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Assessment of relationship between management policies and transfer of skills: A case of public secondary school heads in Nyeri County, Kenya

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  • Frasiah Wangari Mburu

    (School of Business, Karatina University, Karatina, 10101, Kenya)

  • Alice W. Kamau

    (Department of Human Resource Development, Karatina University, Karatina, 10101, Kenya)

  • Stephen M. Macharia

    (Department of Human Resource Development, Karatina University, Karatina, 10101, Kenya)

Abstract

Despite heavy investments in training and development, low-quality education standards and challenges in management practices have been a sticky problem in the Kenyan education sector. Organization Theory guided the main aim of this study in establishing the relationship between management policies and transfer of skills for public secondary school headteachers in schools management. The study adopted a descriptive research design. Questionnaires were used to collect quantitative and qualitative data. Data were analyzed through descriptive and inferential statistics. The study population comprised 226 headteachers. A mixture of stratified random sampling and census study was adopted in sampling 69 respondents. The results established that management policies explained a 23.4% variation in the transfer of skills for school heads. ?1 = 0.536 and p-value = 0.000 (p

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  • Frasiah Wangari Mburu & Alice W. Kamau & Stephen M. Macharia, 2021. "Assessment of relationship between management policies and transfer of skills: A case of public secondary school heads in Nyeri County, Kenya," International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science (2147-4478), Center for the Strategic Studies in Business and Finance, vol. 10(6), pages 355-368, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:rbs:ijbrss:v:10:y:2021:i:6:p:355-368
    DOI: 10.20525/ijrbs.v10i6.1324
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