The Influence Of Strategic Implementation Practices On Students’ Academic Performance In Public Secondary Schools, Kieni East Sub County

Abstract

The study’s intent was to establish how strategic planning implementation practices impact academic performance of secondary schools in Kieni East sub-county. Four objectives guided the research; to establish how school culture impacts students’ performance, to determine how strategic communication impacts students’ academic performance, to examine how strategic resource allocation impacts students’ performance and to access how strategic leadership influence students’ academic performance. The study used descriptive cross section survey targeting 31 school principals and 527 members of the board. The sample size was made up to 31 school principals and 228 members of the board. Data in this study was analyzed using SPSS. From the study, it was found that school culture influence students’ academic performance positively, there is commitment among most teachers to ensure strategies are successful, proper communication is maintained between the management and teachers’ and a positive attitude maintained in the strategic implementation process. The finding also illustrates that strategic resources allocation influence student academic performance positively. Also, the development of policies embracing the vision and mission should be done together with the drive to implement new strategies. The following recommendations were made; that strategic implementation practices should be more vibrant in promoting innovative culture, the policy makers should encourage both bottom up and top down communication channel, strategic resources allocation should be encouraged that is resources should be allocated where they are needed most and that policy makers should ensure that top positions are occupied by leaders who can carry the vision of the school