THE INFLUENCE OF HUMAN RESOURCE COMPLIANCE AUDIT ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE OF PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES IN WESTERN KENYA

Abstract

A human resource compliance audit is one of the critical aspects of the universities that helps ensure all the policies, procedures, and practices of the university are adhered to by the management and other employees. Employee performance has been reported to be low in many universities. This is because of non-adherence to the university policies and practices. Therefore, the main objective of this study was to establish the effect of human resource compliance audits on employee performance at public universities in Western Kenya. The study was based on human capital theory. The study adopted a descriptive research design. The target population for the study was 187 respondents comprising 9 human resource managers, 9 deputy human resource managers, 121 human resource officers, and 48 internal auditors in all public universities in Western Kenya. Stratified random sampling was used to select 127 respondents. Questionnaires were used to collect primary data. Reliability was tested using Cronbach’s alpha and validity using experts and factor analysis. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze data. Regression analysis indicated that human resource compliance audits had a positive and significant influence on employee performance. It was, therefore, established that a unit increase in compliance audit would lead to the subsequent increase in employee performance by 0.178 units. The study established that 61.6% variation in employee performance was caused by human resource audit. The study findings will be useful for policy-making in public and private universities and form a basis for future studies by contributing to the pool of existing literature. The study recommended that universities should plan for compliance audits at least twice per year. It was also recommended that the university should put in place relevant internal control measures that will help in tracking each employee.<p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/soc/0011/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>