Influence of Human Capital Management Practices on the Performance of Prisons in Kenya
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Date
2023-08Author
Kinoti, Lucy Kathure
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Finding, hiring, engaging, developing, and attracting the best people to help a business
achieve its objectives and ambitions is the purview of human capital management.
The purpose of the survey is to assess the effect of human resource management policy
on the performance of the disciplined services. The study's particular goals were to
determine the flexible's effects working arrangement, training, reward programs and
occupational health on performance of prisons. The study was anchored on happiness
and success theory, commitment-trust theory, principle agent theory and the border
theory. The study used a descriptive survey approach, and the population was made
up of 104 Kenyan prison administrators. The study adopt census for the cluster was
convenient for the method where the researcher intended to collect data from all the
unit of analysis who were the OIC of the correctional facilities. Self-administered
questionnaires with Likert-scale items were used to obtain primary data for the
research. Construct validity was utilized to analyze the questionnaire's dependability,
test-retest and Cronbach's alpha were used to evaluate the instrument's reliability, and
content validity was evaluated via supervisor evaluations of the questions. Data was
checked to make sure it didn't go against the expectations of the regression. The
study's findings showed that training, flexible working hours, and occupational health
all had a statistically significant impact on employee performance (p 0.05, p 0.05, and
p 0.05, respectively). The Kenya prison's performance was unaffected by the incentive
scheme statistically (p>0.05). The data was analyzed using both descriptive and
inferential statistics. Results were analyzed using a multiple linear regression model
to test hypotheses and draw conclusions. Analyzed data was presented by use of
frequency tables. Prison performance in Kenya was shown to be significantly affected
by factors like workplace flexibility, training, and emphasis on occupational health. It
turns out the points you earn don't mean anything. Based on the findings of the study,
jail administration is urged to advocate for higher pay for all performance members.
Kenya's prison system has to invest more in its staff's education so that it may reap
the advantages of having knowledgeable and skilled guards. The administration of
Kenya's prisons should also continue providing inmates with the safety measures they
need. With this in place, they can rest certain that their staff is protected at all times
while serving the public
Publisher
KeMU