| dc.description.abstract | Strategy can only impact on the bottom line if it is successfully implemented. Strategic plan and its implementation are the heart and soul of any business organization and operation. It has been proposed that the public sector experiences greater difficulties in regard to implementing reforms and offering of quality services. This study sought to investigate challenges facing implementation of strategies in the Ministry of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security. The objective of the study was to determine the factors influencing strategy implementation in the Ministry of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security and to find out challenges facing strategy implementation at the Ministry of State For Provincial Administration and Internal Security.
For the purposes of this study, the researcher applied a case study. The researcher used both primary and secondary data. Primary data was collected using self-administered interview guide while secondary data will be collected by use of desk search techniques from published reports and other documents. The interview guide had open-ended questions. The target population of this study was 50 staff in the Ministry of Provisional administration who include directors and other staff in the ranks of management such as general manager. The content analysis was used to analyze the respondents' views about the challenges of strategic implementation at the Ministry of provincial Administration, who see qualitative data analysis.
Before processing the responses, the completed interview guide was edited for completeness and consistency. The content analysis was used to analyze the respondents' views about the challenges of strategic implementation at the Ministry of Provincial Administration, who see qualitative data analysis From the findings, the study concludes that strategy implementation in the Ministry Of State For Provincial Administration And Internal Security includes inadequate and limited resources allocation, conflict of interests where some people seek personal gain during implementation, long charms of bureaucratic levels which hinder effective strategy implementations, untimely communication, political interferences and staff and public resistance to change.
The study found that the complexity of the strategy, the need for a longer preparation time and Misappropriation of funds and corruption, emergencies such as post election violence which were hot envisaged challenges surfaces during strategy implementation in the ministry were challenges that surfaced during strategy implementation in the ministry. The study concludes that periodic elections that lead to shift in focus and other factors like changes in leadership, the size of the ministry and poor budgeting systems which do not cater for emergencies, the constant reorganization of the government as new political systems emerges were the competing activities that cause distractions inhibiting strategy
implementation.
The study further found that legal and economic changes in the country like the effects of the new constitution on the future of the ministry, Transfers and postings and climatic and seasonal variations like el-nino, lanina which are beyond control poise a challenge to the implementations of the strategies in the Ministry Of State For Provincial Administration And Internal Security.
The study found that other challenges of strategy implementations includes inadequacy of information systems used to monitor strategy implementation in the ministry due to government failure to adopt Information Technology in communication delaying the communication in the ministry, administration structure and the colonial legacy of the ministry and inadequacy of information systems to monitor strategy implementation in the ministry.
The study recommends that effective communication. Coordination and sharing of responsibilities among implementations, proper training needs for effective implementation, availing finances and empower staff to perform through motivation should be adopted for success of the strategy implementation in the Ministry Of State For Provincial Administration And Internal Security. | en_US |
