Abstract: The objective of the study was to determine whether organizational structure influence the relationship between strategic leadership and service delivery of County Governments in Kenya. The findings would aid the audit, review and strengthening of existing policies aimed at ensuring good ethical practices in public entities. The relevant theories reviewed for this study was the institutional theory. This study used a positivism research philosophy. The study used a cross sectional survey. The target population for the study was drawn from the 47 Counties in Kenya as per 2010 constitution. The study used both primary and secondary data which were collected using questionnaires, interviews and desk review. Data analysis took place at two levels – descriptive statistics level and inferential statistics level. To test the study hypothesis, simple and multiple linear regressions were used. Multiple regression analysis was carried out to predict the dependent variable given the independent variable. P-value was used to check for significance of individual variables in the regression equations, whereby a relationship was considered to be statistically significant if the p-value was ≤ 0.05. The study found that organizational structure has a significant influence on the relationship between strategic leadership and service delivery of the county governments in Kenya. The positive effects have higher contributions to the service delivery and this implies that county officers should concentrate not only on monitoring the ethical behaviours but also on building on the areas that impact on service delivery including better structure. This should form the basis of how organizational structure has to be observed by the counties if it has to succeed.
Keywords: Strategic leadership, Organizational structure, Ethical practices and Service delivery.
Title: THE ROLE OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE DELIVERY OF COUNTY GOVERNMENTS IN KENYA
Author: Nyaberi, Justry P. Lumumba
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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