A survey of employee participation in management in the top ranking private secondary schools in Nairobi
Abstract
The possiblecause of good performance of students in private secondary schools
is employee commitment to duty. This comes about through effective employee
participation in management in schools. This study was undertaken with two
objectives in mind:
1. To establish the extent of employee participation in management in the
private secondary Schools in Nairobi.
2. Identify the challenges that employee participation present to management in
the private secondary Schools in Nairobi.
To meet these objectives the researcher used survey design, proportionate
stratified random sampling procedure, out of the top 100 schools in the country,
listed in the Kenya education Directory (2004), 17 were private schools based in
Nairobi. 30% of employees in each school were selected, in total they were 208
targeted respondents. Data was collected through the questionnaires and was
analyzed by using frequency distribution tables, percentages, graphs and bar
charts. The research findings revealed that employees participate in
management moderately and the most popular forms of participation is team
work. The main challenge to participative management is communication barriers
and organizational structure. Further studies should be done on employee
participation in public schools and determination of viability of trade union
participation in private schools.
Citation
Masters Of Business Administration (MBA) Degree, University of NairobiPublisher
University of Nairobi School of Business
Description
A Management Research Project submitted in
partial fulfillment of the requirements of the
Master of Business Administration Degree