| dc.description.abstract | The purpose of this study was to investigate and establish the factors that influenced the line officers' perceived managerial performance in public universities in Kenya. The objectives of the study were to investigate:
i) the perceptions that line officer, staff officers and students had on the line officer's perceived managerial performance in public universities in Kenya;
ii) if the age, gender, academic qualifications, administrative experience, marital status, and religion of the line officers, staff officers and students were significantly different from the
line officers' perceived managerial performance in public universities in Kenya;
iii) if the university organizational size and university organizational climate were associated with the perceived line officers' managerial performance in public universities.
Data relating to the line officers' perceived managerial performance in public universities in Kenya in enhancing organizational effectiveness was gathered through responses to three questionnaires that were identified as POSDCoRB-Higher Education: I (Appendix B), POSDCoRB-Higher Education: II (Appendix C), and POSDCoRB-Higher Education: III (Appendix D). The investigator developed the instruments after a thorough analysis of literature related to managerial performance. Each instrument was made up of two parts.
Part I was designed to collect demographic data of age, gender and academic qualifications religious faith of the respondents, and, the size of the university. The part also possessed question items on attributes of organizational environment, which were orientation, inter-personal, supervision, mistakes, problem conflict management, management, management of communication, decision making, trust, management of rewards, risk taking and innovation and change. Finally, the part also had a question item on the perceived leadership behaviour of the line officer.
Part II of the instrument had question items on the measurement of the line officers', staff officers' and students'perceptions of the line officers' managerial performance. This was an intricate process. It started with the identification of the key areas in the POSDCoRB functions of the public university in Kenya over which the line officers display their mastery of management skills. Systematic list sampling procedures were applied to select the lists of line officers, staff officers and fourth year students in the B. Ed., B.Com, B.B.A., B.B.M, B.A of all the public universities in Kenya who were respondents in the main study.
The key findings of the study were:
i) that a significant difference existed between respondents' gender and the extent to which the organizing process of managerial performance was realized in Kenyan public universities. The return rate of the filled and completed instruments was 84% of the sampled population.
ii) that a significant difference existed between the respondents' academic qualifications and the extent to which the staffing process of managerial performance was realized in public universities;
iii) that a significant difference existed between the respondents' administrative experience and the extent to which the directing process of managerial performance was realized in Kenyan public universities;
iv) that a significant difference existed between the respondents' religion and the extent to which the co-ordinating process of managerial performance was realized in Kenyan public universities;
v) that a significant difference existed between the respondents' marital status and the extent to which the reporting process of managerial performance was realized in Kenyan public universities; and,
vi) that a significant difference existed between the university and the extent to which the budgeting process of managerial performance was realized in Kenyan public.
The study established that the factors that influenced the line officers' perceived managerial performance in Kenyan public universities were the age, gender, academic
and professional qualifications, administrative experience, religious faith and marital status of the respondent line officers, staff officers and students; and, the size of the university. In view of the research findings of this study, and in order to disseminate critical knowledge on perceptions of managerial performance in Kenyan public universities, the following recommendations were proposed:
1. That there was need for development on participatory leadership skills which in turn will lead to development of Participatory Leadership Capacity (P.L.C) in universities in public university management.
2. That there be established an educational management centre in public universities, preferably at the University of Nairobi, due to its central location, to be called University Higher Educational Management Centre.
In view of the findings of the study, the following suggestions were made:
1.That a further study be carried out to establish the effect that the respondents' perceptions, regarding the line officers' managerial performance, has on the realization of organizational effectiveness.
2.That a further be carried out investigate the that influence perceived managerial performance in other institutions of higher education, Kenyan public universities.
3. That a further study be carried out to investigate the perceptions of other members of the university community, like students in other course programmes, teaching members of staff and the other non teaching members of staff. | en_US |
