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Title/Qualifications: Dr/ PhD Business Administration(HRM) |
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Dr Peter Philip Wambua has researched and published several articles in internationally refereed journals in the fields of performance assessment, performance contracting, service delivery, work motivation and satisfaction, reward systems and employee performance, customer purchase decisions, organizational resources and strategic plans, employee retentions, human resource development mechanisms and organizational outcomes, strategic leadership practices and reforms implementation, organization social practice and performance, talent management and organization performance, E-recruitment system on performance, women’s livelihoods and promotional schemes influence on employee performance among many others. In 2017 Dr Wambua and other consultants from Kenyatta University won a competitive bid to review Rwanda Correctional Service Curriculum, carry out a Training Needs Assessment and Training of Trainers. In 2020 he participated in writing a grant proposal to Bill and Melinda on women economic empowerment which was successfully won and thereafter launched and housed at the KU WEE HUB. He is a researcher in Tharaka Nithi on the subtheme of Female Labor Force Participation. He and other researchers have applied for several other grants through the support of Kenyatta University in respective areas which have however not been successful. These includes; Women’s Economic Empowerment, Gender Equality and Economic Development in Kenyan Selected Counties(NRF-2016);Enhancing youth economic livelihoods through drug and substance literacy in Machakos County, Kenya(CODE-2022); Strengthening childcare models that advance women’s economic power (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 2023). In the year 2014 Dr Wambua received Best lecturer Award Kenyatta University. On administrative matters in Kenyatta University Dr.Wambua is an Examination Coordinator in the School of Business, Economics and Tourism. Previously he has served as an Examinations Coordinator in the department of security and correctional sciences as well as the Coordinator Kitui Campus. In addition, he has served in several departmental and school committees (relating to review of academic programmes,MOU’s and curriculum,).He served as a thematic lecturer in Arusha Campus. He successfully facilitated an MoU between Kenyatta University and Futurize in which was signed by the Vice-Chancellor in 2023. On the 26 th July 2024 he was appointed as a member of editorial board Eminent Corporate Academy.He has - 2 - participated in the IBRIC as a committee member and in the 6 th IBRIC 2024 he was the editor in chief. Dr Wambua facilitated an MOU between Kenyatta University and EnergyNet which was signed by the Vice-Chancellor, Kenyatta University and the Group Director, EnergyNet on the 16 th September 2024 and thereafter implemented by successfully holding the Youth Energy Summit(YES) on the 11 th October 2024 at Kenyatta University.On the 25 October 2024 he mobilized students through KUBSA and Business Administration Department to attend the SEED GLOBAL Campus education tour at Kenyatta University. This tour brought an interaction of staff and students with academic representatives from global leading universities of Illinois Gies College of Business(USA),The George Washington University(USA),Bocconi University(Milan, Italy) and PennState Smeal College of Business (USA). On 20 th November 2024 with approval of the vice-chancellor and as the patron of the Kenyatta University Business Students Association (KUBSA), he mobilized students and other stakeholders alongside the officials to attend and participate in Women in Business and Leadership Conference, themed “Breaking Barriers, Building Leaders,” held in Room 149 at the BSSC building. On 22 nd November 2024 with the approval of the vice-chancellors office Dr.Peter Philip Wambua (Department of Business Administration) and Dr. Lucy Mengany (Department of Medical Surgery) led a team of five students undertaking various degree programs in Kenyatta University to attend and participate in the heathtech summit and demo day at ALX,Nairobi, Kenya. Dr. Wambua participates in community services within and outside the university. He is the Patron of Kenyatta University Business Students Association as well as mentor of several students. Dr Wambua has also donated several books to Kenyatta University Library, Kenya Military Academic, Several Secondary Schools and Churches. He has also participated in the preparation of an MOU between Kenyatta University and Kenya Prisons Staff Training College. He the founder of Zero to One (NGO) and is a motivational speaker on; discovering your potential, life skills, living values, career choices and how to prepare for and pass examinations. He is a board member of ACK Mukengesya Secondary School and ABC Kathithyamaa Secondary School. Dr.Wambua has supervised extensively masters students in human resource management, strategic management as well as security management. He has successfully guided six PhD students and currently handling others. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS ATTENDED
ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS
BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS Philip Wambua Peter et al; Innovative Water Finance in Africa. Economics and Principles of Financial Innovations for Water Managers: Chapters 2,3 and 7; Palgrave Macmillan; Springer Nature Switzerland AG Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland; ISBN 978-3-031-38233-8 ISBN 978-3-031-38234-5 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38234-5. Peter Philip Wambua; Towards One; Evangel Publishing House; ISBN 978-9914-700-77-0. Annastacia Kiloko Nzau and Philip Wambua; Effect of Motivation on Performance of Private Primary School Teachers in Machakos County Kenya; Book Chapter Beyond Agency. Voice and Space in Africa’s Development. Centre for Democracy, Research and Development(CEDRED), Nairobi; ISBN 978-9966-1933-2-2. Joy A. Obando et al. Performance Assessment and Evaluation of Community Participation in Water Sector Governance The case of Ngaciuma-Kinyaritha catchment, Mount Kenya Region; Book Chapter in Agricultural Water Institutions in East Africa. The Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala University, Sweden; ISSN 0280-2171 ISBN 978-91-7106-777-7 Peter Philip Wambua et al; Competitive Farming Strategies and their Effect on Water Provision and Profitability among Smallholder Farms The Case of Muooni Dam Site, Kenya; Book Chapter in Agricultural Water Institutions in East Africa. The Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala University, Sweden; ISSN 0280-2171 ISBN 978-91-7106-777-7 |
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