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Factors Affecting Strategy Implementation in Kenyan Rugby: A Study of the Kenya Rugby Union
No full textA Research Project Report Submitted to the Chandaria School of Business in Partial Fulfilment of the Degree of Masters in Business Administration (MBA)The purpose of the study was to investigate the factors affecting strategy implementation with a focus on the Kenya Rugby Union. The study aimed at determining the impact of human resource factors on strategy implementation, examining the effect that cultural influences have on strategy implementation and establish the extent to which the influence of organization structure has on strategy implementation.
The study adopted a descriptive research design to determine the factors affecting strategy implementation in Kenya Rugby Union. The descriptive research design helped in looking at the strength of relationship between human resource factors, cultural factors and organizational structures and strategy implementation. Questionnaires were used to collect relevant information from respondents for this study. The study focused on 60 employees at Kenya Rugby Union. A random sampling technique was used to determine the sample size (30 respondents) and collect data from the sample. In data analysis and presentation, the study adopted a descriptive and inferential statistics. Correlation analysis, regression analysis, cross-tabulation and frequencies were obtained and presented in tables.
The study analyzed and determined the significant human resource factors that influence strategy implementation process. From the study, it was found that employees are evaluated on their current and past performance standards with the view to improve their performance. The skills required by employees are identified through performance appraisal and action taken by the management to instil the skills to their employees through training. The study found that the organization is able to select employees who are knowledgeable for the tasks assigned hence new strategies formulated in the organization are communicated to them. After a training and development program, there is an opportunity to put into practice what employees are trained during strategy implementation process.
The study established the effects of cultural influences on strategy implementation at Kenya Rugby Union. The study found that Kenya Rugby Union is open to continual redefinition as a result of changes in the external environment. The study revealed that the organization leaders and employees are able to reach an agreement on critical issues and resolve their differences diplomatically. This showed that leaders in the organization are leading by example through guiding the employees to attainment of the organization’s goals. The organization is open to cultural diversity that provides views in strategy formulation and implementation. The study shows that at Kenya Rugby Union, employees are empowered and involved in the strategy implementation process. Employees work to eliminate lack of information flowing between groups and promote actions that are in best interest of the organization.
The study determined that organization structure influence strategy implementation. The study found that the management ensures that adequate resources are available to pursue organization strategy. At Kenya Rugby Union, there is open communication between employees and the management at the organization hence employees have the information they need to do their work. The management coordinates activities through the strategy implementation process. Through this process employees are informed of changes and also encouraged and motivated towards strategy implementation in the organization. The study found that the organization takes time to respond and adapt to new changes hence the organization is affected by the unexpected and unpredictable changes. As a result of changes in the management, the organizational structure including departments division of labour is affected.
The study concludes that human resource factors, cultural factors and organizational structure influence strategy implementation. Employees are evaluated on their current and past performance standards with the view to improve their performance. Through the performance appraisal, the skills required by employees are identified and action taken by the management to instilling the skills to their employees through training. The study concludes that Kenya Rugby Union is open to continual redefinition as a result of changes in the external environment. The study recommends the executive and management of Kenya Rugby Union to evaluate the current and past performance standards of employees with the view to improve their performance. The study also recommends the leaders in the organization to lead by example through guiding the employees to attainment of the organization's goals. The organization is recommended by the study to effectively allocate resources such as finances and personnel adequately towards strategy implementation
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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