dc.description.abstract | The purpose of the study was to investigate the influence of Kenya Education
Management Institute‟s training on headteachers competence in financial
management, human resource management, school plant management and risk
management. The study was based on the human capital theory originally
proposed by Schutz in 1961. The study employed descriptive survey research
design. The target population was 25 primary school headteachers, 346 teachers
and one county education officer in Westlands sub-county out of whom 13
headteachers and 105 teachers were sampled using simple random sampling. The
data collection tools were questionnaires sets one for headteachers and another for
teachers and an interview schedule for the County Education Officer. The data
was analyzed according to the themes and objectives. Quantitative data was
analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) which generated
frequencies and percentages thatwere used to answer the research questions. The
study sought to determine the influence of KEMI training on headteachers
competence on financial management, human resource management, school plant
management and risk management. It was established that that KEMI
programmes for the headteachers effectively addressed the following financial
tasks, budgetary process (61.5%), budget control (69.3%), updating inventories
(92.4%), and book keeping (100%) and ordering of textbooks (73.5%). In human
resource management, headteachers were found effective in teaching staff
(77%),support staff (53.9%) staff welfare (77%), staff appraisal (84.7%) and staff
motivation (92.3%). In school plant management, headteachers were competent in
resource mobilization (84.6%) and maintenance of school facilities (100%). Also
headteachers were found effective in various risk management tasks such as
handling of theft, floods, insecurity, pollution, accidents and fire. The researcher
discovered that headteachers encounters challenges while undertaking the
management tasks which included lack of enough finances to maintain and
operate school plant smoothly, negative attitude from teachers on issues such as
handling HIV cases and lack of adequate time for training at KEMI. | en_US |