Abstract: Proper functioning of a state economy depends on the civil service to play the crucial roles of service delivery. In the event that the service delivery becomes ineffective or constrained, it affects the nation’s development process and citizen’s quality of life. To enhance and improve the service delivery to the citizenly, countries across the globe have responded by introducing the concept of performance contracting. Performance contract is the means through which better results are obtained from the firms’ teams, and understanding and managing performance within the agreed standards and competence requirement. The objective of this study was to determine whether skills development has an effect on effective performance of Kakamega County Government. Descriptive survey research design was adopted as these methods are useful in describing the state of affairs as they exist and association between the variables. A stratified sampling technique was used since the target population involved individuals of different cohorts. The data was analysed using descriptive as well as the inferential statistics. At 99% confidence interval, the correlation analysis results showed that skills development practices had positive and significant relationship with the performance in Kakamega County Government at 0.664 and P =0.00 < 0.01. Similarly, regression results indicated that skills development practices had a positive effect on the performance effectiveness. The study recommends that Kakamega County develops and trains its human resources and source for highly qualified individuals who will adopt performance contracting for effective performance.
Keywords: Skills development, performance contracting, performance effectiveness.
Title: The Role of Skills Development on Effective Performance of Kakamega County Government
Author: Judith Makokha, Dr. Clive Mukanzi, Mr. Abraham Malenya
International Journal of Management and Commerce Innovations
ISSN 2348-7585 (Online)
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