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    Employees' training and organizational performance of Chinese companies in Nairobi City County Kenya
    (Kenyatta University, 2025-11) Yudan, Jin
    Chinese companies enter the Kenyan market as part of their international business strategy of expanding into new markets. These businesses engage in exporting product and services from China to the Kenyan market as well as manufacturing within the country. The Human Resources Management function has key responsibilities to fulfill in the performance of foreign based companies in their overseas markets especially through the design of training programs. The training programs can focus on business, the cultures in the foreign markets, technological skills, and languages. Chinese companies operating in Kenya have attracted negative perception on their commitment towards development of local personnel; knowledge transfer and capacity building for management succession There have been little empirical efforts to document training practices by Chinese companies and its effect on their organizational performance. The research examined the effect of employees training on the performance of Chinese companies in Nairobi City County. The three objectives that guides the study in this current survey were as follows: to investigate the effect of employees' technical skills training, language skills training, and apprenticeship training on the organization performance of Chinese enterprises in Nairobi city county. Arguments were obtained from five theories to support the research variables: human capital theory, Best HRM Practice Model, Theory of Reinforcement, Theory of Learning Types, and Adult Learning Theory. A pilot study was conducted using 12 companies to refine the research instrument and procedures. Validity and reliability were tested on the tools to confirm that they measured the intended construct consistently and accurately. The study employed an across-sectional descriptive design, on a population of 127 Chinese companies registered to do business in Nairobi, Kenya. A representative sample of 65 businesses were issued questionnaires to participate in the study from whom the respondents were drawn. Data was statistically processed and used to answer the research questions using descriptive and inferential analysis and cross tabulations were used to explain the data. To assess the predictive capabilities of the independent variables, regression analysis was conducted, revealing that technical skill training had a positive effect while language skill training had no significant effect on organization performance, but apprenticeship skill training showed a strong positive effect on performance of the companies. Informed from the findings the researcher proposes that Chinese Companies ought to improve and tailor training programs to address specific skill gaps and include practical activities, evaluate the language training needs to fit and accommodate communication at work, promote and formalize apprenticeship programs, establish partnerships with vocational institutions, and cultivate a culture of knowledge sharing by fostering mentorship initiatives