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Influence of Human Resource Practices on Employee Commitment in Organizations in Kenya: A Case of Nene Solutions Limited
No full textA Research Project 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 the study was to assess the influence of human resource practices on employee commitment at Nene Solutions Limited. The study was guided by three research questions which assessed: the extent to which recruitment and selection influence employee commitment at Nene Solutions Limited, the extent to which compensation influence employee commitment at Nene Solutions Limited, and the extent to which training and development influence employee commitment at Nene solutions Limited.
The research designed adopted for the study was descriptive research design. Descriptive design main aim is to identify and explain the associations that may occur between variables. The study targeted employees at Nene solutions Limited who are 34 in number. To attain the most convenient sample size, the study used a census approach first because the sample size was small, and also to ensure reliability and accuracy as there was no generalisation to be done. The researcher targeted 100% of the population hence 34 responses. The study further used inferential as well as descriptive statistics for analysis of the collected data. Presentation of the findings was done by use of tables, pie-charts, and graphs.
It was found from the first objective that majority of the respondents believed that the selection process of employees in an organisation influence commitment. To begin with, selection of employees based on merit occurred to be a key factor in enhancing commitment in the organisation. The second factor that mainly influenced commitment was selection of the right candidate for the right job with more than half of the employees’ agreeing with this factor. Again, the respondents believed that recruitment was influenced by them being recruited internally. The other factors of recruitment such as internet recruitment and third party recruitment as well as the time the company took to recruit new staff did not prove to be factors that would influence commitment.
An analysis done on the second objective established that the employees were more inclined to non-monetary form of compensation to influence their commitment as opposed to monetary form such as salary and bonuses. Majority of the respondents believed that promotion influenced their commitment much more than bonuses and incentives did. The employees further confirmed that when management recognised and praised their success
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on a job performed well, they became more committed to the organisation. The study did not find any relationship between benefits and salaries the employees earned and employee commitment. The study found that employees were not willing to leave the organisation on the basis of a better salary offer in another organisation.
On the third objective, the study found a positive relationship between training and development and employee commitment. Respondents were in agreement that the training they had received as well as the skills and knowledge they gained during training sessions had enhanced their commitment to the organisation. The management support on developing employees was also an influencer to employee commitment. Majority of the respondents felt that their relationships with colleagues were built during training and opportunities to try out what they had learnt during the training sessions influenced their commitment to the organisation.
The study concludes that the most influencing factors in employee commitment are training and development as well as selection. Compensation by a large extent was found to be influencer in non-monetary form, such as promotion, recognition, praise as well as incentives such as paid for holidays. Initiatives on factors such as having effective training sessions where training needs are identified and addressed and management involvement in training sessions would influence commitment in the organisation.
The study recommends that as far as human resource practices is concerned, training and development should be at the forefront to enhance commitment in an organisation. The study also recommends internal selection for purposes of commitment. With regards to compensation, it is recommended that the organisation focuses on promotion and recognition as well as career growth of the employees to ensure commitment within the organisation. Further research is also recommended to establish commitment of employees for locations that were not included in the study as well as different cultures with different work ethics and values. There is also need to conduct such a study with firms that are not in the same industry, including other practices in human resource management that are not limited to recruitment and selection, compensation and training and developmen
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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