Browsing The Ugandan Journal of Management and Public Policy Studies by Title
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Good governance and intellectual capital: Emerging evidence from universities in Uganda
(Uganda Management Institute, 2017-05-01)The study explores faculty perception of intellectual capital and governance practice in public and private universities in Uganda. Furthermore, the investigation examines factors that account for faculty retention and ... -
The good, bad and ugly of administrative reforms in Africa: Discourse, policy controversies and policy orientations
(Uganda Management Institute, 2015-03)The article revisits through a policy analysis the on-going debate on the major structuring of administrative reforms so badly needed to move Africa from a backward to a service delivery society. Critically and analytically ... -
Human resource hiring process and cooperation in greater Bushenyi Districts, Western Uganda
(Uganda Management Institute, 2015-03)This study assesses the relationship between human resource hiring process (HRHP) and cooperation of Greater Bushenyi Districts Local Government (GBDLG). The Greater Bushenyi District Local Governments includes the Districts ... -
Identifying the internal environment components critical to realizing the planned performance of Micro-Finance Institutions in Uganda
(Uganda Management Institute, 2014-09)The nature of a firm’s internal environment is known to be a major determinant of its performance. It is, however, not always clear which components of this environment are critical and therefore need more managerial attention ... -
Institutional and legal factors affecting environmental management in a decentralized system of governance: A case of wetlands in Uganda
(Uganda Management Institute, 2015-03)Decentralization of natural resource management is considered by many development agents, researchers and environmentalists, as a way to improve efficiency and equity in natural resource management. Under the decentralization ... -
Institutional capacity critical for effective record management towards enhanced transparency and accountability in public procurements
(Uganda Management Institute, 2016-11)Enhancing transparency and accountability is widely recognized as an indicator for improved governance and pre-requisite for enhancing service delivery and development. In a bid to promote transparency and accountability ... -
Influence of culture on decision making in organizations: Applying Hofstede’s value dimensions
(Uganda Management Institute, 2014-03)Quite often, the decision making process has been understood from the quantitative approach; highly influenced by, inter alia, game theory, decision tress and linear programmes. Moreover, there is a preoccupation with ... -
Massification and quality of research, publications and community engagement in higher education: A case of Gulu University
(Uganda Management Institute, 2017-11)Research, publication and community engagement constitute core functions in a management of research; publication and community engagement in the science based faculties at Gulu University are brought to bear. This research ... -
Oversight role of rule of parliament and the management of public finances in Uganda: a financial approach
(Uganda Management Institute, 2017-05-01)The oversight role of Parliament has been variously described as, for example, Chameleon-like, as ever expanding and as an iconic concept. The oversight role of Parliament is a contested but fundamental concept in the ... -
Participatory governance: Which way for Uganda?
(Uganda Management Institute, 2017-05-01)Participation of communities in development initiatives has been a key concern for countries world over. Through the decentralization policy, Uganda has over the years emphasized that participation of community members ... -
Performance of non-African foreign commercial banks in Uganda
(Uganda Management Institute, 2016-11)The focus of this study was to establish key factors responsible for the performance of non-African foreign Commercial banks in Uganda, in the light of Global Advantage Theory. The analysis was supplemented by structure–conduct ... -
Political decentralization and service delivery: Evidence from Agago District, Uganda
(Uganda Management Institute, 2014-09)Does political decentralization improve the provision of service delivery? Many developing countries have taken to political decentralization as an instrument of development that plays a central role in increasing citizens’ ... -
Readiness and implementation of the open performance appraisal in the Uganda Public Service
(Uganda Management Institute, 2017-11)The Open Performance Appraisal (OPA) was introduced, among other performance service delivery. OPA marked a shift from the closed performance appraisal system. Despite efforts to build capacity for its implementation, the ... -
The relationship between employee reward and job satisfaction in Uganda Management Institute: an empirical study
(Uganda Management Institute, 2014)The purpose of the study was to assess the relationship between employee reward and job satisfaction in Uganda Management Institute. A cross-sectional survey design was used with the target sample size being 118. Purposive, ... -
Research funding at Makerere University and its implications on human resource and institutional development: Does gender matter?
(Uganda Management Institute, 2016-11)The study investigated the research funding pattern at Makerere University. The major focus was to assess how the research funding pattern at Makerere University translated into human resource and institutional development ... -
Reward policy as distributive justice: The case of primary school teachers in Uganda
(Uganda Management Institute, 2016-11)This study focused on the effect of reward policy on distributive justice. Primary school teachers from 2009 expected to be rewarded with just salaries. When these were not forthcoming, teachers went on strike between 2009 ... -
Search for improved public service delivery in Tanzania: Is the policy-implementation dichotomy an elixir?
(Uganda Management Institute, 2014-03)New Public Management (NPM) presupposes that if public service delivery were to be improved, policy-making should be separated from policy implementation. Although attempts to distinguish policy-making from implementation ... -
Service delivery and performance management for development at local levels in Tanzania: A myth or reality?
(Uganda Management Institute, 2014-03)Tanzania’s Local Government Reform Programme (LGRP) of 1998 aimed at improving the delivery of quality services to the public. The main strategy is decentralization, which is being implemented through decentralization by ... -
State and society relations in Uganda’s political-economic transitions: Structures, processes and outcomes of governance since 1986
(Uganda Management Institute, 2014-09)The article discusses the nature and dynamics of structures and processes of state and society relations in Uganda and the political and economic outcomes in the country. Empirical data from the Economic Commission for ... -
Teacher professional development and quality of pedagogical practices in public secondary schools in Uganda
(Uganda Management Institute, 2017-05)This article provides an analysis of the influence of teacher professional development on the quality of pedagogical practices in public secondary schools in Uganda. The study specifically examined the extent to which ...