Browsing by Author "Namono, Rehema"

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    Driving environmental sustainability in Uganda’s manufacturing industry : the role of managerial discretion.
    (Vilakshan - XIMB Journal of Management, 2026) Iragaba, Annet Bakunzi; Namono, Rehema; Nangoli, Sudi; Musenze, Ibrahim Abaasi
    Purpose – Despite the recognition of environmental sustainability in the manufacturing sector, limited research has explored the role of decision-making autonomy and internal organizational factors in influencing sustainability practices, particularly within the context of Uganda’s manufacturing industry. This study aims to fill this gap by investigating how decision-making autonomy and internal organizations enhance environmental sustainability practices, including resource efficiency, waste management and pollution control, in manufacturing firms in Uganda. Design/methodology/approach – This study adopted a cross-sectional research design and used hierarchical regression analysis to assess the relationships among decision-making autonomy, internal organizational factors and environmental sustainability practices. Findings – Decision-making autonomy has a significant positive impact on the adoption of environmental sustainability practices. Internal organizational factors, including organizational culture and resource availability, also positively affect sustainability practices, although their influence is weaker than that of decision-making autonomy. Research limitations/implications – The study adopted a cross-sectional research design, which limits the ability to establish causal relationships between decision-making autonomy, organizational factors and environmental sustainability practices. Originality/value – This study highlights the importance of granting managers decision-making autonomy as a strategy for promoting environmental sustainability practices. It also underscores the need for manufacturing firms, especially in developing countries such as Uganda, to focus on strengthening internal organizational factors, such as organizational culture and resource allocation, to foster sustainable practices. Keywords Decision-making autonomy, Environmental sustainability, Organizational factors, Manufacturing sector, Uganda, Managerial discretion
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    Managerial discretion and corporate social responsibility among manufacturing firms in Uganda : a relative importance.
    (Wohllebe & Ross, 2026) Bakunzi, Annet Iragaba; Musenze, Ibrahim Abaasi; Nangoli, Sudi; Namono, Rehema
    Corporate social responsibility is key for firm sustainability since. The currenmt study seeks to establish the influence of managerial discretion on corporate social responsibility. Specific dimensions of managerial discretion that most powerfully drive Corporate social responsibility are not empirically tested. Prior studies treat managerial discretion as a composite, unidimensional construct, thereby obscuring which specific dimension of decision-making autonomy or internal organizational factors exerts the greatest influence on CSR. Using Relative Weights Analysis, this study examined the dimension-specific effects of managerial discretion on corporate social responsibility. A cross-sectional quantitative survey design was adopted. Data were collected from 314 medium and large manufacturing firms in Uganda using a structured self-administered questionnaire. Hierarchical regression analysis tested the dimension-specific hypotheses, and Relative Weights Analysis (RWA) was subsequently employed to determine the precise proportional contribution of each managerial discretion dimension to total CSR variance. Both dimensions of managerial discretion positively and significantly predicted CSR. Hierarchical regression results established decision-making autonomy as the stronger predictor (ß =.583, p < .001) relative to internal organizational factors (ß = .354, p < .001). RWA results corroborated and refined these findings: decision-making autonomy accounted for the larger proportion of explained CSR variance (RW = 58.2%, rescaled), while internal organizational factors contributed 41.8%. This study makes a dual methodological and substantive contribution. Methodologically, it is among the first studies in the managerial discretion-CSR literature to apply RWA. The study also generates dimension specific empirical evidence from manufacturing firms in a developing-country African context where evidence on the differential importance of managerial discretion dimensions for CSR is not yet tested. Keywords: Managerial Discretion, Corporate Social Responsibility, Relative Weights Analysis
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    Perceived organizational support, self-efficacy and work engagement: testing for the interaction effects
    (Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020) Musenze, Abaasi Ibrahim; Mayende, Sifuna Thomas; Kalenzi, Abbey; Namono, Rehema
    Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship of the interaction effect of perceived organizational support (POS) and self-efficacy (SE) with work engagement (WE) within the primary education industry. Design/methodology/approach – The paper relies on structural equation modeling (SEM) with AMOS (V.22) to test and resolve the conditional hypothesis that fusion of POS and SE is necessary for WE. Findings – The scale of effect of POS on WE depends on SE; hence, the assumption of nonadditivity is achieved. Precisely, the interaction of POS and SE is necessary for WE. Research limitations/implications – The study was based on a single research methodological approach, namely quantitative research methodology, which could have been affected the outcome of this investigation. Future studies could investigate WE interaction model through qualitative lens in order to provide a triangulation opportunity. Moreover, the findings from the current study are cross-sectional, and data were collected at a snapshot. Therefore, future research should consider the multiplicative effects studied in this paper across time. Practical implications – Attempts to heighten WE levels, among government primary school teachers in Uganda, would require that management regularly ventures into finding a more practical and feasible fusion of POS with SE in order to provide significant levels of WE among employees of primary education industry. Originality/value – This is the first study that tests the interactive effects of POS and SE on WE in Uganda’s primary education industry. Keywords Perceived organization support, Work engagement, Self-efficacy