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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of performance appraisal (PA) on employee productivity in Mumias Sugar Company Limited. The study was guided by a case study design. The study targeted a total of 877 Unionisable employees, 422 supervisory level employees, 182 middle level management and 9 top level management. Simple random sampling was used to select 149 employees. The research instruments used for data collection were the questionnaires and interview schedules. Descriptive analysis and inferential statistic i.e. regression analysis and t-test were used. Results indicated that there was a positive and significant effect between performance appraisal and employee efficiency in Mumias Sugar Company Limited, p< 0.5.

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This paper captures aspects regarding relationships between Working Capital Management and Corporate Performance of manufacturing firms listed on the Nairobi securities exchange. A sample of 20 companies whose data for 5 years from 2007-2011 was selected. For analysis Principal components analysis (PCA)  is used due to its simplicity and its capacity of extracting relevant information from confusing data sets. Regression of the principal component show that that working capital proxies CCC, ACP and control variables CLTA, NSCA & FATA are significant at 95% confidence (p values are < .05)  To performance.

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This paper captures aspects regarding relationships between corporate governance, dividend policy and performance of banks listed on Nairobi security exchange for 5year period from 2007-2011. Apart from the available researches which mainly show relationships of two aspects, the present study focuses on the relationship of three aspects of banks which interlink from stakeholders perspective and can cause economic decline or success. This paper finds that dividend yield for banks listed on NSE as proxy of dividend policy is significant and positively correlated to business risk andgrowth opportunities GO thus tend to follow signaling hypothesis, also positively correlated to CEO duality but negative and significant to board independence as corporate governance proxies. Return on assets ROA as a performance indicator is positively correlated to board size (number of directors) and is significant.

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