IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/src/jbsree/v11y2025i3p333-350.html

Effect of Employee Recognition on the Performance of Health Care Employees among Selected County Governments in Western Kenya

Author

Listed:
  • Zakia, Makokha
  • Egessa, Robert
  • Ben, Oseno

Abstract

Purpose: To assess the effect of employee recognition on the performance of health care employees among selected county governments in Western Kenya.Design/Methodology/Approach: The study adopted a descriptive cross sectional survey research design.& The study targeted 600 health sector staff of selected County Governments. Samples of 240 staff were used. Primary data were obtained by use questionnaires. Results were discussed and presented in tables. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics such as frequencies, percentages, mean, standard deviation and inferential statistics included Pearson correlation and regression analysis.Findings: The results of this research were that employee recognition has a positive statistical significant effect on performance of health care employees of County Governments in Western Region (p-value of 0.000 and t tests exceeding 1.96). The study rejected all the null hypothesis set.Implications/Originality/Value: The study recommends that County government’s management in Western Region should always treat employees with recognition for tasks well done through praising, gifts and promotions.

Suggested Citation

  • Zakia, Makokha & Egessa, Robert & Ben, Oseno, 2025. "Effect of Employee Recognition on the Performance of Health Care Employees among Selected County Governments in Western Kenya," Journal of Business and Social Review in Emerging Economies, CSRC Publishing, Center for Sustainability Research and Consultancy Pakistan, vol. 11(3), pages 333-350, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:src:jbsree:v:11:y:2025:i:3:p:333-350
    DOI: http://doi.org/10.26710/jbsee.v11i3.3474
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://publishing.globalcsrc.org/ojs/index.php/jbsee/article/view/3474/1920
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/http://doi.org/10.26710/jbsee.v11i3.3474?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:src:jbsree:v:11:y:2025:i:3:p:333-350. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Prof. Dr. Ghulam Shabir (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/csrcmpk.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.