Influence of Human Capital Development on Organizational Change in the Petroleum Industries in Kenya

Abstract

Organizations are advised to invest long term capacity development which builds new skills to their workforce to cope with the uncertain conditions that they may face in future while improving the employee performance through superior level of motivation and commitment and building required achieve organizational overall competence level. Therefore the current paper sought to examine the influence of human capital development on organization change in the petroleum industries in Kenya. Descriptive research design was adopted. Simple and cluster sampling were used to select a sample of 234 respondents. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyse the data. Results of the study revealed positive and significant influence of human capital development on organization change in the petroleum industries in Kenya.

Keywords: Human Capital Development, Organization Change.