Organisational Culture - Strategy Alignment and Effective Strategy Implementation among the County Governments in Kenya

Abstract

The study is about organizational culture strategy alignment and the effective strategy implementation among the county governments in Kenya. The objective of the study was to determine the effects of Organizational culture strategy alignment on the effectiveness of strategy implementation among the county governments in Kenya. Competing Value theory framework, Resource-Based View theory and Stakeholder theory guided the study and past studies were reviewed on the topic to bring out the research gap. The study employed descriptive cross-sectional survey research design. The target population of the study was 47 counties in accordance with the Constitution of Kenya (2010). The county secretaries and other county officials were identified as key respondents. Primary data was collected using structured questionnaires that were either hand delivered or emailed to the target respondents. Quantitative data obtained was cleaned, coded and analyzed using excel spreadsheet and statistical Package for Social Scientists (SPSS) software version 20. Results were summarized into tables with frequencies, percentages, mean and standard deviation. A correlation analysis was used to determine the relationship between organizational cultural orientations variables and effective strategy implementation variables and findings indicated that there was a strong statistically significant relationship between most of the variables. In light of the results, the study recommends the county governments in Kenya to make Organizational Culture-Strategy alignment a priority during strategy formulation as well as during strategy implementation. The counties should consider culture change and embrace values that are consistent with their Organizational and strategic goals. County leadership must also cast the right shadows and ensure that policies, procedures and decision rights support the advocated values. The study further recommends that counties provide for preventive measures against barriers that may arise in the course of implementation of the county plans especially during strategy formulation.