dc.description.abstract | There is growing realization that knowledge sharing is critical to performance achievement.
To ensure that knowledge is shared among the employees of an organization, various
management practices are applied. However the impact of the management practices
enhancing knowledge sharing on organizational performance has not yet been established in
Compassion International. This study sought to examine the relationship between
management practices and organizational performance in Compassion International. The
purpose of the study was to establish the influence of management practices on
organizational performance, a case of Compassion International in Imenti North District,
Meru County. The study used descriptive research design. The target population for this
study was the project staff, part time staff and church partnership committee of the nine
projects in Imenti North with the target population being 145. Cluster sampling and random
sampling enabled the researcher to sample 88 of the 145 respondents. This study used both
primary and secondary data. Primary data was collected by use of three sets of
questionnaires, with each category of respondents having its questionnaire. Descriptive
statistics was used for data analysis. The study found job design, teamwork, participatory
decision making and organizational communication to have a positive relationship to
organizational performance in Compassion International. The practices were found to
complement each other with the teamwork being the core management practice. Overall, job
design had the least effect on the organizational performance in Compassion International,
followed by participatory decision, then team work while organizational communication had
the least effect to the organizational performance in Compassion International. The study
conclude that the success of Compassion International could be attributed to the careful
selection of the management practices which enabled the transfer of knowledge enhancing
learning and the alignment of the strategies to meet the organizational goal. | en |