...IBIMA Publishing Journal of Human Resources Management Research http://www.ibimapublishing.com/journals/JHRMR/jhrmr.html Vol. 2011 (2011), Article ID 598896, 20 pages DOI: 10.5171/2011.598896 The Adoption of Strategic Human Resource Management Practices in Commercial Banks: The Process and Challenges in Kenya George O. Omondi1, Peterson Obara Magutu2, Cliff Ouko Onsongo3 and Linda A. Abong’o4 1 Department of Business Administration, School of Business, University of Nairobi, Nairobi - Kenya 2 Department of Management Science, University of Nairobi, Nairobi - Kenya 3 School of Business, Jomo Kenyatta University of Science and Technology, Nairobi - Kenya 4 Central Bank of Kenya, Nairobi - Kenya ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract Developing an effective human resource system that is compatible with organizational strategy is critical for the functioning and success of an organization in the competitive business arena. The main objectives of the study were to establish the extent of adoption of strategic human resource management practices among commercial banks in Kenya; and to determine the factors that influence adoption of strategic human resource management practices by commercial banks in Kenya. The research questions were systematically generated from the objectives. In the data analysis, descriptive statistics and factor analysis were used to help draw comparisons and...
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...Adoption: A Forever Family Tracey M. Bourgoin Liberty University Abstract "Adoption is the creation of a new, permanent relationship between an adoptive parent and child. Once this happens, there is no legal difference between a child who is adopted and a child who is born into a family. Birthparents have many different reasons for putting children up for adoption" (Gaddie, 2009). Some decide that they want better lives for their children than they feel they are able to provide. Many birthparents say that having their child placed for adoption with another family is the most difficult thing in the world, but that sometimes it is truly in the child's best interest. There are many people who associate adoption with infertility, although many people who can have children, or already do, are adopting children more and more. Adopting a child is a very lengthy process and can take several years before the process is finally complete. Knowing which direction to begin in the process can also be frustrating for couples who are seeking to adopt as well. After all the paperwork, interviews, and home visits you will find that in the end your adoption journey will have been the most rewarding and fulfilling experience of your lifetime - and one that you will never take for granted once that precious gift from God is placed in your arms. Keywords: Adoption, birthparents, infertility, home visits, and interviews Adoption Introduction There are many married couples who struggle...
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...Instructor Date Adoption Jean Garton once said that adoption is the only thing that has served women, children and the society well. The decision to adopt a child is a serious and huge one. Families are increasingly becoming pro-adoption with some even crossing borders and continents for the sake of adoption. Adoption is the process whereby a child or children are brought together to form a family by adults, who are not their biological parents. Adoption is not a new practice in society, in fact it has been practiced for a long time, though mostly through informal processes. The adoption process in the US today involved a lot of legal processes mostly for the sake of protecting the welfare of the children. This is important due to the inability of their biological parents to care for them. The active history of adoption dates back to the period between 1945 to 1974.This period was named the baby scoop era because of rapid acceptance of adoption as a way of family building. The World War II brought about a rise in the number of illegitimate births. The option of adoption therefore became a remedy for the unmarried mothers and couples who had fertility problems (Conn 45) These occurrences promoted adoption in the American setting making adoption legal with its main aim being to ensure the best interest of the child. It is also worth noting that the first American adoption law began in Massachusetts. This law also upheld the secrecy of the adoption process especially by sealing...
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...Adoption in the United States Even though it may not be the right time for a birthmother to raise a baby, she could help another family fulfill their lifelong dream to have a baby. Although adoption may be the right decision for her to make for her and her baby, adoption is a forever decision. The birthmother can contact an adoption professional in her state and explore adoption as the right decision for her and her baby. What is Adoption? Adoption is a legal decision that gives the right for someone else to raise a child. The birthmother gives up her rights as the legal parent of her child (Adopt Florida, 2002). Adoption is also considered to be a loving act of caring for a child. The birthparent(s) can choose for another family to raise their child out of love for their child. Working together, the birthparent(s) and the adoptive parents will make a plan in the best interest of the child (American adoptions, 2009). Adoption is not foster care, rather, a permanent placement for a child. Do not rush into adoption without fully understanding and exploring other choices (Adoption Network, 2003-2010). Although adoption may be the right decision for the birthmother to make, adoption is a forever decision. Whether the birthmother is single or married, she may believe that her relationship is not stable enough to raise a child or cannot care for a child (American Adoptions, 2009). Every reason to choose adoption is unique. To make adoption a decision can be very difficult...
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...Open VS Closed Adoption Background Adoption is a process by which those who adopt a child become the child’s legal parents, and the child ceases to be the legal child of his or her biological parents (Higgins, 2010). All the legal consequences of parenthood are transferred from birth parents to the adoptive parents. The adopted child receives a new birth certificate showing the adopters as the parents, and acquires rights of support and inheritance from the adopting parents. The adopting parents acquire rights to guardianship and custody of the child. Normally the child takes the adopters’ surname. The birth parents cease to have any legal obligations towards the child and lose their rights to custody and guardianship. For an adoption to...
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...Canadian Child Adoptions Inc. (CCA) Canadian Child Adoptions Inc. (CCA) is a consulting company wholly owned by Roger Tremblay, a wealthy, recently retired lawyer. CCA helps Canadian families adopt infants from other countries. Typically, these infants have been abandoned or have lost their parents to disease or war, and are being sheltered in government-sponsored orphanages. Further information on the activities of CCA can be found in Exhibit I. CCA is a full-service coordinator, helping parents with all aspects of the international adoption process (Exhibit II). The company charges a fee to cover the costs associated with the adoption process and its consulting service. CCA is required to be registered as an international adoption coordinator with the Canadian government, and as such must follow certain criteria set out by Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC). Effective July 1, 2007, CIC now requires all registered coordinators to submit audited financial statements in accordance with GAAP, and to hold fees collected in trust on behalf of the parents. The fees requirement also applies to all adoptions already in process. Throughout the adoption process, CCA can only withdraw funds from the trust to pay for adoption-related expenses. Once an adoption has been finalized, CCA can withdraw the remaining funds. CCA's financial statements have never been audited or reviewed and the company relies on the services of a full-time bookkeeper to complete its internal financial...
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...Instructor Date Adoption Jean Garton once said that adoption is the only thing that has served women, children and the society well. The decision to adopt a child is a serious and huge one. Families are increasingly becoming pro-adoption with some even crossing borders and continents for the sake of adoption. Adoption is the process whereby a child or children are brought together to form a family by adults, who are not their biological parents. Adoption is not a new practice in society, in fact it has been practiced for a long time, though mostly through informal processes. The adoption process in the US today involved a lot of legal processes mostly for the sake of protecting the welfare of the children. This is important due to the inability of their biological parents to care for them. The active history of adoption dates back to the period between 1945 to 1974.This period was named the baby scoop era because of rapid acceptance of adoption as a way of family building. The World War II brought about a rise in the number of illegitimate births. The option of adoption therefore became a remedy for the unmarried mothers and couples who had fertility problems (Conn 45) These occurrences promoted adoption in the American setting making adoption legal with its main aim being to ensure the best interest of the child. It is also worth noting that the first American adoption law began in Massachusetts. This law also upheld the secrecy of the adoption process especially by sealing...
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...Adoption counselors are a type of counselor that deals with all aspects of the adoption process. They work with the family that is going to be adopting, and they work with the biological parents of the adoptee. They help them through the adoption. Adoption can be an extremely hard thing for everyone included. It is very emotional and stressful. The counselors are there to help everyone get through it. Adoption counselors are needed to be the mediator between the birth parents and the adoptive parents. They can bridge the gap between the two and make the adoption process go as smoothly as possible. They are there for both parties. They provide support and encouragement to the families and offer advice since they are true counselors. There are...
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...Understanding Technology Adoption: Theory and Future Directions for Informal Learning Evan T. Straub REVIEW OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH 2009 79: 625 DOI: 10.3102/0034654308325896 The online version of this article can be found at: http://rer.sagepub.com/content/79/2/625 Published on behalf of American Educational Research Association and http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and information for Review of Educational Research can be found at: Email Alerts: http://rer.aera.net/alerts Subscriptions: http://rer.aera.net/subscriptions Reprints: http://www.aera.net/reprints Permissions: http://www.aera.net/permissions Downloaded from http://rer.aera.net at UNIV OF SOUTH FLORIDA on February 10, 2011 Review of Educational Research June 2009, Vol. 79, No. 2, pp. 625–649 DOI: 10.3102/0034654308325896 © 2009 AERA. http://rer.aera.net Understanding Technology Adoption: Theory and Future Directions for Informal Learning Evan T. Straub The Ohio State University How and why individuals adopt innovations has motivated a great deal of research. This article examines individuals’ computing adoption processes through the lenses of three adoption theories: Rogers’s innovation diffusion theory, the Concerns-Based Adoption Model, the Technology Acceptance Model, and the United Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology. Incorporating all three models, this article suggests technology adoption is a complex, inherently social, developmental process; individuals construct...
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...Have you ever thought about adopting a child? What it would be like to bring a new child in as a member of your family and be able to call the child your own? Before a person or couple decides to adopt a child, they should decide whether the adoption should be a closed adoption or an open adoption. Each type of adoption is done a different way, but closed adoption is more beneficial than an open adoption. Closed adoption which is also called a secret adoption has been a great way of taking children in and giving them a family. This type of adoption is one in which there is no communication, before or after, that takes place between the family that is adopting and the parents that gave birth to the child (Roth 24). To learn more about this adoption, it is a good idea to know how the adopting process works, what the history behind it is, and why it is a more beneficial way of adopting children. To begin with, the way closed adoption is set up is by a legal process that is used by any kind of adoption. This legal process is used to help build a kinship between the parents and the child that are not blood related. The couple who wants to adopt are to go to an adoption agency where they will be assigned a case worker to talk to about adopting a child (Samuels 66). The case worker will then sit down with the couple and get all the information he or she needs about them such as their health backround and test how much they are emotionally mature (Roth 23). The case worker also has...
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...1 Tawana Gant English 102 Professor Hennicke April 8, 2013 Open Adoption vs. Closed: A Narcissism Ride Imagine being blind and experiencing the following. You’re 7 years old and your parents have just been in a devastating car crash and right before your eyes you’re now an orphan. Suddenly within weeks, you’re with a family that is in no relation to you and you have brothers and sisters but you do not know where they are because they have been placed with another family. Now having no source of connection with them, you feel emptiness inside because of this tragic change that has happened around you and your family within a short time span. Personally speaking this would be incapacitating to be around a family that were no resemblance to me; who they were or where they came from, and having them make decisions about my life without having any benefaction of my choice. In what manner do the rights of others have to anyone’s information for medical records through a closed adoption process, halting any of the child’s connections? The steps of adoption is to give the child a better contingency at life, though to interfere and disconnect his or her life ties involving their bloodline and history would not be sufficient to their lives in anyway. In other words to have a closed adoption is like someone telling a child there is no way of acquainting with the birth family or simply there is no history to be told about his or her biological roots. Generally speaking...
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...Examination on the Strategic use of Information Technology in Tanzania Service Industries in Achieving and Sustaining Competitive Advantage and Suggestions for improving their effectiveness” You are required to search the relevant research materials on the topic in hand and compose a report. Your report should critically discuss the issues of technological adoption on the use of IT practices by the consumers and business enterprises; In addition, your report should explore areas of strategic applications of IT by business enterprises, the challenges involved and suggestions for their improvements. Support your report with reference to case studies and /or examples of companies. i TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT ...................................................................................................................................... iii 1.0 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................1 2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW ..............................................................................................................2 3.0 IT adoption concept on entreprise ..................................................................................................3 3.0.1 Internal Factors ..........................................................................................................................3 3.0.2 External Factors ................................................................
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...There are 2 types of adoption, national and international adoption. In this essay I will be defining international adoption and the pros and cons of it. International adoption is when a person or family adopt children out of the country. International adoption fakes strong transnational bonds: It establishes parental ties between an individual or a couple and a child who is a citizen of another country. For some adoptive parents, international adoption gives them a way to expand their families. For others, it fulfills a humanitarian impulse to care for a child who might otherwise face a harsh future. 8 months to one and a half years old are the most popular age range of when the children get adopted. Infants are typically about six months old...
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...benefit. The companies are seriously depending on IT for processing their work because IT has supremacy to alter the whole organization such as size, net-profit, efficiency, human activity competence and customer contentment. A category III IS advancement, ERP (Enterprise resource planning system), has strategic application for the business since the incorporation of this system into all the major strategies or processes of the business can have a direct impact on the performance of the business (Sambamurthy et al. 2003). Majority businesses, therefore, have started to plan their strategies with their focus on information technologies in general and ERP adoption in particular (Bharadwaj 2000; Robey et al. 2002). Despite the fact that the businesses are looking for deriving competitive advantages by the adoption of this highly...
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...In his comprehensive book Diffusion of Innovation, Everett Rogers defines diffusion as the process by which an innovation is communicated through certain channels over time among the members of a social system. Rogers' definition contains four elements that are present in the diffusion of innovation process. The four main elements are: 1. Innovation - an idea, practices, or objects that is perceived as knew by an individual or other unit of adoption. 2. Communication channels - the means by which messages get from one individual to another. 3. time - the three time factors are: • • innovation-decision process Relative time with which an innovation is adopted by an individual or group. • Innovation’s rate of adoption. 4. Social system - a set of interrelated units that are engaged in joint problem solving to accomplish a common goal. Make a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to our door. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Background on Diffusion of Innovation The original diffusion research was done as early as 1903 by the French sociologist Gabriel Tarde who plotted the original S-shaped diffusion curve. Tardes' 1903 S-shaped curve is of current importance because "most innovations have an S-shaped rate of adoption". (Rogers, 1983) The variance lies in the slope of the "S". Some new innovations diffuse rapidly creating a steep S-curve; other innovations have a slower rate of adoption, creating a more gradual slope of the...
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