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Managerial Attitudes Towards Participative Management Programs: the Case of State Owned Enterprises in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 1993)
Participation of subordinates and supervisors in setting the organizational
goals is one of the most important themes in human relations. Participative
management is regarded by many as a means of enhancing productivity, ...
Why Kenyan Sugar Firms Are Failing to Compete Effectively Within the Liberalized Trading Environment in Kenya: the Case of Government - Owned Sugar Firms
(University of Nairobi, 1999)
This study was carried out between April and July, 1999. Its focus was on the
Kenyan sugar industry in the changing Kenyan business environment.
The study as reported in this project sought to establish why Kenyan sugar ...
The Marketing Problems of Small-scale Fish Traders and Strategies Used to Overcome Them: a Case Study of the Landing Beaches in Kisumu District
(Univesity of Nairobi, 1999-06)
The main objective of the study was to identify the problems in the marketing of fish by small scale fish traders and to identify the strategies used in coping or overcoming these problems. The population ...
Information Skills Concept With Reference to Universities in Kenya
(1990)
The study examines the current changes in the educational system in
Kenya and the implications of these changes for university library and
information services provision for undergraduate students. The need
for University ...
Exporting to the Pta: Constraints That Kenyan Firms Face
(University of Nairobi, 1993-07)
The Lagos Plan of Action (LPA) of 1980 demonstrated the Commitment of African
Heads of States to reverse Africa's economic decline through collective self-reliance.
The PTA for Eastern and Southern African States is one ...
The Use and Management of Open Spaces in Low Income Residential Neighbourhoods in Nairobi
(University of Nairobi, 1990)
Provision of open spaces in Kenya's urban areas especially in Nairobi has tended to be a matter of standards provided in Town Planning guidelines. There is very little response to changes in people's socioeconomic and ...
Major Factors That Affect Livestock Marketing in Kenya: a Case Study of Maikona and North-horr Divisions, Marsabit District
(University of Nairobi, 1995-10)
The primary objectives of the study were to identify major
factors that affect livestock marketing as perceived by the
livestock traders. It also sought to rank the factors in order of
importance.
In order to achieve ...
The Archaeology and Ethnography of Iron Metallurgy on the Kenya Coast
(Bryn Mawr College, 1993)
This dissertation assembled and interpreted archaeological, ethnographic, and
archaeometallurgical data in an effort to reconstruct and understand the contributions of
iron working technology to the development of Swahili ...
The Bukusu Customary Marriage
(University of Nairobi, 1996)
This is a study of the Bukusu marriage as practised before contact with foreign cultures. It is based mainly on oral interviews supplemented by documentary evidence of scholars who have carried out fieldwork among Babukusu, ...
Studying Social Change Through Return Visits: Return Visits:an Embu Restudy
(Univesity of Nairobi, 1994)
This paper outlines research aims and some preliminary
findings from a 1994 restudy of social change in rural Embu
District. The new project updates the author's early 1980s
field research in rural Kenya, and aims at ...