| dc.description.abstract | A Performance Contract is a freely negotiated performance agreement between government, acting as the owner of the organization and the representatives. It is an agreement between the Government and a manager of a public institution specifying expected levels of performance to be achieved. It is therefore a management tool for ensuring accountability for result by public officials, because it measures the extent to which they achieve targeted results. This study links perception and performance contracting in the sense that performance contracting is a management tool that an employer signs with an employee. The State Law Office derives its mandate from Section 26 of the Constitution of Kenya which provides for the Office of the Attorney General in the Public Service. The study set out to determine the civil servants perception of Performance Contracting (PC) at the State Law Office. It study adopted a descriptive survey design in order to facilitate the collection of information from a selected group of both the technical staff and the non-technical staff in State law Office. Applying the formular by Yamane 88 members of staff who were selected to participate in this study 88 participants were selected out of which only 73 responded out of which 39 of the respondents were male while the female were 34. This translates to 42% respondents being males and 58% of the respondents being female. Majority of them (63%) stated that the overall mandate of the SLO was to give legal advice to the executive and indicated that the attorney General was the overall legal officer of the government. When asked how faithful the SLO in discharging the mandate, only 37% indicated they were faithful while 33% said they were not faithful and 30% indicated that it was hard to tell. Looking at the State law Office Strategic plan reveals that out of 463 authorized state counsel establishment only 274 are in post. This is a clear indication of how understaffed the state law office is. The majority of the respondents 28.8% strongly agreed with the statement that Performance Contracting was a routine evaluation of work while 12 % strongly disagreed. The highest percentage, 79.5% were in agreement that performance contracting is a management tool for improving performance, while 13.7% disagreed. This was in total agreement with the statement that Performance Contracting is a management tool for measuring performance against negotiated performance targets. Results from the above show that performance contract is enhancing job satisfaction for the participants; hopefully their satisfaction would lead to improved job performance. | en_US |
