Browsing The Ugandan Journal of Management and Public Policy Studies by Issue Date
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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, ... -
Corporate governance and the enforcement of standards: An appraisal of standards organizations in Tanzania
(Uganda Management Institute, 2014-03)This article debates the enforcement of quality standards within Tanzania’s corporate governance framework. The article probes into whether the continuing increase in the number of organizations responsible for monitoring ... -
Corporal punishment and students’ discipline in Uganda’s Schools: A literature review
(Uganda Management Institute, 2014-03)This paper examines the adoption of corporal punishment in managing student discipline in pre-primary, primary and secondary schools in Uganda. Corporal punishment as the intentional infliction of physical pain has long ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The effect of business regulatory standards on export trading by small enterprises: A comparative analysis of Africa and Uganda
(Uganda Management Institute, 2014-09)This article investigates the relationship between regulatory standards affecting export trade and the proportion of exporting SMEs with a focus on Africa and especially Uganda. The study is principally a global comparative ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Challenges to policy implementation in Uganda: Reflections on politics and the State
(Uganda Management Institute, 2014-09)Like many African countries, Uganda faces the problem of poor or failed implementation of state polices and government programmes. There is a big gulf between policy making and actual implementation. This article locates ... -
Democratic deficits and public confidence in public institutions in Uganda: Implications of accountability on public confidence in the Uganda Local Government Institution
(Uganda Management Institute, 2014-09)There is a general belief by scholars and practitioners alike that the notable declining public confidence in public institutions in developing countries like Uganda is a consequence of democratic deficits in institutional ... -
Determinants of tax effort in developing countries: Empirical evidence from Uganda
(Uganda Management Institute, 2014-09)Tax effort is the exertion that a country puts into collecting revenue that is necessary to meets its expenditure demands for sustainable development. One of the reforms that the World Bank recommends to DCs aimed at ... -
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’ ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Compliance with record-keeping regulatory standards in public procurement in Uganda: Performance challenges and strategic measures for improvement
(Uganda Management Institute, 2015-03)Record-keeping is widely underscored for its crucial role in enhancing transparency, accountability, fostering procurement audits, identifying performance gaps and ultimately improving the delivery of public services. In ... -
Challenges of Information and Communication Technology usage and accessibility in managing public sector records in Local Governments in Uganda
(Uganda Management Institute, 2015-03)For most developing countries, and more specifically African countries, the experience in the application of information and communication technology (ICT) to harness knowledge-based economies is still challenging. Hence, ... -
Building ethics and integrity in the public sector in Uganda: A search for a superlative approach
(2015-03)Building ethics and integrity in the public sector is a great concern for governments aiming at realizing good governance principles and for ensuring appropriate public administration and management. It is noted, however, ... -
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 ... -
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 ...