Politics, Class, and Gender in African Resource Management: The Case of Rural Kenya

1992 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 809-828 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara P. Thomas-Slayter
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Rural Kenya ◽  
And Gender

scholarly journals Tungiasis in Western Kenya: Knowledge, Perceptions, and Practices of Household Heads – A Crossectional Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 7-13
Author(s):  
Andrew Okoth Aballa
Keyword(s):  
Formal Education ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Household Head ◽  
Modified Technique ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Exact Test ◽  
Rural Kenya ◽  
Knowledge And Attitude ◽  
Household Heads ◽  
And Gender

Background: According to reports of AHADT Kenya, tungiasis afflicts four million Kenyans with 10 million more at risk of severe infestation. Anecdotal reports suggest that lack of knowledge and retrogressive beliefs and practices of household heads, them being the key decision makers in rural homes, might be barriers to the control of tungiasis. Objective: To assess the knowledge, perceptions, and practices of household heads regarding tungiasis in Kenya Methodology: A crossectional study was done in Otwenya Location, Maseno Division, Kenya. Seventy-eight (78) homes were visited and all their household members checked for the presence of tungiasis. Structured pretested questionnaires were used to collect the socio demographic data of household heads and the knowledge, perceptions, and practices around tungiasis evaluated. Data analysis was done using version 21 of the Statistical Package for Social Scientists (SPSS) software. A modified technique by Memon et al. was used to compute the knowledge and attitude scores. Fisher’s exact test with Cochran Mantel Haenszel statistics was used for data analyses at 95% CI. Results: Our data was collected in Urudi Rata (39.7%), Mbeka (35.6%), and Mariwa (24.4%) villages. Most houses had iron sheer roofs (93.6%) and floors plastered with dung or cement (60.3%). Household heads were mainly female (71.8%) with primary level education (67.9%). Tungiasis was found in 39.7% of households. Earth floors (OR=11.1, P<0.01) and overcrowding (OR=3.4, p=0.04) were risk factors for tungiasis. Most respondents (75.7%) had a moderate knowledge of tungiasis with it being lowest among heads with no formal education (OR=35.56 (1.7 to 732.6), p=0.02). The knowledge of tungiasis did not influence its occurrence in homes. (p=0.49). Most respondents (82.1%) had poor perceptions of tungiasis, which did not vary by the age, education, and gender of household. However, odds of infestation was over 4.9 times higher in homes where household head had negative perception of tungiasis (OR=4.9 p=0.03). The extraction of fleas (91.1%) was the commonest treatment option. Conclusion: Tungiasis is a common ectoparasitosis in rural Kenya with a prevalence of 19.5%. Household heads are knowledge about tungiasis. However, retrogressive beliefs, negligence, and stigma are barriers for its control.

scholarly journals Sharing the burden: Shifts in family time use, agency and gender dynamics after introduction of new cookstoves in rural Kenya

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 101413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirstie Jagoe ◽  
Madeleine Rossanese ◽  
Dana Charron ◽  
Jonathan Rouse ◽  
Francis Waweru ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Time Use ◽  
Gender Dynamics ◽  
Family Time ◽  
Rural Kenya ◽  
Family Time Use ◽  
And Gender

scholarly journals Human Resource Management Contributions to Knowledge Sharing for a Sustainability-Oriented Performance: A Mixed Methods Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucía Muñoz-Pascual ◽  
Jesús Galende ◽  
Carla Curado
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Firm Size ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
And Gender

This research examines how internal and external Human Resource Management (HRM) contributes to Knowledge Sharing (KS) in order to reach Sustainability-Oriented Performance. This paper uses a mixed methods approach to report on the main antecedents of KS for Sustainability-Oriented Performance. There are many antecedents of KS both inside and outside organizations that are as yet unidentified. This research applies two complex statistical techniques, namely, structural equation modeling (SEM) (Study 1) and fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) (Study 2). First, SEM is used to determine the antecedents of KS for Sustainability-Oriented Performance: Affective Commitment (AC) (an internal dimension of HRM) and a collaboration-oriented Human Resource Management system (CHRMS) (an external dimension of HRM). Second, three multi-group SEMs are used to determine whether a manager’s characteristics (age and gender) and firm size moderate the relationship between KS and its antecedents. Finally, an fsQCA is conducted to identify alternative configurations that lead either to KS or to its absence. The sample comprises data from an online survey of 367 certified innovative Portuguese small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The SEM results show that a collaboration-oriented HRM system always has a positive effect on KS for Sustainability-Oriented Performance. In addition, if the manager is a young man working in a small firm, their AC positively affects KS. There are alternative configurations that lead to the presence or absence of KS. There is, therefore, empirical evidence for the moderating effects of the manager’s age and gender, and firm size. Our study offers improved new HRM configurations and results when compared to the sole use of traditional quantitative statistical methods. The results are consistent and conclusive.

scholarly journals M-PESA: A Socio-Economic Assemblage in Rural Kenya

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leah Jerop Komen
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Mobile Telephony ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Ethnographic Interviews ◽  
Rural Kenya ◽  
Money Transfers ◽  
And Gender ◽  
A Site

The role of information communication technologies in development is contested between those who view it as facilitating broad based human development (Waverman et al., 2005; Jack, Suri and Townsend 2010) and those that  view it as counterproductive (Donner 2008, Castel et al 2007). Mobile telephony, in particular, is seen as the most techno-social transformation to occur. For instance, at a macro level, Waverman et al. (2005) note that ‘mobile telephony has a positive and significant impact on economic growth and this impact may be twice as large in developing countries’. Kenya’s M-PESA is a case in point. This paper looks at M-PESA as a site of inclusion and exclusion, focusing on two elements:  emerging accounts of M-PESA usage, and security on money transfers. The paper presents M-PESA as a social assemblage by adopting DeLanda’s (2006) assemblage theory, which opens up macro and micro dichotomies. Data obtained from ethnographic interviews shows that although M-PESA is meeting some needs, it also has deterministic tendencies, such as power and gender hierarchy distributions, though complex in nature. The paper has studied mobile money as a socio-economic assemblage that shows the dynamics of social change not as given, but as constantly forming and reforming.

scholarly journals My Mobile Phone, My Life: Deconstructing Development (Maendeleo) and Gender Narratives among the Marakwet in Kenya

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (16) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leah Jerop Komen
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Mobile Telephony ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
The People ◽  
Rural Kenya ◽  
Alternative Conceptualization ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Growth Change

The increased adoption of mobile telephony for development is based on the assumption that mobile telephony has the potential to foster social change. To some, such technology can aid most developing countries to leapfrog stages of development. Yet to others, the technology is at most counterproductive: development has been understood differently by the developed in comparison to the underdeveloped. Missing in this narrative is the people’s own conceptualization of the term development as well as their gender roles, often a component of development programs. This study presents findings on an alternative conceptualization of development, dubbed maendeleo, a Swahili term that denotes process, participation, progress, growth, change, and improved standard of living—as defined by the people or women themselves as they interact with mobile telephony in rural Kenya. Using Manuel DeLanda’s assemblage theory to analyze interviews, this study proposes an alternative conceptualization of development. This different perspective on development denotes both process and emergence, through the processes and roles that mobile telephony plays in the techno-social interactions of users, context, and other factors as they form social assemblages that are fluid in nature, hence challenging the Western proposition that new technologies produce development understood as social transformation.

The Profile of the Human Resource Management Director

2021 ◽  
pp. 603-630
Author(s):  
Anna Sender ◽  
Bruno Staffelbach ◽  
Wolfgang Mayrhofer
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Culture Industry ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Human Resource Professional ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Using Data

The role of the human resource management (HRM) function has significantly evolved since the 1980s. Specifically, the HRM function has become more strategic, with the most senior human resource professional (the HRM director) often being an integral member of the top management team. The profile and competencies of the HRM director, however, are crucial in shaping the strategic role of HRM in organizations. This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the role of contextual factors related to both external environment (e.g., national culture, industry) and internal environment (e.g., ownership, the role of the HR function, performance, employee turnover) for the profile of the HRM director. Using data from the Cranfield Network on International Human Resource Management study, the chapter demonstrates that significant differences in the profile of an HRM director in terms of education, experience, and gender exist across contexts. This study contributes to the HRM literature by empirically exploring the differences in the profile of the human resource director across contexts and elucidating reasons for these differences.

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