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dc.contributor.authorTUMWET, EMILY
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-30T07:38:18Z
dc.date.available2022-03-30T07:38:18Z
dc.date.issued2013-09
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir.kabarak.ac.ke/handle/123456789/831
dc.description.abstractHuman resource management is the strategic approach to the management of an organizations most vital asset, the people who contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organization. Employee incentives constitute some of the high performance work practices used by organizations to improve knowledge, skills, and abilities of current and potential employees, increase motivation and enhance retention of quality employees. Need for-empirical study, to determine the influence of these incentives on employee performance. The study examined the relationship between specific employee incentives to employee performance in private Universities in Kenya. The study population was all the employees of Kabarak University, -a census study was carried out .The study involved use of structured questionnaire. The analysis of the collected data was done by use of Mann Whitney U test, factor analysis and Chi-square, and presented using descriptive statistics in frequency tables and charts. Financial and nonfinancial incentives are applied to a great extent to motivate the employees. Financial incentives that are perceived to have significant influence on employee motivation include: salary, insurance financing, retirement benefits, performance based rewards,etc. Among the non-financial incentives with significant influence on performance were: creativity at work, organizational goals, challenging tasks, opportunity for personal development, autonomy and responsibility, teamwork, job security, professionally stimulating environment, opportunity to set performance goals, predictable work life, opportunity to lead, training and development and flexible policies. Recommendations include; the need for top management of organizations to design effective incentive schemes that comprise a mix of financial and non-financial incentives, with non-financial incentives being key, supplemented by financial incentives. The findings are vital for policy makers in human capital intensive organizations such as universities and managers in general.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherKabarak Universityen_US
dc.subjectEFFECTS OF EMPLOYEE INCENTIVESen_US
dc.subjectEMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE IN PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES IN KENYAen_US
dc.titleEFFECTS OF EMPLOYEE INCENTIVES ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE IN PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES IN KENYA: A CASE OF KABARAK UNIVERSITYen_US
dc.typePresentationen_US


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