Browsing by Author "Wanderi, Leah Wanjiru"

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    Individualized Consideration’s Effect on Improvement of Performance at the Nyandarua County Assembly in Kenya
    (Reviewed Journal International of Business Management, 2025-01) Wanderi, Leah Wanjiru; Njuguna, Videlis Njeri
    The county assemblies in Kenya are facing challenges in successfully executing the mandate including legislation, oversight the senior officials and representation of the general public. For Nyandarua county assembly, the infighting, inability to maintain the leadership positions, and suspension of some leaders; this has caused delays in policy and legislature formulation, inability to call for public hearings and participation in representing the views of the residents and delays in submitting reports. These implied decline in performance outcomes, and hence the need to adopt transformational leadership with its dimension of considering the individual employees. This paper focused on individualized consideration and its effect on performance at the Nyandarua county assembly. The paper was informed by transformational leadership theory and balanced scorecard model. Through use of descriptive research design, the study targeted top, middle and low-level management teams who took part in the study by filling the semi-structured questionnaire. There were 73 responses from a possible 81 distributed questionnaire, making a response rate of 90.1%. The findings show that 63.4% change in performance was linked to effect of individualized consideration. Additionally, the relationship between individualized consideration and performance was significant and positive since r = 0.596. The betacoefficient revealed that individualized consideration influenced the performance at the Nyandarua County Assembly, based on β=0.405, t = 1.302, and 0.000 < 0.05.Therefore, concluding that individualized consideration was effective in improving performance at the county assembly of Nyandarua. The paper recommends the assembly follows the contents of chapter six on leadership and integrity when selecting/electing its leaders. The leaders must take care of the needs, aspirations and interests of the subordinates; this will help create a good work environment and uplift performance outcomes.
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    Transformational Leadership and Performance in the Nyandarua County Assembly, Kenya
    (Kenyatta University, 2025-05) Wanderi, Leah Wanjiru
    The county assemblies have had problems in executing its mandate of oversight, legislation and representation. This is highlighted by the delays and postponement in formulating legislations, corruption and misuse of resources linked to inability to effectively oversee county executive members and comprehensively representing the general public interests. When it comes to the Nyandarua county assembly, delays in policy and legislature formulation and late submission of reports were linked to absence of county clerk and suspension of some members due to political intrigues; and hence the demand for effective leadership. The main focus was on transformational leadership influence on performance in Nyandarua County Assembly, Kenya. Specifically, the focus was on individualized consideration, inspirational motivation, idealized influence and intellectual stimulation. The anchoring theories were transformational leadership and balanced scorecard model. There was use of descriptive design and the population targeted were employees at the top, middle and lower management level at Nyandarua County Assembly. This also included both the elected and nominated members of the county assembly. The target population included 81 respondents such that census sampling was adopted. There was use of semi-structured questionnaires that were first pilot tested and confirmed to be valid. An aggregate Cronbach alpha values of 0.796 which was above the 0.7 standard, affirmed the reliability of the instrument. The study’s response rate was 90.1% since 73 respondents filled and returned the semi-structured questionnaires. Findings showed the respondents confirming that transformational leadership and its components improved performance in the Nyandarua County Assembly. The study also found positive and significant association between individualized consideration at r =0.596, inspirational motivation at r =0.704, idealized influence at r =0.589 and intellectual stimulation at r =0.718) and assembly performance. The study findings also revealed that in general transformational leadership led to 63.4% change in performance in the Nyandarua county assembly. The results indicated intellectual stimulation at β =0.496 had the largest predictor effect to Nyandarua County Assembly performance, followed by individualized consideration whose beta results were β =0.405, then inspirational motivation at β =0.325 and the least effect was from idealized influence at β =0.199. The conclusions were such that all the four components of transformational leadership led to improved performance in the county assembly of Nyandarua. The study recommendation training of leaders on being effective in handling leadership roles and having structure and practices that encourage adherence to ethical conduct. Through autonomy, creativity and brain-storming sessions, the study suggests its application will improve performance. This study is of benefit as it highlights how transformational leadership approach can be adopted for improved performance. Other county assemblies, government organizations and private entities can learn how to implement transformational leadership approaches in executing strategies for attaining the set goal and mandate leading to better performance outcomes.