Influence Of Transformational Leadership on Knowledge Management Practices in Select Family-Owned Businesses in Kenya: A Case of Tumaini Gardens and English Press
| dc.contributor.author | Nicholas Mungai | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-08-14T09:37:37Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-08-14T09:37:37Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024-08-14 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Family-owned businesses play a critical role in propelling the economic, political, and social advancement of a nation. However, for such businesses to continually influence a global, regional and national growth, they need to have transformational leaders, who will inspire, motivate, and encourage employees to acquire, share, utilize, and store knowledge. The study sought to investigate the influence of transformational leadership on knowledge management practices in family-owned businesses. The study was embedded on two theories namely Transformational Leadership Theory and Knowledge Management Theory. The study was anchored on the interpretivist worldview and adopted qualitative research design, using a,using a phenomenological approach. However, to enable the researcher understand behavior, and attitudes embedded in transformational leadership and knowledge management, the study also collected and analyzed quantitative data. Moreover, the quantitative data was useful in describing the characteristic of the study population and how they experience both transformational leadership and knowledge management. The target population of the study was all the 144 employees of Tumaini Gardens (42 employees) and English Press Limited (102 employees), whereby 17% or 24 participants formed the sample size. The study used a questionnaire to collect quantitative data from the operational/junior staff administered physically. To support the questionnaire survey, an interview guide was employed on senior leadership, middle level managers as well as supervisors selected through purposive sampling to provide qualitative perspectives. Content analysis was used to analyse qualitative data while quantitative data was analysed using descriptive as well as inferential statistics. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 28 was used in analysis. The results revealed a positive significant relationship between individualized consideration, inspiration motivation as well as idealized influence traits of transformational leadership and knowledge management (r = 0.738, p = 0.037 < 0.05; (r = 0.624, p =0.017 < 0.05; r = 0.514, p= 0.031 < 0.05, respectively). Further, the findings found a strong negative relationship between intellectual stimulation trait of transformational leadership and knowledge management (r = -0.844, p= 0.012 < 0.05). The dominant descriptive results showed that the business leaders spends time mentoring and coaching junior staff; policies and procedures manuals were regularly updated; and that managers emphasized on employee learning and development. The study concluded that, the more the individualized consideration as well as intellectual stimulation, the better the knowledge management practices was likely to be sustained notwithstanding the minimal effect. The study recommends the sampled family-owned businesses sustain individualized consideration as well as inspiration motivation traits of transformational leadership. There is need to enhance mechanisms for mentoring and coaching junior staff as well as regularly updating business policies and procedures manuals. It is recommended that sampled family-owned businesses need to re-evaluate and adopt intellectual stimulation trait of transformational leadership which is lacking because it was negatively associated with knowledge management practices. This can be done by encouraging new insights from employees and by taking employees new ideas into consideration. To further establish the link between transformational leadership and knowledge management practices, it is proposed that other businesses other than family-owned businesses be examined and empirically proven. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repo.pacuniversity.ac.ke/handle/123456789/4468 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | PAC University | |
| dc.title | Influence Of Transformational Leadership on Knowledge Management Practices in Select Family-Owned Businesses in Kenya: A Case of Tumaini Gardens and English Press | |
| dc.type | Thesis |