Transformational Leadership and Performance in the Nyandarua County Assembly, Kenya
| dc.contributor.author | Wanderi, Leah Wanjiru | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-07-30T13:31:15Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-07-30T13:31:15Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025-05 | |
| dc.description | A Research Project Submitted to the School of Business, Economics and Tourism in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of Degree of Master of Business Administration (Strategic Management Option) of Kenyatta University, May 2025. Supervisor Videlis Njeri Njuguna | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/30940 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Kenyatta University | |
| dc.title | Transformational Leadership and Performance in the Nyandarua County Assembly, Kenya | |
| dc.type | Thesis |