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Integration of E-Supplier Management and Organizational Performance of Parastatals in Nakuru County
No full textMaster of Business Administration (Procurement and Supply Chain Management Option), 2022This study sought to investigate the integration of e-supplier management and its influence on organizational performance. The study aimed to specifically; analyse e-information sharing and its influence on organizational performance, investigate e-tendering and its influence on organizational performance, assess e-payments influence on organizational performance and examine e-point of sale influence on organizational performance. Since suppliers are an important asset for organisational performance, it is imperative that they are well managed to establish mutual benefits. Therefore, the goal was to investigate whether parastatals had integrated e-supplier management in their already existing ICT capabilities to influence organizational performance. The study was anchored on two theories; the innovation diffusion theory to indicate the level of ICT integration and the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), to show how compatibility and user belief are important for integration and performance. The study used null hypotheses to test the influence of each objective on organizational performance. The study adopted a descriptive research design. The study was undertaken in five (5) selected parastatals or state-owned organizations in Nakuru municipality with a total population of 236 employees in selected departments. By use of purposive sampling, a sample size of 91 respondents was used. The study used qualitative and quantitative research methods. The study applied closed and open-ended questionnaires with a five-point Likert scale, to collect data from the respondents. The data collected was coded using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics and presented using tables. The study also adopted multiple regression and ANOVA tests to test the influence, hypotheses and relationship between e-supplier management and organizational performance respectively. E-supplier management integration was moderate (M=3.42, SD=.97). The findings inferred that e-supplier management was statistically significant in predicting the performance of parastatals at p<.05 and that 21.9% of organizational performance was influenced by e-supplier management variables. It also showed that e-information sharing influences organizational performance at 9.4%, e-tendering at 3.3%, e-payments at 2.6% and epoint of sale at 22.1%. The study also showed e-information sharing, e-tendering, epayments and e-point of sale had a weak positive correlation with organizational performance at .325, .214, .197 and .481 respectively. The study recommends parastatals full integration of e-supplier management capabilities and to work with suppliers to allow accrual of benefits that will improve overall organizational performance. The study recommends further research be done on other components of e-supplier management such as eSRM, contracts management and e-supplier selection.Murang'a University of Technolog
Environmental Commitment and Adoption of Green Practices Among Star-Rated Hotels Along the Kenyan Coast
No full textDoctor of Philosophy in Hospitality and Tourism Management, 2022The hospitality and tourism industry is one of the key economic sectors expected to take a leadership role in transforming the emerging green economy. The economic pillar of Vision 2030 in Kenya acknowledges the crucial function of natural resources. Direct promotion of these resources relate to environmental protection and efficient utilization of resources. Kenya stands to secure more incredible benefits from hospitality and tourism by 2030. Policy and strategy framework must be established to move away from intensive material and carbon approaches to delivering visitor experiences by implanting green practices. The stakeholders’ role in adopting green practices has seldom been investigated. In Kenyan hotels going green is a recent phenomenon that hotel sector management longs to adopt. Limited research studies have been undertaken to establish how environmental commitment influences the adoption of green practices in the Kenyan hotel sector. This study primarily sought to establish the effect of environmental commitment on adoption of green practices in star-rated hotels along the Kenyan Coast. To achieve this, the study sought to 1) establish current and potential green practices adopted in star-rated hotels along the Kenyan Coast, 2) determine the role of stakeholder engagement in the adoption of green practices, 3) establish the current and potential benefits of green practices adopted by star rated hotels, and 4) determine the moderating effect of environmental leadership on the relationship between environmental commitment and adoption of green practices among star-rated hotels along the Kenyan Coast. Using an embedded mixed methods design, quantitative and qualitative approaches were embraced. Sample hotels for the study were identified using stratified random selection. Stratification of management tiers for the choice of experts, general managers and heads of the section was applied. Data was obtained using semi-structured questionnaires, interview schedules and an observation checklist. Analysis of quantitative data included descriptive statistics and multiple linear regression, one sample t-test and moderated multiple regression using SPSS 21. Qualitative data were analysed thematically using NVivo 12. The results revealed a growing recognition and adoption of green practices among star-rated hotels along the Kenyan Coast (p=≤0.000≤0.05). The regression model with stakeholders’ engagement and perceived benefits was statistically significant [F (2,103) =151.736, p<.000]. The regression model explained 74.7% of the variation in the adoption of sustainable practices by the star-rated hotels in this study (R=.864, R2=.747). The effect of the stakeholders’ engagement (β =.760) and perceived benefits (β =.242) on the adoption of green practices was positive and statistically significant (p<.001 and p<.05, respectively). The regression model with the moderator (environmental leadership) explained 80.9% of the variation in the adoption of green practices by the hotels in this study (R=.900, R2=.809), demonstrating that the moderating variable accounted for an additional 6.3% of the variation, which was statistically significant (p<.001). Therefore, this study makes several recommendations. The results of this study suggest that stakeholder engagement, stakeholder perceived benefits, and the moderating effect of environmental leadership have a statistically significant effect on the adoption of sustainable practices among star-rated hotels in Coastal Kenya. In addition, this study has contributed to developing a statistical model with predictor variables that starrated hotels and capacity-building institutions can use to predict the adoption of green practices. This study recommends that star-rated hotels, in partnership with hotel associations and related capacity-building institutions, develop a standard framework for monitoring and evaluating stakeholders’ environmental expectations in adopting green practices by providing minimum performance indicators.Murang'a University of Technolog
Wagar and Motley “Archaic” Vestiges: A Postmodernist Reading of Contemporary Somali Fiction
No full textThe advent of the modernist dream resulted in the universalisation of culture, which entails deliberate effort to abandon traditional ways of life that foster difference and instead embracing national cultures to bring different communities together. Colonialism in the Horn of Africa, for instance, brought different Cushitic communities under single political entities and most of them adopted Islam to find a common ground. Other communities in East Africa had to convert to Christianity to find a universal cultural bridge. This has resulted in the assumption that most African peoples are homogeneous given that past traditions that elevated difference have been eradicated by unifying factors such as modern states and conventional religions such as Islam and Christianity. A critical reading of some literary texts, however, demonstrates that such claims are partly unfounded because there exist aspects of pre-Islamic Somali religion along with the fundamental beliefs of Islam, which bolster difference. This article is a postmodernist reading of selected contemporary Somali fiction to investigate the influence of pre-Islamic Somali religion on contemporary Somali culture. Using the ideas of Jacques Derrida and Joseph Campbell, the study demonstrates the impact of myth and the ancient traditions on migration and contemporary culture in Nadifa Mohamed’s Black Mamba Boy and Nuruddin Farah’s Secrets