Browsing The Ugandan Journal of Management and Public Policy Studies by Title
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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 ... -
Uganda’s debt sustainability: Is it a cause of concern?
(Uganda Management Institute, 2017-11)This article analyses the debt sustainability exercise undertaken by Uganda in determining whether it provides solutions to Ugandan authorities in the management analysis, it does not seem to guide public debt management; ... -
Uganda’s efforts towards industrialization: Catalyzing production, productivity and investment in local industries
(Uganda Management Institute, 2017-05)The Ugandan economy’s trade balance has been in deficit for a number of years. Imports have been growing faster than exports, leading to trade deficits. Uganda has a vision for transformational development of the economy ... -
Using baseline studies as a basis for monitoring and evaluation: A review of the literature
(Uganda Management Institute, 2016-11)Baseline data is often required by any organization or agency before an intervention as a basis for bench-marking progress; not only when implementation commences, but even prior to starting to gain knowledge of the situation ... -
Women in governance at Central and Local Government Institutions: Tanzania’s experience
(Uganda Management Institute, 2017-11)This article provides a descriptive analysis of the state of women’s participation in decision making while occupying political and managerial positions following government of other series of conventions, reports and ...