organizational development and employee job erformance in non-governmental organizations in kenya a case of world vision kenya

Abstract

Many organizations and institutions continue to develop new organizational development approaches in line with organizational change. These approaches are good and help the organization to focus on its growth. Unfortunately as the new development approaches are developed, the staff working for the same organizations is not trained to enable them get updated on the changes being introduced. This study therefore sought to establish the existing development approaches in World Vision Kenya. Specifically, the study sought to: identify the organizational development approaches utilized in World Vision Kenya, examined the importance of training on the organizational development approaches to employees, assessed the obstacles World Vision Kenya staff face while implementing organization development approaches and examined the appropriateness of Organizational Development Approaches to employee job performance. Descriptive survey design was used in this study to find out the existing organization Development Approaches within World Vision Kenya. The target population for the study was all staff of world vision Kenya that comprised 800. The sample size of the study was 260 respondents selected from five Zones or regions in Kenya. Out of the sample size of 260 the respondents that were available for interview were 210.The instruments used to collect the data were questionnaires and to ensure effectiveness of the research instruments, a thorough pretest was carried out using 10 staff members who were not included among the selected respondents. The data collected was analyzed by the use of frequencies and percentages with aid of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The findings of the study were summarized and presented in tables, pie charts, line graphs and bar graphs for effective communication. Study findings showed that lack of proper orientation was a barrier to implementing World Vision development approaches which meant that employees should be given enough time to understand organizational development approaches especially during orientation stage. The study recommended that World Vision enhance their training strategies on the new and exisiting approaches for the staff who contribute in a great extent to the development approaches within the organization. The study also recommeded that World Vision involve their staff in originating organizational development approaches to enhance individual ownership.