dc.contributor.author | Osino, Stephen R | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-03-22T07:52:10Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011-10 | |
dc.identifier.citation | MBA Thesis | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/14919 | |
dc.description.abstract | Kenya’s history since independence has witnessed a culture of strong labour movements
where trade unions have earned their mark both in the pre-independence struggle for freedom
and post independence struggles championing the workers’ course. They have often come
out as the voice of the worker with legislation in place bestowing on them the right to
represent workers in bargaining with employers.
Despite eminence of trade unions as the champions of workers in the employment industry, a
unique phenomenon has been going on at the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority. Here the staff
without union representation have for over 20 years engaged the employer and succeeded in
improving their terms even where the unions failed, casting doubt as to the role of unions in
this organization and posing the question as to whether bargaining for terms and conditions
of service can be feasible outside a union structure. This research therefore set to determine
how well the practice of bargaining on terms and conditions of service outside union
representation is working at the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority.
The research was conducted as a case study and data collected through interviewing
respondents. Six instances where staff took to industrial action without union representation
were enumerated to respondents and their opinion sought as to the extent each measured up
to a normal union led bargaining. The findings are that five (5) of these instances measured
up to the standards of any other normal union led bargaining by over 80%. This has therefore
led to the conclusion that the practice of staff bargaining for their terms and conditions
outside union representation at the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority has worked like any other
union led bargaining and has been used by these staffs for over 20 years. It is therefore
recommended among others that the unions trying to penetrate this area have to re-look at
their strategies with the view to regaining their position here. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | University of Nairobi | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.subject | Kenya Civil Aviation Authority | en |
dc.subject | Union representation | en |
dc.subject | Terms & conditions | en |
dc.subject | Staff bargaining | en |
dc.title | The Practice of Staff Bargaining on Terms and Conditions of Service Outside Union Representation in the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |
local.publisher | School of Business, University of Nairobi | en |