Determinants of employee performance in donor funded Programs: a case of University of Nairobi, college of Health Sciences Donor funded programs

Abstract

Every organization will always strive to have the right personnel at the workplace capable of \neffectively and efficiently completing the work required by the organization so as to achieve \nits objectives. This study sought to establish the determinants of employee performance in \ndonor-funded programs at the College of Health Sciences (CHS), University of Nairobi \n(UoN) based on factors that influence employee performance. The objectives of this research \nwere; to assess the influence of pay system to employee performance in donor-funded \nprograms at the CHS, UoN; to establish the influence of leadership on employee performance \nin donor-funded programs at the CHS, UoN; to assess the influence of non-monetary \nincentives on employee performance in donor-funded programs at the CHS, UoN; to identify \nthe influence of organization culture on employee performance in donor-funded programs at \nthe CHS, UoN and to examine the influence of work-life conflicts on the performance of \nemployees in donor funded programs at the CHS, UoN. The study employed a descriptive \ncross-sectional research design using a structured questionnaire as the data collection \ninstrument. A census was done for employees working in ten (10) donor-funded programs at \nthe College of Health Sciences which led to a total of fifty-one (51) employees. Data analysis \nwas done using the Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS) software. The study \nestablished that the pay system, leadership, non-monetary incentives, organizational culture \nand work-life conflicts influenced employee performance for workers in donor-funded \nprograms at the College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi and recommended: \nintroduction of more fringe benefits that would boost employee performance, communication \non the programs’ objectives to employees to enhance their performance, involvement of \nemployees in decision making, setting goals and giving feedback, use of targets to encourage \nto productivity and give formal supports to employees such as family-oriented policies job \nsharing and sick child care will help the employees deal with work-life conflicts.

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