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The Uses of Satire in Fiction: an Analysis of Wahome Mutahi's Three Days on the Cross and the Jail Bugs
(University of Nairobi,, 2000)
This study is a stylistic analysis of satire as a technique used in literary fiction. The study sets out to investigate the necessity and impact of satire as a literary technique, when used in prose works. The study ...
Employees Attitude Towards Promotion on Merit: a Case Study of Kenya College of Communications Technology
(University of Nairobi, 2000-08)
The study reported here analyzed the employee's attitude towards promotion on merit. The case of Kenya College of Communications Technology (KCCT). Under the above broad objective the study explored the opinions of employees ...
Community Participation in Self-help Water Projects in Kiambu District
(Univesity Of Nairobi, 2000)
Community Participation is a very popular paradigm in empowering the
people to not only to be beneficiaries but also agents of development in their
projects. It is a way to lead to successful and self sustainable projects. ...
Strategic Responses by Firms Facing Changed Competitive Conditions: the Case of East African Breweries Limited
(University of Nairobi, 2000)
Political and economic reforms are sweeping the whole world affecting the
Soviet Union, Germany, Eastern Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa. Such
reforms have created a fundamental change in the environment in which ...
A Survey on Outsourcing of Selected Financial Activities by Publicly Quoted Companies in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2000)
The primary objective of this study was to investigate the extent of outsourcing of
financial activities in Kenya. The rationale of the study arose from the fact that,
current challenging and ever-changing business ...
Effectiveness and Problems of Strategy Implementation of Financing Higher Education in Kenya by the Higher Education Loans Board
(University of Nairobi, 2000)
The major determinant of an organisation success today in the changing and
turbulent environment is the successful implementation of policies. The way
strategies are implemented is governed by a policy framework, the ...
Understanding Hospice Volunteer Markets in Kenya
(University of Nairobi,, 2000)
This study has two major objectives:
(i) The first objective sought to determine those demographic and psychographic variables that serve intensives or disincentive for an individual's volunteer behavior.
(ii) It also ...
The Role of Culture in Industrialization: an Ethnography of the Structure, Culture and Behaviour of the Corporation in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2000)
This study was a comparative examination of the Kenyan corporate culture
as it contributes to making the society adapted in a knowledge-based
economy. It examined 152 corporations from all the sectors of the economy
within ...
Effects of Land Tenure Reform on Women's Access to and Control of Land for Food Production in Mumbuni Location of Eastern Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2000)
This is a study on effects of land tenure reform on women's access to and control of land for food
production. The study was conducted among women smallholder farmers in Mumbuni Location of
Machakos District. The main ...
Group Defamation, Freedom of Expression and International Law
(University of Nairobi,, 2000)
This dissertation is a study in the power of words to maim, and what a civilised
society can do about it. Not every abuse of human communication can or should be
controlled by the law or custom. But every society from ...