| dc.description.abstract | Studies have been done on overall employee promotion opportunities at
work place but none has been done on management staff reactions on
promotion on merit; case study of city council of Nairobi managers.
The primary purpose of this project was to establish the city council of
Nairobi manager's reactions to promotion on merit.
To meet this objective the study used proportionate stratified random
sampling procedure. The population of interest consisted of' management
staff in the salary scale of 1-6 at the city council of Nairobi in the (15)
departments. The data was collected using semi-structured questionnaires,
which were administered to a sample of 40 respondents through the drop and
pick method. The response rate was 82.5 % the data was analyzed usmg
descriptive statistics.
The study results revealed that several measures if put in place wi II ensure
success of promotion on merit this factors measures include Giving
employees challenging responsibilities, Offering employees more training
opportunities, Paying employees based on their job performance, Advocacy
in the promotion policy, Recognizing individual contributions, having well
established career ladders amongst others. Further promotion on merit can
be successful if several suggestions can be considered for example;
Promotions being preceded by job analysis and perforuance appraissal,
workable Promotion policy, basing Promotions on merit-cum seniority,
setting Perfomance targets by both parties and Politics not influencing
employee promotion amongst others.
IV
The research recommends a combination of various factors to consider one
for promotions of employees in management levels. Further research needs
to be done on the same subject but in other sectors also attempts should be
made to incorporate additional endogenous variables that may be affected by
promotion on merit such as motivation, confl ict- management performance
of employees and employee career advancement. Secondly the study looked
at reactions of management staff to promotion on merit at the City Counci I
of Nairobi. This is an area that needs to be looked at in great depth in other
sectors. Lastly it is evident from the study that there is still a great need for
research to be carried out in broad area of promotion on merit in the entire
City Council of Nairobi incorporating all the employees and also other local
authority councils as there seems to be limited data on the area. | en |
