A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES INFLUENCING PERFORMANCE IN PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES (CASE STUDY OF UNIVERSITIES IN NAIROBI C.B.D)

It is a common phenomenon for all organizations to put more emphasis on good management practices that most impacts on employee’s motivation and subsequent performance. This has to be done in cognizance of the prevailing environmental factors such as colleagues, who influences to a great extent their error rate, level of innovation and collaboration with other employees, absenteeism and, ultimately, the labour turnover. The Study was confined within the public universities in Nairobi Central business District, Kenya. Study employed a descriptive research design. The target population for this study was employees of public universities in Nairobi County at top, middle and lower level of management. This is a group that was thought to give the best and most reliable results on the analysis of human resource management practices that influences organization performance. Stratified random sampling was used to select the population from which a sample 160 respondents was drawn. Data was collected mainly by use of questionnaires. SPSS was used to generate the statistical outputs. The study found that recruitment and selection, training and development, reward management an