Evaluation of process performance in companies operating in Slovakia

The Kenya banking industry is highly competitive and dynamic sector owing to globalization, advancement of technology, deregulation of financial services and privatization of banks that were initially public. The overall goal for the banks is to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. This, however, is a challenge because banks' products and services are homogenous. The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of CSR resources on competitive advantage in commercial banks in Kenya and to establish the influence of bank size in the relationship between CSR resources and competitive advantage in commercial banks in Kenya. The study results should assists managers in the commercial banks to strike a balance in strategic corporate social responsibility resources. A descriptive cross-sectional survey was used to collect data. The target population was 305 branches within Nairobi County, a sample size of 170 branch managers and community champions were randomly selected. Inferential statistics was used in this study. The findings showed that resources are sufficiently supplied in commercial banks in Kenya and that bank size had a moderating effect on CSR resources

Section: Competitive Advantagementioning

confidence: 99%

Influence of Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility Resources on Competitive Advantage in Commercial Banks in Kenya

MUTISYA

2018

“…Thus organizations need strategy in order to ensure that resources are allocated in the most effective way. This is particularly important when it comes to major resource allocation decisions (Papulova & Papulova, 2006). Thus the purpose of the strategy is to set the direction of the organization and the consistency of the effort.…”

Section: Figure 1: Conceptual Framework Organizational Strategymentioning

confidence: 99%

Influence of Organizational Strategy on to Environmental Scanning of Organizations in Manufacturing Sector

Wambua

2016

In today's business environment, competition is order of the day. Any business that is not aware of its environment is bound to run into some crises that will definitely arise from the increasing complexity of the environment in which such business operates. Environmental scanning is the tool used in analysis of the environment and its effectiveness depends on some underlying factors.The purpose of this study was to investigate some of these factors affecting the environmental scanning of organization using Kenya Breweries Limited as a case study. The research problem was studied through the use of a case study research design. The target population of this study was the staff working at Kenya Breweries Limited. A sample of staff drawn from the population of 250 management staff comprising of the top, middle and low level management ranks. Using stratified sampling techniques a sample of 75 respondents was drawn. Primary data was collected through the use of questionnaires. A pilot study was undertaken on eight to test the reliability and validity of the questionnaire. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistical tools and inferential statistical tools were used to determine the relationships between the various variables.From the findings the independent factors under study greatly affected the environmental scanning activity accounting for 87.5 % of variation of environmental scanning. The results of the ANOVA test showed that the independent variables are important in predicting Environment Scanning.

“…Consequently, organizations are expected to exploit their strategic abilities, adapt and seek improvements in every area of the business, building on awareness and understanding of current strategies to survive and prosper. They must be able to swiftly act in response to opportunities and threats (Papulova & Papulova, 2006). This turbulence has made several firms come to rely on alliances as strategic necessities for sustaining competitive advantage and creating customers value (Dyer, 2002).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Operations Sensitivity and Strategic Alliance Success in Nigerian Manufacturing Companies Port Harcourt

EJEKWU,

ZEB-OBIPI (Ph.D),

PRINCE

2020

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between operations sensitivity and strategic alliance success in manufacturing companies in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The research design adopted in this study was the cross-sectional survey design. The data used were obtained from both primary and secondary sources. The primary source involved the distribution of questionnaire to a selected number of employees. Thus, the population of workers in these firms amounted to 127. Secondary sources used included journals, project materials, books, internet materials, etc. considering the enormity of the task and the large population size of the study, the researcher adopted the Krejcie and Morgan (1970) table, thus, a total 97 randomly selected workers. The researcher further used the proportionate sampling method (22.30%) of each firm's population of workers to arrive at an appropriate sample size for each of the firm. A total of 97 copies of the questionnaire were administered to the respondents. The reliability of the instrument gave a correlation coefficient index of 0.80 which was considered very reliable using the Cronbach's Alpha. Simple tables, means and grand means were used to analyze the research questions. The research questions were based on a five-point likert scale. The hypotheses were tested at a significance level of 0.05 using the rho analytical tool with the aid of SPSS. The findings of the study revealed that: There is a positive and strong relationship between dimension of operations sensitivity and the measures of strategic alliance success such as partner computability and partner complementarity. Therefore, based on the findings of the study, the practice of operations sensitivity should be demonstrated and every worker made to imbibe it since it has the ability to enable workers to have system-wide knowledge to detect and prevent error. Organization should ensure that strategic alliance is necessary to uphold the necessary practices that are beneficial to the complimentary partners of the organizations.