Abstract: A project is as good as the quality of leaders behind it. Project managers are very crucial in the design, development and implementation of a project. To work effectively on his day-to-day tasks, the project manager has to be well equipped with skills to enable him attain project success. Project implementation is crucial to survival of a company or organization, well-implemented projects are able to satisfy the customer and stakeholders wants and enhance the competitiveness of the organisation. This has prompted companies in the tea sector to embrace product diversification from the traditional black tea by embracing speciality teas and this require construction of new plants and installation of machinery to process it. To manage the many projects in tea industry, firms have incorporated project management skills as a means of increasing their success rate in implementation of projects, but despite this awareness, projects do fail. Therefore, this study sought to investigate the influence of stakeholder management skills on implementation of speciality tea projects in Kericho County, Kenya. A descriptive research design was embraced with target population being speciality tea projects in Kericho County where 21 projects were targeted. The unit of observation was project managers, assistant managers, engineers, general staff and supervisors working in the projects. A population of 462 individuals was targeted. The research used census to obtain a representative sample from different groups in the target population. The Statistical package SPSS was used in data analysis. Descriptive statistics which includes standard deviation, frequencies, means and percentages and inferential statistics with multiple regressions were applied in data analysis. The study established that stakeholder management skills had a positive significant influence on speciality tea projects implementation in Kericho County, Kenya. The study concludes that the Tea companies should make sure that all pertinent parties are informed about decisions pertaining to the projects that the company is working on. The study recommends that the Tea companies needs to identify and categorize the pertinent internal and external stakeholders.
Keywords: Stakeholder Management Skills, Project Implementation.
Title: INFLUENCE OF STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT SKILLS ON IMPLEMENTATION OF SPECIALITY TEA PROJECTS IN KERICHO COUNTY, KENYA
Author: Stephen Kananda Mithamo, Dr. Josphat Kyalo
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
Vol. 12, Issue 2, April 2024 - June 2024
Page No: 88-95
Research Publish Journals
Website: www.researchpublish.com
Published Date: 03-May-2024
