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Effects of Team Building Activities as a Strategic Issue on Employee Retention: A Case Study of Safaricom Limited
No full textA Research Project Report Submitted to the Chandaria School of Business in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree of Masters in Business Administration (MBA)The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of team building activities as a strategic issue on job retention at Safaricom. This study intends to assess the Research Questions: Does Team Building Activities Foster Job Retention at Safaricom? Does the Team Building Activities Improve Performance and Productivity of Individuals? and Is Job Retention a Competitive Strategy used in Safaricom?
The population of the study constituted all 4,500 employees of Safaricom Company Limited, which has offices spread across six counties within Kenyan borders. Stratified sampling was used to pick employees from the ten existing divisions in Safaricom, after which the sample size formula was used to determine the size of the sample of 138 subjects for a cross sectional survey out of which 109 responded giving a response rate of 79%. Data analysis was done using SPSS and Excel tools to produce descriptive and correlation statistics.
The findings based on the first research question established that most of the respondents agreed that they believe lack of alignment within a team impacts the outcome of a task or a project and that teamwork is a valued aspect at Safaricom. Team building activities made the respondents feel like a ‘part of the family’ and enjoy participating in the team building activities. However, respondents were not sure whether team building activities influenced positive talk outside of the workplace (increased their commitment to the organization), results also showed that team members are held accountable for the decisions they make, and improved communication with others because of team building activities was observed. The respondents however disagreed that evaluation of the teamwork results ignored their share of efforts and that they were motivated at work because of the team building activities.
The findings based on the second research question revealed that most respondents agreed that they were motivated to set goals that will assist them in their workplace performance, whenever they do tasks individually they believe a better result would be achieved through team work , learn more about the overall company goals and objectives during a team building activity, compared with before the team building activities, their level of trust and confidence in their colleagues increased, felt that they better understand their colleagues because of team building activities whereas respondents were however not sure on whether they felt re-energized after a team building activity, team building activities was beneficial to the organization, they prefer to do their work assignments/projects individually and they felt the workplace environment is more fun to work in as a result of the team building activities.
The findings based on the third research question revealed that most of the respondents agreed that most of the respondents agreed that there is a link between the organization’s strategy and individual objectives, work is challenging, stimulating and rewarding and that the organization offers job security however respondents were uncertain whether to recommend Safaricom to family and friends as a great place to work, Safaricom senior leadership are good role models and value employees’ unique talents and knowledge, and changes that are likely to affect them or how they do their work is communicated clearly.
The study recommended Safaricom to reevaluate its team building strategy and motivate employees to work because of the team building activities, create a good alignment between department hence encourage team work. Ensure that team members are held accountable for the decisions they make and make employees feel more committed in the organization, offer team building activities that will motivate employees work together and exchange ideas, implement and resolve solutions to problems in the workplace and create a work place environment that is fun to work at hence creating job satisfaction and retaining talented employees. Communicate clearly changes that are likely to affect employees or how they do their work, develop job fulfillment and growth strategies that will motivate employees to increase their performance hence achieve a competitive advantage and ensure that employees understand the company’s mission and vision. For further studies, it is recommended that a similar study should be done to reveal other effects of team building activities
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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