Management Practices, Organisational Committment, Intellectual Capital and Performance of Public Health Centers in Kampala Metropolitan.
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2024
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The study sought to establish the relationship between management practices, organizational commitment, intellectual capital and performance of Public Health Centers in Kampala Metropolitan. The study was based on four objectives; To examine the relationship between management practices and Performance of Public health Centers; organizational commitment and Performance of Public health Centers; intellectual capital and Performance of Public health Centers and lastly to ascertain the predictive potential of management practices, organizational commitment and intellectual on Performance of Public health Centers;
A cross-sectional survey design that applied a quantitative approach to the study was adopted to capture views, attitude and opinions of various respondents. Questionnaires were used to source quantitative information. The population of the study was 180 Public Health Centers and the sample size was of 123 determined by applying Krejcie and Morgan (1970). Simple random sampling method was used for selection of public health centers and purposive sampling was used to select respondents. Data was analyzed using SPSS to establish the reliability, correlation and regression results.
The correlation results showed an existence of a significant and positive association between management practices, organizational commitment, intellectual capital and Performance of Public health Centers. The regression results however revealed a statistical significant predictability of management practices, organizational commitment and intellectual capital on Performance of Public health Centers. Regression results further indicated that a combined effort of variables of management practices, organizational commitment and intellectual capital was capable of predicting 67.9% of variance in Performance of Public Health Centers in Kampala Metropolitan (Adjusted R Square=.679).
Consequently, the researcher recommended that lower-level management should be allowed to participate in the decision-making process in all organization activities to foster goal congruence and avoid sub optimization in organizations. As such, for public health centers in Kampala Metropolitan to improve on performance, the management should try to use proper management practices, enhance organizational commitment as well as managing their intellectual capital.
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A Dissertation Submitted to Makerere University Business School (Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research) in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Award of Master of Degree of Human Resource Management of Makerere University. (PLAN A).
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Timothy, K (2024) Management Practices, Organisational Committment, Intellectual Capital and Performance of Public Health Centers in Kampala Metropolitan. Unpublished Masters Dissertation Makerere University Business School. Kampala, Uganda.