Abstract: This study analyzes the influence of strategic planning on organization performance a case of East African court of justice. The objectives of the study are; to identify the effects of ethical practices on performance of East African court of justice, to find out the effect of resource allocation on performance of East African Court of Justice and to determine the effect of budgetary control on performance of the East African Court of Justice. The study adopted a descripto-explanatory research design covering a target population of 26 staffs working at EACJ. The study employed both quantitative and qualitative research in its data analysis. Data collected were analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. Descriptive statistics aided in creating frequency distributions and determining variable significance while inferential statistics was used to establish the relationships between the variables under study. The quantitative data generated will be analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Scientists (SPSS) computer programme. The study found out indeed strategic planning influences performance of EACJ. The study concluded that budgetary control has a huge influence to the performance of EACJ due to the fact that it triggers EACJ to develop a defined accounting and finance system that takes responsibility of evaluating finance issues as well as to design appropriate budget control systems so as to ensure proper budgetary control. Budgetary control provide the basis of decision making on planning and execution of EACJ’s resource and it requires deposition of resources such as human resources and financial resources as well as enhances EACJ’s profitability, quality service delivery and therefore customers’ satisfaction. Resource allocation plays a critical role on EACJ’s performance and it is supported by the presence of human resources, financial resources, physical resources, technological resources and organizational capabilities which ultimately influence the accomplishment of overall organizational goal as well as customer gratification. In ethical practices, development of ethics policy, strictly laws and preparation of ethical framework and provision of training on code of conduct to employees are significant ingredients to EACJ’s performance. However the study recommends that EACJ management should conduct SWOT analysis in order to understand their strength and weaknesses as well as opportunities and threats in the external environment, the court should align its organizational structure to match with the corporate goals. Also the employees should be incorporated in the formulation of corporate goals so as to feel an identity with the goals hence a feeling of ownership which will motivate the operatives in implementing the formulated goals.
Keywords: Ethical Practices, Resource Allocation, Budgetary Control, Performance.
Title: THE INFLUENCE OF STRATEGIC PLANNING ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE: A CASE OF EAST AFRICAN COURT OF JUSTICE, ARUSHA TANZANIA
Author: Bigambo Donart Edward, Dr. David Aunga
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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