dc.contributor.author | Ngetuny, Esther J | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-01-10T12:15:17Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-01-10T12:15:17Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Ngetuny,Esther J.,November,2013.Challenges Faced By Female Employees In Career Development At Chemelil Sugar Company Kenya. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11295/62934 | |
dc.description.abstract | The concept of career development relates to the perception that every individual has about
themselves in relation to their careers. Career Development involves the growth of the
employee as well as the organization. The government of Kenya plays a major role in the
implementation of the constitution and thus is expected to be impartial by ensuring that the
30% threshold for women employed in the state corporations is achieved. The study
therefore focused on challenges faced by female employees in career development at
Chemelil Sugar Company Kenya which is a state corporation. The study was based on
the symbolic interractionism theory and the initiation/ modeling approach under social
learning theory. The objective of the study was to establish challenges faced by
female employees in career development at Chemelil Sugar Company.The study
adopted a survey research approach focusing on a population of (810) permanent
employees. The study used stratified sampling technique to come up with a sample
size of eight hundred and ten respondents. Questionnaires with closed questions were
distributed to the sampled respondents and later collected for analysis using
descriptive statistics. The findings of the study were that the major challenges faced
by female employees in career development at Chemelil Sugar were: education and
training, lack of mentors, lack of access to informal networks and gender based
discrimination. The study also established that the company had not employed the
mandatory 30% of women in its workforce as per the requirements of the constitution.
The study recommended that Chemelil Sugar Company should put in place measures
to ensure that affirmative action is implemented and women are not only given a
chance to work across the departments but are also supported in their career
development, the government on the other hand should monitor to ensure that the
current constitution is implemented and the 30% threshold for women in the state
corporations is achieved in the spirit of building the nation. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | University Of Nairobi | en_US |
dc.title | Challenges Faced by Female Employees in Career Development at Chemelil Sugar Company Kenya | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |