INFLUENCE OF LEADERSHIP COMMITMENT TO FOSTER INCLUSION ON STAFF PERFORMANCE IN PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES: A SURVEY OF PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES WITHIN NAIROBI COUNTY
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Affirmative action and equal employment legislation have helped diversify the workforce in numerous workplaces. The central idea of inclusion is not based on having an awareness about difference, it is about being conscious of difference, not about assimilating and homogenizing difference, it is about appreciating the essence of difference, not about making varied people the same, it is about the capability that an organization can derive from deliberately nurturing and integrating different groups of people so that they fit together. The researcher, therefore, sought to examine the influence of leadership commitment to foster inclusion on staff performance. The target population in this study was 2380 staff of the three public universities within Nairobi County. By use of Cochran’s sampling formula, a sample size of 331 was obtained. The research utilized a questionnaire to collect data from the respondents. The study adopted descriptive survey research design and the data was analyzed through SPSS V23. There existed a strong positive correlation between leadership commitment to foster inclusion and staff performance. The researcher recommended that future research should be directed towards validating the results of this study by conducting a similar research in other sectors in Kenya using data collected from different sources. Further research should also be conducted to investigate other factors that affect staff performance.
Key Words: Leadership Commitment, Inclusion, Staff Performance
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