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The study aimed to establish how institutional culture affects performance in public procurement in tertiary institutions in West Nile sub-region of Uganda. A cross-sectional study design was used. Both quantitative and qualitative approaches were adopted in the study. This study targeted a sample of 122 respondents. Simple random sampling technique was used to select amongst the user departments’ staff. Purposive sampling was used to select the Accounting Officers and Contract Committee members. Quantitative data analysis mainly consisted of descriptive statistics (frequencies and percentages) and inferential statistics (Spearman Rank Order Correlation). Findings revealed that there was a moderate positive correlation ( = .474) between institutional culture and procurement performance. Thus, it was concluded that institutional culture significantly affected performance in public procurement in tertiary institutions in West Nile sub-region of Uganda. It is recommended that tertiary institutions in West Nile Sub-region of Uganda should focus on institutional culture to improve performance in public procurement.
This study aimed to establish how institutional politics affect performance in public procurement in tertiary institutions in West Nile sub-region of Uganda. A cross-sectional study design was used. Both quantitative and qualitative approaches were adopted in the study. The study targeted a sample of 122 respondents. Simple random sampling technique was used to select amongst the user department staff. Purposive sampling was used to select the Accounting Officers and Contracts Committee members. Quantitative data analysis mainly consisted of descriptive statistics (frequencies and percentages) and inferential statistics (Spearman Rank Order correlation). Findings revealed a very weak negative correlation (rho =-.292) between institutional politics and performance of procurement. Thus, it was concluded that institutional politics, measured in terms of relationship between principals and agents and pursuit of individual agendas/self-interest, significantly affected performance of procurement in tertiary institutions in West Nile sub-region of Uganda. It is recommended that tertiary institutions in West Nile sub-region of Uganda should focus on institutional politics to improve their performance in public procurement.
European journal of management
Institutional Politics and Performance of Procurement in Tertiary Institutions in West Nile Sub-Region of Uganda2017 •
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The study aimed to establish how institutional human capacity affects performance in public procurement in tertiary institutions in West Nile sub-region of Uganda. A cross-sectional study design was used. Both quantitative and qualitative approaches were adopted in the study. This study targeted a sample of 122 respondents. Simple random sampling technique was used to select participants amongst user departments' staff. Purposive sampling was used to select the Accounting Officers and the Contracts Committee members. Quantitative data analysis mainly consisted of descriptive statistics (frequencies and percentages) and inferential statistics (Spearman Rank Order Correlation). Findings revealed a strong positive correlation ( = .611) between institutional human capacity and procurement performance. Thus, it was concluded that institutional human capacity measured in terms of professionalism and competence affected performance in public procurement in tertiary institutions in West...
The study aimed to establish how institutional human capacity affects performance in public procurement in tertiary institutions in West Nile sub-region of Uganda. A cross-sectional study design was used. Both quantitative and qualitative approaches were adopted in the study. This study targeted a sample of 122 respondents. Simple random sampling technique was used to select participants amongst user departments' staff. Purposive sampling was used to select the Accounting Officers and the Contracts Committee members. Quantitative data analysis mainly consisted of descriptive statistics (frequencies and percentages) and inferential statistics (Spearman Rank Order Correlation). Findings revealed a strong positive correlation (rho = .611) between institutional human capacity and procurement performance. Thus, it was concluded that institutional human capacity measured in terms of professionalism and competence affected performance in public procurement in tertiary institutions in West Nile sub-region of Uganda. It is recommended that tertiary institutions in West Nile sub-region of Uganda should focus on institutional human capacity building to improve performance in public procurement in the tertiary institutions.
The purpose of the study was to establish the determinants of public procurement procedures implementation in universities in Kiambu County. Various countries have instituted procurement reforms involving laws and regulations. Procurement in Kenyan public universities has been recognized as essential in service delivery. The major obstacle, however, has been inadequate regulatory compliance. The study's objectives were to find out the effect of strategic planning on implementation of public procurement procedures; the effect of organizational culture on implementation of public procurement procedures; the role of staff competence on implementation of public procurement procedures; the effect of top management support on implementation of public procurement procedures and to assess the effect of organizational culture on implementation of public procurement procedures by public universities. A conceptual framework was developed to guide the study. The study was grounded on Rational Model of Decision Making and Resource Dependence Theory. The study used descriptive survey design and sampled 21 participants. Questionnaires were used to collect data which was analyzed according to the research objectives. The study found out that the strategic planning, staff competence, support from top management and organizational culture plays an important role in enhancing implementation of procurement procedures in public universities. The study recommends that management of public universities to accord staff maximum support in order to enhance procurement procedures implementation. Top management also need to steer head cultural practices in their organizations and frequently monitor the practices so as to effectively manage them so as to boost its implementation of procurement procedures.
The study aimed to establish how institutional legal environment affects performance in public procurement in tertiary institutions in West Nile sub region of Uganda. A cross-sectional study design was used. Both quantitative and qualitative approaches were adopted in the study. This study targeted a sample of 122 respondents. Simple random sampling technique was used to select sample amongst the user departments’ staff. Purposive sampling technique was used to select the Accounting Officer and Contract Committee members. Quantitative data analysis mainly consisted of descriptive statistics (frequencies and percentages) and inferential statistics (Spearman Rank Order Correlation). Findings revealed an insignificantly very weak positive correlation ( rho = .065) between institutional legal framework and procurement performance. Thus, it was concluded that institutional legal environment, measured in terms of procurement legislations and the Procurement regulations, significantly affected performance in public procurement in tertiary institutions in West Nile sub region of Uganda. It is recommended that tertiary institutions in West Nile sub region of Uganda should focus on other institutional dynamics like institutional human capacity, institutional culture, institutional politics and institutional ethical values, but not on institutional legal environment since the correlation was very weak, in order to improve performance in public procurement in tertiary institutions in the sub region.
World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews
The impact of organizational culture on public procurement act compliance in Obuasi municipality2021 •
Public procurement has become an integral component of Saving Public purse in the whole world wide not exempting Africa and for that matter Ghana. Public procurement compliance is one of the major factors that can lead to major saving in public spending. The major objective of this research work was to appreciate how organizational culture impact on compliance with the Public Procurement Act in the Obuasi Municipality. Largely four objectives were explored to asses and investigate the study in order to draw conclusion. Both Quantitative and qualitative methods were employed to conduct the study. The study made use of 150 participants using a convenient sampling procedure. The study revealed that involvement (β = 0.42, p-value < 0.05) was a significant determinants of public procurement compliance Act whiles controlling for habit, stewardship behaviour and media publicity. Moreover, study found that Adaptability (β = 0.56, p-value < 0.05) was a significant determinants of publi...
World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews
The Effect of procurement process on procurement performance of public tertiary institutions in Ghana2022 •
The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of procurement process on tertiary institutions in Ghana. The objectives of the study include examining the effect of procurement planning on procurement performance of public tertiary universities, assessing the effect of procurement controlling on procurement performance of public tertiary universities and ascertaining the effect of procurement monitoring on procurement performance of public tertiary universities. A casual research design and cross-sectional data were collected from employees of various tertiary institutions in Ghana to answer the questions the study wanted to address. The data was collected from the respondents was entered into SPSS. The SPSS output was then used to run the regression output as well as the descriptive statistics for data analysis. The results were then presented using tables. The study finds that procurement planning, procurement control and procurement monitoring has a positive and significant effect on the procurement performance of the tertiary institutions used for the study. The study recommends that steps are taken to train the members of staff of all public institutions on the relevance of the procurement process to the success of these institutions. It is further recommended that auditors in public tertiary institutions take steps to uncover any procurement breaches that occur in these institutions so that action is taken to correct such procurement breaches.
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This study was intended to identify issues affecting implementation of public procurement policies in the government institutions. Procurement policies and procedures follow a logical pattern and are designed to ensure that the procurement process adheres to a company's financial regulations and procurement law. The study objectives were to establish the effect of training on implementation of procurement policies, to identify the effect of change management on implementation of procurement policies, to determine the effect of ethics on implementation of procurement policies and to establish the effect of organizational culture on implementation of public procurement policies in the government ministries. The study used descriptive research design with the target population of 150 staff from Ministry of East African affairs Commerce and Tourism in Kenya. A stratified random sampling technique to ensure representativeness was employed to select a sample of 109 respondents. Questi...
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