Abstract: The general objective of the study was to investigate the influence of organizational culture on strategy implementation in Safaricom’s Smart Home Technology. The research study applied descriptive research design. The target population of this study was 120 top, middle and low level management staffs of Safaricom’s Smart Home Technology department. A sample of 92 was selected from within each group in proportions that each group bears to the study population using Israel method sampling technique. The study used questionnaires as data collection instruments for the research distributed through drop and pick later method. Data collected was purely quantitative and was analyzed by descriptive analysis. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) and MS Excel helped the researcher to describe the data and determine the extent used. The study found out that number of respondents noted that organizational culture has high influence on the implementation of Smart Technologies at Safaricom PLC in Kenya. Majority also recognized that understanding the existing culture in an organization enables one identify the aspects that will aid the strategy implementation while also predicting the effects that these cultural components will have in the execution process.
Keywords: Organizational Culture, Smart Home Technologies, Strategy Implementation.
Title: INFLUENCE OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE ON IMPLEMENTATION OF SMART HOME TECHNOLOGIES AT SAFARICOM IN KENYA
Author: Elaine Ngina Kyalo, Antony Sije
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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