Sustainability Business and Its Impact on Project Performance In the mining Industry in Kenya: A case of Tata Chemicals Magadi, Kenya
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Sustainability business is a self-regulating business model that helps a company to be socially accountable to itself, its stakeholders and public. The general objective of the study is to establish the impact of sustainability business on project performance in the mining industry in Kenya. Different theories and literature relating to the study were reviewed and the emerging knowledge gap identified. The research was conducted in the mining industry specifically within Tata Chemicals Magadi Limited (TCML). The target population was 300 respondents from different departments including marketing and supply chain (internally) and externally the population included women and young people. The researcher used stratified random sampling. From the possible 300 target population, stratified random sampling was employed to select a total of 72 sample population. This is 24% of the total population. The method used for data collection was quantitative design where a structured questionnaire was used to get the views. Both qualitative and quantitative process was used to analyze the data that was collected and compute the information using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The findings were presented to the panelists by use of power point presentation. The study recommends that companies should focus on maintaining health and safety of employees as this would minimize the cost of the business that is associated with work place injuries and also enhance productivity. The study also recommends the necessity of equitable treatment of employees. By applying principles of equity, this will enable the mining company create workforces that are accessible to all irrespective of physical ability, cognitive difference or social economic background. It also endorses that a similar study to be conducted on the influence of CSR initiatives on project performance on other industries.
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