Abstract: Myriad of organizations are faced with the seemingly intractable task of strategy implementation notwithstanding their experience and previous successes. The challenge to translate the strategies and plans into action and successfully implementation is common to both large corporation and small and medium enterprise. However, it is possible to translate the established strategies and plans into individual and team action necessary to provide a successful strategy implementation. The general objective of the study was to analyse the influence of strategic management practice on strategy implementation in Kiambu county government. The study was guided by the following specific: to determine the influence of Strategy operationalization as a strategic management practice on strategy implementation, to examine the influence of strategy evaluation and control system as a strategic management practice on strategy implementation, to determine the influence of strategy planning as a strategic management practice on strategy implementation and to establish the influence of situation analysis as a strategic management practice on strategy implementation in Kiambu County. The theories that were used for the study were stakeholder theory, strategy fit theory, resource dependency theory, Mckinsey. To realize this objective, a survey research design was adopted. The target population of the study constituted Kiambu county government top level management from which the target population was 86 with a sample size of 43 respondents were identified through stratified sampling which constitutes 50% of the target population. Primary data was collected from the members of County Assembly, County public service, County Executive Committee and the chief officers of various departments using a combination of questionnaires and structured interviews. A fact sheet was used to summarize the data collected before analyzed using statistical package for social science (SPSS) to obtain descriptive statistics; data collected was presented in the form of frequency tables.
Keywords: Situation Analysis, Strategy Planning, Strategy Operationalization, Strategy Evaluation And Control.
Title: INFLUENCE OF STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PRACTICES ON STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION IN KENYAN COUNTIES: A CASE STUDY OF KIAMBU COUNTY
Author: Kelvin Kamau Wagikondi, Jane Omwenga
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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