Ethnic appeal: A self-defense tool for Kenyan politicians

So far, analyses of apologetic rhetoric strategies as used by individuals or organizations to respond to accusations of wrongdoing have been concentrated in the West. An analysis of political apologia in an African setting — in this case Kenya — reveals that while Kenyan politicians have used denial, victimization, mortification, and counterattacking among other self-defense strategies, one particular strategy emerges as the most commonly used by Kenyan politicians — ethnic appeal

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMPLOYEE COMMITMENT AND PERFORMANCE OF TECHNICAL TRAINING INSTITUTES IN MERU COUNTY, KENYA

Performance contracting and teacher appraisal were introduced in schools in January 2016 (Daily Nation 2017) a report on teacher’s performance appraisal systems noted that the current teacher Performance Appraisal system requires experienced teachers to be appraised every 3 years. It also noted that teachers received an overall rating of exemplary good, satisfactory, or unsatisfactory. If unsatisfactory rating, the principal and teachers would prepare an improvement plan outlining the steps that the teacher would take to improve his or her performance and the supports that would be needed in order to carry them out and the appraisal system is the mechanism that is used to translate the school`s strategic plan into action. To determine the influence of employee commitment on the performance of Technical Training Institute in Meru County. This study adopted descriptive survey and targeted 74 respondents’ from Management staff of the 4 Technical training institutes in Meru County. The study adopted census sampling design which allowed the use of a sample size of 74 respondents. Data was collected using questionnaire. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistic such frequency and percentages. There is a strong positive relationship between employee commitment and performance of technical training institutes. It was also recommended that the technical institutes’ management should conduct seminar and training to the members of staff in order to enhance employees’ commitment and improve their organization performance.  Article visualizations

[The Development of Public Relations in] Kenya

This chapter traces the practice of PR from pre-independence Kenya to the 21st century. It emerges that the practice of PR is closely tied to major national events and to social, cultural, political and economic forces. PR roles as understood by the pre-independence colonial government: keeping the public informed on government development projects, assessing public opinion and advising government, endearing government to Kenyans and building the awareness of Kenya abroad have continued to modern-day Kenya

Corporate Crisis Communication: Examining the Interplay of Reputation and Crisis Response Strategies

This experiment study used a 2 × 3 between-subjects design to assess two factors in crisis communication and reputation management—prior corporate reputation (good and bad) and crisis response strategies (apology, sympathy, and compensation)—on an organization facing high crisis responsibility. Results indicate that stakeholders prefer apology to compensation response strategies. Organizations with a prior good reputation have better postcrisis reviews that those with a prior bad reputation. Crisis managers facing crises that generate high attribution of crisis responsibility and anger are advised to rely on apology rather than compensation strategy. It would also be advantageous for an organization with prior good reputation to highlight its past achievements when responding to a crisis

Public relations in Kenya: An exploration of models and cultural influences

This pioneer study explores the public relations models that inform the practice of public relations in Kenya, and the cultural values that influence this practice. Results show the personal influence model as the most used by practitioners in Kenya, while individualism is the most experienced cultural value. The strong correlation between personal influence model and Hofstede’s cultural value of femininity points to the practitioners’ strong desire for good interpersonal relationships with colleagues, supervisors, clients and key publics

Country reputation management: Developing a scale for measuring the reputation of four African countries in the United States

This study extends the development of country reputation measurement to other cultural contexts, specifically among sub-Saharan African countries that have shown the desire to improve their reputation in the United States and other Western nations. Although effective management of a country’s reputation lies in its ability to measure the perceptions of its target publics, there is currently no established scale that can be relied upon for such measurement of sub-Saharan African countries. In this study, a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted using second-order latent variables, and based on the goodness-of-fit indices, it was established that all four models for measuring the reputation of four countries—Angola, Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria—met the data fit criteria, thus validating the instrument. Validation of this scale provides empirical evidence that contributes to public diplomacy and country reputation management. Because the CFA process used in this study allows for replication of measurements across independent samples, practitioners interested in measuring the reputation of sub-Saharan African countries can use this scale to evaluate the reputation of these countries across samples of interest

Postcolonial redaction of socio-economic parables in Luke's gospel and a Kenyan application.

Thesis (M.Th.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2008.For those who have the courage to doubt, it can be said that the Bible which is highly regarded in Africa is not only an innocent book but also a guilty one because of the many social, political and religious evils that have bedevilled Africa from time to time and which it has condoned and has been used to sanction. Using postcolonial biblical criticism, and as a way of demonstrating that the entire Bible is another text of the empire, this thesis argues that imperial ideology promoted in Luke's socio-economic parables has contributed to another social evil i.e. the gap between the rich and the poor in Kenya

Measurements of local interfacial area: application of bi-optical fibre technique

Local mean interfacial area in gas–liquid bubbly flow is experimentally investigated; data is obtained from the experiments carried out with a double optical sensor intrusive probe and analysed by statistical methods. Local variables are measured in the riser of an external loop airlift reactor in air/water medium. The results are presented in the form of the radial pro'les of void fraction, bubble diameter and local average interfacial area at super'cial gas velocities ranging from 0.003 to 0.11 m/s. The axial variations of the same parameters are also investigated. The values of local interfacial area obtained from the classical equation and from bubble velocity statistical treatment methods agree reasonably well. This shows that the double optical probe is a reliable method for local measurements of interfacial area. Eventually, the maximum angle alpha0 between the probe vertical direction and bubble velocity vector at the piercing point is evaluated and the influence of gas superficial velocity on z0 is demonstrated