The Organizational Performance Management Practices and Employee Productivity in Mombasa County Government, Kenya

Abstract

Organization assets is significant to the productivity and staff performance at the county level since the employees take care of all other non-human resources for the purposes and achieving the set of objectives. Despite the contributions of the employees in the counties, scanty of studies have been carried out to determine the effect of organizational process asset performance management on employee’s productivity. Therefore, this study aimed to establish the effect of organizational performance on process asset on productivity of employees in Mombasa County government. The specific objectives of the study were; to identify the effect of goal setting in reference to process assets, career planning based on assets process, competence based evaluation and continuous feedback on the process asset productivity in County Government of Mombasa.
The study was anchored on human capital theory, asset process theory and goal setting theory. The study was carried out in Mombasa County. Descriptive and exploratory research design was used. The total respondents targeted were 2200. Stratified sampling was used to classify the respondents and simple random sampling was used to sample 290 employees working in the County Government of Mombasa. Questionnaires were used to collect primary data. Validity was sought from experts and reliability was tested using Cronbach alpha and a test score of 0.7 was the threshold. The data collected was analyzed by inferential statistics and descriptive statistics. SPSS was used to generate both descriptive data and inferential data which were presented into tables and figures. The findings of this study would be of great relevance to the county management as it highlights the relationships that exist between organizational assets performance and employee productivity. The first objective on effect of goal setting in reference to assets productivity, majority of the respondents agreed that assets had the impact and power in staff handling the tasks assigned. Majority of the respondents agreed that proper and effective resources were not provided. The study concluded assets productivity goals in the organizations are motivators and enables employees to improve on service provision. The second
objective was on the effect of career planning on employee productivity in reference to assets.

 Majority of the respondents agreed that employees were oriented on their desired field of work with relevant assets to enable them plan for their careers. The study findings presented that majority of employees were able to attend to the duties allocated to them comfortably with current assets. The study concluded that process assets is vital in career planning was vital in ensuring that employees grow their talent in an attempt in supporting organizational overall goals. Influence of competence based evaluation on employee productivity was the study’s third objective. The results presented that majority of the respondent agreed that employee skills had improved over time in the County. The study concluded that competence of employees was vital in explaining the productivity of employees in the county. The study recommended that competence based evaluation should be improved by the county managers through training, workshops and seminars wit rightful assets. The fourth objective was to establish the effect of continuous feedback on asset productivity. The findings indicated that majority of the respondents agreed that there was effective feedback on information with current process assets regarding customer service delivery collected from employees. The findings reported that the continuous feedback reports enabled the county to work on improving the employee’s skills and knowledge. The continuous feedback in the county is significant in ensuring that every department contributes towards the common objectives. The study recommended that the directors
of process assets and other relevant directors in the county government should ensure that there is continuous feedback on matters related to process assets in reference to employee competence and areas that need improvement in the county.