COYA Objectives
Introduction
The Kenya Institute of Management organizes the annual Company of Year Awards (COYA), which is an exercise whose objective is to identify and publicly recognize companies and managers who demonstrate excellence and integrity in management practices. The event in 2005 was the sixth event since inception. Every year is always better than the previous due to the continuous improvement programmes put in place especially on the assessment tool.Identify and publicly recognize companies that demonstrate excellence and integrity in their management practices
- To develop local case studies and successful business models for future management studies
- To provide a benchmark for assessing management practices
- To improve management practices in Kenya through bench marking
- To provide appropriate positive publicity for the participating companies
- Provide forums for participants to share good and proven management practices
Awards for 2005
The categories awarded in 2005 included:
- Supply chain management award
- The Company of the Year Award, 1st and 2nd Runner-ups
- SME of the Year Award, 1st and 2nd Runner-ups
- Parastatal of the Year Award
- The 9 Management categories for both manufacturing and services sectors
- Corporate Planning
- Marketing Management
- Human Resource Management
- Information Technology
- Quality Management
- Creativity & Innovation
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Financial Management
- Environmental Management
- CEO of the Year Award.
- Manager of the Year Award, 1st Runner-ups
- Investor of the Year Award
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