DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2018.v06i04.004

Pages: 812-819

This study paper is a report on the investigation of how county governments recruitment and selection policies influence employee performance in Kenya. The unit of study was County governments in Kenya. A descriptive design was employed in the form of a survey. The target population comprised all the county employees at the level of middle, senior and above in the 47 counties in Kenya, with estimated total employees of 58,617. Simple random sampling technique was used to sample the counties to be used in the study. Consequently, six counties were sampled for participation based on demographic and geographic characteristics of the county. Stratified random sampling technique was used to sample individual study respondents, numbering 224 in total distributed accordingly among the counties of study.