Employee development and organizational performance of Unilever Tea Kenya ltd in Kericho County
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Date
2017
Authors
Cherono, Joan
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Kenyatta University
Abstract
The study was prompted by the fact that performance is a challenge to many
organizations. It is hard to achieve the desired levels of performance hence the need to
use human resource tools such as employee development. The study aimed at
examining the effect of employee Development on performance with specific
reference to the Unilever Kenya limited in Kericho County. The study was driven by
the following objectives; to evaluate the influence of training, the effect of mentoring,
the influence of participation and the influence of delegation on the organization
performance. The findings are to be of great help to: tea firms in formulating
employee development policies; it helps employees in the tea sector in their career
development and human resource practitioners in formulating human resource
development programs. It is to be of great importance to the researchers. The main
theory the study used was the Human Relations theory. The study also used Human
Resource Management and Resource based view Theories. The research design that
was adopted was descriptive research design. The target population was 696
employees of Unilever Tea Kenya limited. Stratified and simple random sampling
techniques were used. To obtain primary data questionnaires with both structured and
unstructured questions were used. Descriptive and inferential statistics were both used
in analysis. The findings indicated that there exist significant effect between employee
development and the performance of the organization. Training and mentorship were
significant in contributing to the performance and participation and delegation were
not significant in affecting the performance. Productivity, cost, innovation and task
completion level play significant importance in performance of the organization. In
conclusion the performance of the organization is affected by employee development.
The study recommends that the organization should input more on training and
mentorship in employee development in order to improve overall organization
performance.
Description
A research project submitted to the school of business in partial fulfillment of the requirement for degree in master of business administration (human resource management) of Kenyatta University November, 2017