| dc.description.abstract | The practices of managing people have undergone tremendous changes. Previously, the duties of human resources management normally centred on staffing activities such as hiring and firing, keeping personnel records and organizing other personnel activities. However, today public and private organizations can no longer afford to look at people as a commodity to be exploited to exhaustion and then discarded. The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which human resource management practices are utilized in public secondary schools. with a case study of Kiambu East District.
This study provides a preliminary view of the extent to which human resource practices have been adopted within public secondary schools. The study used a descriptive research design to investigate the extent of utilization of HRM practices in public secondary schools. The target population consisted of the senior management heads of schools, middle level heads and other teaching staff of all the 19 public secondary schools in Kiambu East District. 40 respondents were selected for the sample of the study using stratified random sampling method. Data was collected using semi -structured questionnaires and was analyzed using descriptive statistics. Presentation of results was in the form of tables, figures and graphs. The results of the study will be important to the various stakeholders in the secondary education sector, policy makers and future researchers who wish to do more research in this field or other related research phenomenon. The findings suggested that public schools in Kiambu East have to a reasonable extent utilized HRM practices such as training, vigorous selection process, compensation, and supervisory support. It also revealed that performance appraisal and employee participation in decision making have been practiced to a very little extent. The concluding section recommends that managers carefully re-evaluate the extent to which innovative HR practices could be implemented within their departments. This is so because some of these practices may be inappropriate to public secondary schools sector organizations due to organizational structure | en_US |
