Effect of Performance Coaching on Employee Performance: A Case of Tetra Pak Limited, Kenya

Abstract

Employee performance is important in determining a firm’s capacity to confer sustainable competitive advantage and high performing employees are those who improve firm’s performance. Despite the value attributed to employees’ performance on the overall firm performance, there is an increased decline of individual employee performance in public sector globally and even locally. The purpose of this study was to establish the effect of performance coaching on employee performance of Tetra Pak Limited, Kenya. A descriptive survey design was used and target population was 150 employees in Tetra Pak Limited. A sample of 108 respondents was selected using stratified random sampling technique. Structured questionnaires were used to collect primary data. Descriptive statistics (frequencies, percentages, means and standard deviations) and inferential statistics (correlation and regression) were generated. The results indicated that job coaching has a positive and significant effect on employee performance (r =.696^**, P = 0.000). Based on the findings, the study concluded that coaching practices have a positive and meaningful effect on employee performance in Tetra Pak limited, Kenya. The study, therefore, recommends that Tetra Pak limited should strengthen performance coaching related aspects including programs that support employees in identification of their interests and skills, as well as providing opportunities for employees to identify and develop new abilities in order to boost employees’ performance.