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Making sense of an elusive concept: Academics’ perspectives of quality in higher education
(Higher Learning Research Communications, 2017-11)
Objective: Since the 1990s studies on how stakeholders in higher education perceive quality have burgeoned. Nevertheless, the majority of studies on perception of quality in higher education focus on students and employers. ...
Is Emotional Intelligence a Key Attribute of Quality leadership?
(African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2017)
There is need for quality leadership in order to have great accomplishments. Quality leadership is a combination of many factors including honesty, straightforwardness, result orientation, self control, attentiveness, ...
Shared governance in public universities in Uganda: Current concerns and directions for reform
(International Journal of African Higher Education, 2018)
This article focuses on Makerere University and Kyambogo University to highlight stakeholders’ concerns pertaining to the shared governance framework for public universities in Uganda. It is anchored in the interpretivist ...
Participation of Workers’ and Employers’ Organizations in Poverty Reduction Strategies in Uganda
(Asian Social Science, 2012-03)
It is now over a decade since poverty reduction strategies were embraced by Uganda as a one of the preconditions to reach the debt relief completion point associated with Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative. ...
Performance monitoring and quality teaching and research in private universities in Uganda
(International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research, 2018-10)
This study assessed the influence of performance monitoring on quality teaching and research in private Universities in Uganda. Specifically, the study investigated how performance tracking, performance reviews, performance ...
Adopting new approaches for public procurement efficiency: critical success factors (CSFs) for the implementation of e-procurement in Uganda’s public sector
(International Journal of Procurement Management, 2012)
In the public sector, the issue of efficiency and effectiveness (value for money) is now a key governance agenda. Electronic procurement has become prominent in the language and strategy of the public sector effectiveness ...
Using a performance measurement framework to overcome the odds against performance management in the public sector
(African Journal of Public Affairs, 2011)
The importance of measuring the efficiency and effectiveness of governmental programmes features prominently in almost every discourse related to programme monitoring and evaluation. Phrases like ‘what gets measured gets ...
Measuring the performance of contractors in government construction projects in developing countries: Uganda’s context
(African Journal of Business Management, 2012-08-15)
Traditionally, the success of projects is measured on time, cost and quality parameters; although, most construction projects in Uganda have not performed well on each of these parameters. In this paper, we identify important ...
Contract Management and Performance of Road Maintenance Projects: The Case of Arua Municipality
(Universal Journal of Management, 2016)
This purpose of this study was to establish the relationship between contract management and performance of road maintenance projects in Arua Municipality. A cross-sectional survey design was used, with data collected from ...
Good teaching: Aligning student and administrator perceptions and expectations
(Higher Learning Research Communications, 2017-06)
Extant literature attests to limited systematic inquiry into students’ perceptions of good teaching in higher education. Consequently, there have been calls for engaging students in construing what makes good university ...