Browsing by Author "Minja, David M."

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    Influence of Corporate Governance Compliance Programs and Performance of State Corporations in Kenya: The Case of National Social Security Fund (NSSF)
    (International Academic Journals, 2018) Abdi, Yussuf Nunow; Minja, David M.
    State corporations are reluctant to provide concrete incentives for implementation of corporate compliance programmes. Currently, compliance is achieved by hiring expensive auditors who typically use a heuristic approach to select and investigate audit trails to show evidence about compliance. In addition to the impact on the organization’s budget, compliance checking with this approach incurs a large overhead in terms of time consumed to check for compliance. The objectives of the study were to determine the influence of risk management processes, internal audit and controls processes, employees’ education on compliance and communication, leadership and oversight on performance of state firms in African nation. The study was anchored on agency theory, neutral theory and conjointly the institutional theory. The study adopted a descriptive analysis technique. The target population of this study was 142 management workers operating in National social insurance Fund (NSSF). The study further focused on the best, middle and low-level management staffs WHO unit directly handling the day to day management of the National social insurance Fund (NSSF) since they are those acquainted with the subject matter of the study. The study used stratified sampling technique in arising with a sample size of 104 respondents’ victimization Nassiuma (2012) formula. From each stratum, simple random sampling was used to opt for the respondents for the questionnaires. The primary data was collected using questionnaires which were pretested before administration. The quantitative data throughout this analysis was analyzed by descriptive statistics using SPSS. version twenty-one. Content analysis was used in analysis of qualitative data and results given in prose form. To bring out the quantitative meaning of the data, relationships and predictions among variables were determined using correlations and regression techniques. Data was presented using frequency tables. The study found that risk management processes, employees’ education on compliance and communication, internal audit and controls processes as well as leadership and oversight greatly affect the state corporation’s performance. The study concluded that leadership and oversight had the greatest on the performance of state corporations in Kenya followed by internal audit and controls processes then employees’ education or training and communication while risk management processes had the least effect on the performance of state corporations in Kenya. The study recommends that risk management processes strategies employed by state corporations should support strong corporate governance, that state corporations should adopt the strategic training and development approach with its key principles of long term, and organization wide view instead of the current tactical approach and that risk based internal audit should be enhanced so as to improve performance in state corporations in Kenya.
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    Rethinking ethical leadership in Kenya: adopting a new paradigm
    (2017) Minja, David M.
    The purpose of this paper is to encourage students and scholars in the field of ethics to re-think and develop new approaches concerning the actual practice of ethical leadership. While many authors have written on the subject of leadership values and ethics, this paper examines, in particular, the works of Aristotle, James Burns, James O’Toole, John Kotter, Edgar Schein, as well as other notable scholars. Additionally, it attempts to add to the body of knowledge an ethical leadership approach that could assist those in positions of power and influence to more effectively link theory to practice. The author argues that a leader who espouses and upholds values in an organisation is not sufficient to transform a corrupt system. This individual must indeed directly model the desired behaviour, create a sense of urgency within the entity to develop and embrace a new principled culture, and form a team of like-minded co-leaders and followers. The paper postulates that the application of the Theory of Mechanical Advantage would help usher an organisation into a state in which a firm foundation for ethical leadership could be established. This paper finally formulates what the author refers to as the Law of Pseudo- Revolutionary Change which states that change that does not directly impact the core of the organisational culture never effects real and fundamental change within that entity.