| dc.description.abstract | Corporate governance is the framework of rules, relationships, systems and processes within and by which authority is exercised and controlled in corporations. Despite influencing how the objectives of the company are set and achieved, how risk is monitored and assessed, and how performance is optimized, organizations like UCAA have not effectively embraced corporate governance. Therefore, this current study set out to examine how corporate governance through good practices affects performance at Uganda Civil Aviation Authority. The study used a mixed methods research design on a target population of 1442 comprising of the board members, employees of UCAA and some staffs of the local and international scheduled operators (airlines) in Uganda out of which a sample of 313 was drawn using simple random sampling and purposive sampling techniques. Data was collected from 287 respondents by means of a questionnaire supplemented with interviews, and analysis was with the help of inferential and descriptive statistics under Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) examining the effects of the variables i.e. board size and composition, principles of corporate governance and IT governance. The study results under the correlation analysis and regression models showed there was significant relationship between the 3 independent variables and the dependent variable of organizational performance. The correlation indicates that, there is a significant relationship between the variables, moreover there is a positive correlation between board size and composition, and performance of UCAA, principles of corporate governance and performance of UCAA, and IT governance and performance of UCAA since their R values of 0.602, 0.726 and 0.702 respectively fell between -0.5 to -0.1 or 0.5 to 1.0 (Cohen et al., 2014). Therefore, all the three research/alternative hypotheses were accepted. The recommendations given for this study therefore, are to support UCAA strengthen its corporate governance practices in order to improve organizational performance.
Key terms: Corporate governance, board size and composition, information technology governance and organization performance | en_US |
