Influence of Goal Setting and Sustainable Firm Performance of Commercial Banks in Eldoret, Kenya 1. Introduction The financial statement of the company provides an overview of the sustainability of company performance. A successful business should improve value disclosure control (Herly & Sisnuhadi, 2011). Sustainable company performance may reflect domestic or external production. External expansion is the leading cause of corporate growth (Selvam et al., 2014). The employee's future growth prospects can emerge because of factors outside of managerial decision-making, and this can be demonstrated by the size of the business (Shan & McIver, 2011). More studies have shown that workforce growth is the major contributor to a policy of loyalty to employees that affects organizational quality (Abu & Som, 2013). Employees want to work for companies and positions that make them feel highly valued and are keen to improve and progress continuously, so both employees and workers appreciate sustainable firm performance. According to a report by Towers Watson (2014) organisations, however, some companies fail to deliver, and some do not know whether the programs work due to the lack of employee commitment policy. The study shows that organizations are working. The government of Kenya commits to develop its employees and encourage them to train and upgrade their knowledge, skills, attitudes and competencies for performance improvement, effective service delivery and sustainable firm performance. It encourages public servants to undertake firm performance management programs and requires all servants to be eligible for training for at least five days of training in a year and be promoted after 3 years (HRM policies, 2016). This is extended to all commercial banks in Kenya. According to the Banking Amendment act of Kenya (2009) commercial banks are financial institutions that accept deposits from customers and give loans and provide other services such as mobile banking, internet banking, and Automated Teller Machine services among others to the public. There are officially 43 approved commercial banks and a mortgage lending agency, according to the Central Bank of Kenya (2016). Of the 43 banks, 40 belonged to a private sector, while the government for Kenya held a majority of three institutions. Of the 40 private banks, 25 were owned locally and 15 were owned by foreigners. Banks are using performance evaluation for the growth of their organisation, the productivity of their workers, the rise in compensation and allocation of bonuses, the tool used by banks for evaluating their success is clear goals, the comparable chart scale methodology (CBK, 2016).

E-commerce had gradually affected the operations of the business and companies especially in the banking sector. The objective of study was to establish the effect of mobile banking on financial performance of commercial banks in Eldoret town. The study adopted innovation diffusion theory. The study adopts descriptive research design. The studies target 32 operational managers of commercial banks in Eldoret. The study used questionnaires. The data obtained was coded, organized and analyzed using SPSS. The inferential statistics involved the use of correlation analysis. Data was presented in form of tables. The mobile banking had significant influence (r =0. 781) on financial performance. The mobile banking had enhanced easy borrowing of loans using the phones hence increasing loaning in the banks and improved financial performance. The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) should come up strategies decisions which monitor mobile banking transactions in order to reduce fraud and improve mobile banking in commercial banks.

Background: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global threat and is thought to be acute in low-and middle-income country (LMIC) settings, including in Kenya, but there is limited unbiased surveillance that can provide reliable estimates of its burden. Current efforts to build capacity for microbiology testing in Kenya are unlikely to result in systematic routine microbiological testing in the near term. Therefore, there is little prospect for microbiological support to inform clinical diagnoses nor for indicating the burden of AMR and for guiding empirical choice of antibiotics. Objective: We aim to build on an existing collaboration, the Clinical Information Network (CIN), to pilot microbiological surveillance using a ‘hub-and-spoke’ model where selected hospitals are linked to high quality microbiology research laboratories. Methods: Children admitted to paediatric wards of 12 participating hospitals will have a sample taken for blood culture at admission before antibiotics are started. Indication for blood culture will be a clinician’s prescription of antibiotics. Samples will then be transported daily to the research laboratories for culture and antibiotic susceptibility testing and results relayed back to clinicians for patient management. The surveillance will take place for 6 months in each hospital. Separately, we shall conduct semi-structured interviews with frontline health workers to explore the feasibility and utility of this approach. We will also seek to understand how the availability of microbiology results might inform antibiotic stewardship, and as an interim step to the development of better national or regional laboratories linked to routine surveillance. Conclusions: If feasible, this approach is less costly and periodic ‘hub-and-spoke’ surveillance can be used to track AMR trends and to broadly guide empirical antibiotic guidance meaning it is likely to be more sustainable than establishing functional microbiological facilities in each hospital in a LMIC setting.

Influence of Loan Lending and Economic Development of Youth in Kesses Constituency, Kenya 1. Introduction Youth economic development involves bringing youth and a community's natural resources into line with both global and regional markets, and striving for new jobs for youth and society (Ferraro 2009). Furthermore, young people are involved in community and/or community service activities that provide income (Wallerstein, 2012). In particular, youth economic development refers to young people's involvement in community services and/or income-generating community activities (Wallerstein 2012). Youth economic development encompasses improvements in the material welfare particularly for young people with lowest income, elimination of mass poverty with its analphabetism, disease and premature death, changes in input and output composition, which usually include changes in the fundamental manufacturing structure away from farming operations into industrial activity, organization setting. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has a quickly increasing youth population of 18 years, but in some nations as Niger and Chad it is only 15 years old.In 2013, the economic development of young people in Sub-Saharan Africa was 2 times higher than in other ages (World Bank, 2013). The US has accomplished the greatest financial output over the last ten years through the promotion and promotion of youth operations, according to Kuratko and Hodgetts (2014). Bruns (2007) says that the credit quantity provided in developed countries was important because it was able to determine the nature and size of the company. Many governments have tried to assist ministries of youth, youth policies and youth programmes. It seems, in reality, that the youth are the future of the growth of their country (Yunus, 2008).First of all, Zimbabwe has a JDF structured according to the model of the private-public partnership. In 2009, the Swaziland government also created the National Youth Policy and set up an enterprise youth fund to tackle the low economic growth of young people (Brixiova et al., 2014). Many times, young individuals lacked the necessary support facilities to turn their start-ups into successful SMEs (World Bank, 2013). This was because many legislative bodies were established in Kenya that had interfered with the efficient provision of young financial services by many microfinance organizations.

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