Browsing by Author "Lodiaga, Mildred"

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    Effect of Psycho-Social Shift Schedules on Family Life Among Kenya Airways Crew in Nairobi City County, Kenya
    (Journal of Sociology, Psychology & Religious Studies, 2025-08) Mwazame, Evah Karimi; Lodiaga, Mildred; Wamue-Ngare, Grace
    Kenya Airways flight crew shift work is perceived to profoundly impact the emotional, economic, social and temporal patterns of family life. The study investigated the effect of psycho-social shift schedules on family life among Kenya Airways crew in Nairobi City County, Kenya. The research was underpinned on the Social Exchange Theory while a case study design was employed. The research targeted a population consisting of 1085 employees from Kenya Airways operating in Embakasi. Both stratified and simple random sampling methods were used to choose 217 respondents for the research. Quantitative data was collected using questionnaires while qualitative data was gathered via interview guides. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences was used to analyze quantitative data through descriptive statistics and regression analysis, whereas thematic analysis aided in the analysis of qualitative data. The research findings revealed that there existed a positive and significant correlation between shift schedules and family life of Kenya Airways crew as indicated by a beta coefficient of 0.668 (p < 0.05). The study concluded that psycho-social shift schedules significantly influenced family life among crew members, with shift pattern demands interfering with familytime, frequency of shifts preventing attendance to family functions, and duration of shifts creating gaps between crew members and their children. The findings demonstrated that irregular work patterns, psychological stress from shift work, and social disruption from unpredictable schedules directly impact crew members' family relationships, spousal satisfaction, parent-child interactions, and overall family wellbeing. The study recommends that Kenya Airways should implement flexible shift scheduling practices that accommodate family responsibilities, optimize shift duration to prevent extended working hours that lead to family separation, and establish more predictable shift patterns that allow crew members to maintain consistent roles within their households while reducing work-family conflicts
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    Socio-Economic Determinants of Men and Women’s Participation in Fisheries Value Chain in Nairobi City County, Kenya
    (Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research, 2017) Kizito, Paul; Kimani, Elishiba; Lodiaga, Mildred
    The government of Kenya has put in place an integrated package of service to reduce gender disparities through credit facilitation, which includes business skills, enhanced and increased access to the viable markets among others. It is in this respect that this paper sought to establish the status of men and women in the entrepreneurial fisheries activities in Kenya; with an objective to establish the social-economic determinants of men and women’s participation in fisheries value chain in Nairobi City County. The social structural theory developed by Connell (1987) based on patriarchal system was used to explain the subordination of women in the fisheries value chain in Nairobi City County. The study findings showed that men were prominent in economically high end City market and South C market while women were more in the marginal Kariobangi market. The findings revealed that Gender, age, formal education, marital status and income per month were the socio- economic determinants affecting the participation of men and women in the fisheries value chain in Nairobi City County. Consequently the chi-square test result showed a significant association between gender and large scale (p-value=0.001); age and aquaculture/fish harvesting (p-value=0.001); marital status and aquaculture/fish harvesting (p-value 0.036); education and transport (0.036); and income per month and distributor (p-value=0.006); and large scale (p-value=0,004).
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    Ventures Within Fisheries Value Chain that Men and Women Participate in Nairobi City County, Kenya
    (Society for Science and Education, 2017-04-25) Kizito, Paul; Kimani, Elishiba; Lodiaga, Mildred
    The government of Kenya has put in place an integrated package of service to reduce gender disparities through credit facilitation, which includes business skills, enhanced and increased access to the viable markets among others. It is in this respect that this study sought to establish the status of men and women in the entrepreneurial fisheries activities in Kenya; with an objective to establish various ventures within fisheries value chain that men and women participate. The social structural theory developed by Connell (1987) based on patriarchal system and social mechanisms in place to reinforce and sustain the ideology. The theory provides a substantive justification of women’s subordination in the fisheries value chain. The study findings showed that men were prominent in economically high end City market and South C market while women were more in the marginal Kariobangi market. The findings revealed that men had controlled the high-end value chains namely; aquaculture/fish harvesting, transportation, distribution, middle trade, and large scale while women were more focused on the lower end value chain namely; grading/sorting/gleaning and market sellers.