The effects of employee empowerment strategies on employee job performance at Technical University of Kenya

Abstract

The public sector has widely embraced the use of employment empowerment strategies for the purpose of improving the performance of organizations. As a result of employees being empowered, they are able to largely improve on their performance by coming up with creative ways of rectifying mistakes and errors in delivery of service and restructuring the work processes. This study sought to determine the effect of employee empowerment strategies on the employee job performance at the Technical University of Kenya. Descriptive research design was adopted by the study. Non-academic employee at the Technical University of Kenya were the targeted population out of which a sample of 120 respondents was derived, interviewed and was randomly chosen. Descriptive statistics like frequency distribution tables, percentages, mean and standard deviation were used in the analysis. While employee empowerment strategies were revealed to be moderately adopted in Technical University of Kenya, employee agreed that employee empowerment strategies existed and were being used. The conclusion was that empowerment of employee strategies impacted the job performance of employees. In the modern competitive world, there is a great willingness on the employee’s side to perform actively in their role in firms’ tasks and those kind of action ought to be taken in accommodating the view of the employees. Henceforth, the recommendation of study was that employee empowerment strategies ought to be supported by not only by the top level management but also by the middle management at the Technical University of Kenya because this will lead to improvement of the employee performance immensely.