The main objective of the study is to establish the role of performance management in achieving organizational effectiveness and efficiency with a keen specific focus of evaluating the following: determine the impact of employee job performance definition towards achievement of organizational effectiveness and efficiency; evaluate how employee performance appraisal contributes to the achievement of organizational effectiveness and efficiency; assess the contribution of employees training on achieving organizational effectiveness and efficiency; and analyze how employee participation influences the achievement of organizational effectiveness and efficiency. Performance Management is defined as a continuous process of identifying, measuring, and developing performance in organizations by…
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The problem facing the public procurement in Lesotho today is ineffective and inefficient procurement system that lacks transparency. The lack of transparency becomes a habitat for acts of corruption. The wider community of people living in Lesotho are negatively impacted by this phenomenon because of poor quality of goods and services. This study proposes to introduce an independent all-time procurement adjudication system that will monitor all the procurement processes to improve transparency, efficiency and deter acts of corruption. The study was founded on the three theoretical frameworks of principal-agent theory, system-based theory and stakeholder theory. A qualitative inductive phenomenological design…
The COVID-19 pandemic is arguably the most disruptive occurrence that has threatened to destabilise almost all aspects of civilisation as we know it today. Its impact on education, particularly international education, has been profound. It is imperative that the world benefits from lessons learned in handling the pandemic, to inform the recovery of the international education sector, and to guide policies and measures to help the sector survive and thrive through similar crises in the future. This study employs the qualitative method to study how international education leaders managed the COVID-19 pandemic. The Qualitative method is favoured because…
In line with Peter Drucker’s view, knowledge has emerged as a key economic resource as well as the principal and preponderant source of competitive advantages. This study has the objective of exploring the capability of the existing knowledge management (KM) and organisational learning (OL) practices of the Gambia banking sector along with evaluating its required KM and OL practices towards achieving industrial innovative and sustainable competitive advantages. The three theories that dominated this study include the tacit and explicit knowledge, the community of practices, and the knowledge workers’ theories. This study adopted mixed methods approach and…
The triangulation of the mixed-method survey study assessed the impact of fiscal and monetary policies on the financial performance of universal banks in Ghana and their effect on the economy, using Ecobank Ghana as a case study. The effective and efficient implementation of fiscal and monetary policy tools has become a critical challenge facing the nation’s economy in influencing the macroeconomic variables and the inefficient operation of the banking industry. The study adopted a concurrent, deductive, explanatory, and case study strategy based on a cross-sectional study using primary sources of questionnaire and secondary sources of document analysis. The…
This study investigated the influence of principals’ management styles on teachers’ job performance in private secondary schools in the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria. Four research questions were proposed to carefully guide the study. The descriptive survey was the research designed adopted for this study and a sample of five hundred and fifty-six (556) educators were selected from a population of five thousand, five hundred and sixty (5560) educators. Out of the population, 5421 were teachers and 139 were school principals. Out of the 556 sample size, 542 were teachers while 14 were school principals. Desktop review was conducted to…