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European Journal of Economic and Financial Research ISSN: 2501-9430 ISSN-L: 2501-9430 Available on-line at: http://www.oapub.org/soc Volume 2 │ Issue 3 │ 2017 doi: 10.5281/zenodo.888077 INFLUENCE OF WORKING ENVIRONMENT ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE IN THE KENYA POLICE SERVICE Fredrick Mwirigi1i, Abel Moguche1, Eunice Kirimi2 School of Business and Economics, 1 Kenya Methodist University, Kenya Dr., School of Business and Economics, 2 Kenya Methodist University, Kenya Abstract: Police service employees are extremely crucial to the country since their value is essentially intangible and not easily replicated. Kenya police service employees have been complaining of career growth and opportunity, better compensation, structured induction programs, performance management tools, equitable compensation packages, job satisfaction and good leadership skills were found to influence their decision to stay with their current employer. The objective of this study was to establish the influence of working environment on organizational performance in the Kenya Police Service. The study was carried out in the police services using Lakipia Police Divisional Headquarters. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The target population of the study was 86 disciplined uniformed officers who work in the Laikipia Police Division headquarters. The researcher conducted a census of all the respondents from the Laikipia Police Division headquarter. Descriptive statistics which includes frequencies and percentages were used to analyze data. The study used Pearson correlation analysis to test the hypothesis and the p-value from test statistic. The study concludes that working environment is one of the key issues in the world’s Kenya police service. The study recommends that the governments should ensure that police officers are given proper working tools and equipment to improve their performance. The police department should professionally come up with a practical scheme of service Copyright © The Author(s). All Rights Reserved. © 2015 – 2017 Open Access Publishing Group 191 Fredrick Mwirigi, Abel Moguche, Eunice Kirimi INFLUENCE OF WORKING ENVIRONMENT ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE IN THE KENYA POLICE SERVICE and policies that ensures that there is no conflicting policies in the police organization structure. JEL: J81, D23 Keywords: influence, organizational performance, Kenya police service 1. Introduction In the current dynamic labour market and competitive business environment, there is need for a strategic human resource planning which enables an organization adopt various flexible patterns of employment, within the context of an organization politics in terms of recruitment, retention, motivation, and training, in order to effect an efficient movement and distribution of employees. The concept of manpower planning has become of necessity to many organizations, given the fact that organizations are becoming larger with each day, and thus planning for their labour force has become more complicated (Mungumi, 2012). Freeman (2010) argues that there are major reasons for analyzing working environment in order to reduce the working environment. The organization must know current levels of turnover before it can decide whether steps need to be taken to reduce this rate. Objective measurement is essential if the cost of working environment is to be calculated accurately. In his study, Freeman (2010) noted that working environment will influence forecasting of the human resources in the organization and future staffing and recruitment and this needs to be estimated reliably in order to account will need to be taken of past levels of working environment. Kenya police was legally constituted in 1906 by a police ordinance and the office of Inspector General established. The year 1926 saw the formation of the Criminal Intelligent Unit and the Railway Police Unit while in 1946 another police training depot was established. General Service Unit was later to be established in the year 1948 for rapid deployment. During the same year police training school was transferred from Nairobi, deport to Kiganjo its present site. The same year saw new Police Act brought into being. A year later in 1949 police Air wing to support communication and casualty evacuation was established. A dozen other specialized police units have since emerged. For downloading the full article, please access the following link: https://oapub.org/soc/index.php/EJEFR/article/view/190 European Journal of Economic and Financial Research - Volume 2 │ Issue 3 │ 2017 192