This study sought to study causatives in the Kimeru language. Common Kimeru words used in this study were derived from its Igoji dialect. The study's objectives were: to find out how causatives are formed in Kimeru, to ... -
Al-shabaab Militia, a Threat to Security in the Horn of Africa: a Case Study of Kenya
(university of Nairobi, 2020)Kenya is one of the countries within the horn of Africa that has over the years has been considered as one of the most stable nations. However recent happenings have seen Kenya experience an increase in terrorism incidents ... -
Perceptions on the Use of Performance Enhancing Drugs by Athletes in Selected Counties of North Rift, Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 2020)Some Kenyan athletes have tested positive for medicinal, recreational or prohibited substances that are in the Prohibited list of World Anti-doping Agency. Depending on the nature of their violation, these athletes have ... -
Factors Influencing the Adoption of Greenhouse Farming by Smallholders in Central Imenti Subcounty in Meru County.
(university of Nairobi, 2020)The role of technology in agriculture production has continued to grow in importance over time. One method which has been proposed to address continued food production throughout the year and to meet the growing food ... -
The impact of Quantitative Portfolio Ceiling on Financial Performance of Pension Schemes in Kenya: a case study Occupational Pension Schemes
(University of Nairobi, 2020)Pension funds play a key role towards economic growth and development of Kenya. A part from guaranteeing smooth flow of pension funds to the retirees, they also generate employment opportunities for thousands of Kenyans. ... -
Porter’s Generic Strategies and Competitive Advantage of Small and Medium Enterprises Within Industrial Area of Nairobi City County
(University of Nairobi, 2020)With the ever transforming business environment, a few businesses can be assured of survival and secure returns and it is for these reasons that the intensity of business competition has increased in all businesses. However, ... -
Business process outsourcing as a strategic decision and performance of Coca Cola Kenya Limited
(University of Nairobi, 2020)The aim of the study was to establish how business process outsourcing enhances performance of Coca Cola Kenya Limited in Kenya. This study adopted a case study design for the Coca Cola Kenya Study Unit. This research ... -
Service exports and economic growth in Kenya: a time series analysis 1980-2018
(University of Nairobi, 2020)The view that strong economic performance can be export led has been explored critically on the merchandise exports front however service exports, whose importance is seen to have increased in the last decade, have ... -
Organizational Strategy and Culture co-alignment, external environment and performance of large private Health Facilities in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2020)While strategy implementation represents one of the ways by which organizations achieve their goals and objectives, strategy alone may not significantly influence performance. It may need to be complemented with culture ... -
Effect of Use of Debt Financing on the Solvency Position of Non-financial Public Listed Firms in Kenya
(university of Nairobi, 2020)Business continuity is very critical and is a concern for every business stakeholder. There are several indicators of the business continuity but solvency position is a good estimator and predictor of a company’s ability ... -
The Judiciary’s Quest for Case Backlog Reduction: A Reflection into the Court Users Committees
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Effect of Human Resource Management Practices on Retention of Millennial Work Force at Consolidated Bank of Kenya Limited
(university of Nairobi, 2020)Employee retention practices particularly in the last decade became largely effective because they focused more on older generational cohorts like baby-boomers who preferred to remain in the same job for life. Consequently, ... -
Remittance Inflows and Educational outcomes in Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 2020)The impact of remittance on educational outcomes is of interest since human capital development may break the generation to generation transmission of poverty through higher incomes in the future. Therefore, this paper ... -
Potential for Bike-share in Upper Hill Area, Nairobi, Kenya
(university of Nairobi, 2020)Commuters using motorized transport in Nairobi walk long distances to connect to their destinations from public transit stops which makes them lose a lot of valuable time and is uncomfortable. The use of bike share can ... -
Private Sector Social Franchising and Its Effects on Contraceptive Utilization
(university of Nairobi, 2020)Partnerships such as social franchising have been voted as some of the best approaches to remedying the challenges faced by the public health sector. Yet, though considered an important model of healthcare delivery, ... -
Enterprise Risk Management and Firm Performance Amongst Financial Firms Listed at the Nairobi Securities Exchange
(University of Nairobi, 2020)In the recent past, there has been an approach to risk management where risk is consolidated and managed for the entire organization at once unlike previously where risk were managed per departments or per projects. ...