FACTORS AFFECTING FUND MANAGEMENT: THE CASE OF INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS

Abstract

This study examines the factors affecting fund management practice, factors such as technical factors, factors attribute to donor behavior and managerial factors. The research sample is 47 employees of International Medical Corps. The researcher also collected quantitative and qualitative data from the company employees using structured questioners and different secondary documents from literatures. On the analysis of the relationships between the factors affecting fund management practice and fund management practice, a series of OLS regressions were run. All the above were aimed at achieving identifying the relationship between dependent variables and independent variables. The main findings are as follows. The data was analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS) version 27 to assist the researcher in answering the research questions. Descriptive and inferential statics were used for analysis of the research data. The descriptive statics part was analyzed using mean and standard deviation whereas correlation and regression were used from inferential statics. Descriptive statistics aimed to summarize the data set while inferential statistics including correlation and regression analysis used the data collected to make conclusions on the whole population under study. The findings of the study established that there is positive and significant relationship between fund management practice a dependent variables and technical factors and managerial factors and attribute for donor behavior (r=0.411, .709 & 0.529, n=47, p=.000) as P 005. The study also revealed that the three key factors: technical factors, factors attribute to donors’ behaviors and managerial factors have significant effect on fund management practice. The study recommends that IMC must work towards improvements that will make the three crucial factors that determines the fund management practice.