| dc.description.abstract | This study sought to establish the factors of tripartite consultation that influenced the performance
of state corporations in Kenya. Kenya has one of the oldest institutions for tripartite consultation
and social dialogue in Africa, but the established mechanism had not been used with degree of
consistency. Hence, the benefits of tripartism had not been reaped. The study adopted a descriptive
survey design. The population of the study constituted all the state corporations in Kenya and the
target population comprised the unionized state corporations in Nairobi County. Fourteen state
corporations were randomly selected from which study subjects were drawn. Stratified random and
purposive sampling were applied. The research instruments included questionnaire and interview
guide. Quantitative and qualitative data were analyzed by use of Statistical Package of Social
Sciences (SPSS) and establishment of emerging themes respectively. The study found that employers
adequately performed their roles. Besides, trade unions had adequately performed their roles but
had not assured workers a share of profits and had not publicized the Charter. Besides, the Ministry
of Labour had played its roles amidst challenges among others, delay in settlement of disputes,
human resource constraints and inadequate budgetary allocations. The tripartite consultation
system existed but had challenges such as reluctance of trade unions recognition, delay in conclusion
and implementation of collective agreements. Economic change had insignificant effect on
performance of state corporations since, the government cushioned the corporations in hard
economic times. Besides confrontational approach had been embraced by most strong trade unions
as the most effective approach of solving labour issues like pay. Tripartite consultation positively
intervened between the independent variables and the dependent variable. The study adopted two
multiple linear regression models. One with and the other without the effect of the intervening
variable. When tripartite consultation was held constant, all the variables had significant positive effect on the performance of state corporations, apart from economic change. With effect of
tripartite consultation, it was found that all the variables had significant positive effect on the
performance of state corporations apart from relationship between social partners and economic
change. Some of the study's recommendations included: government should enhance the capacity
of the Ministry of Labour; future negotiations should be informed by research that takes into
account increase in production. The study suggested the following areas for future research:
investigate on HRM Union Substitution/ suppression in non-unionized state corporations and effects
of economic change on the performance of the private sector companies in Kenya. | en_US |
