| dc.description.abstract | Effective strategy implementation is the recipe for an organization success. However
implementations of strategic plans by organizations are often faced with numerous
challenges over the recent years. Some of the challenges include lack of adequate
funds to spearhead the plans to completion, lack of team work among staff, poor
organization culture, inadequate time allocation for implementing the plans, resistance
to change by staff, lack of trained personnel, communication failure, ever changing
Government policies among others. The management of organizations are tasked with
the responsibility of ensuring that the organization achieve its strategic objectives by
understanding the environment both external and internal to deal with the threats and
exploit opportunities. The study sought to establish challenges of strategy
implementation by private hospitals in Nairobi County. The objectives of the study
were to establish the challenges that private hospitals experience in attempt to
implement their strategic plans and also to identify the responses they put in places to
those challenges. 25 respondents from each hospital were interviewed among them
hospital administrators, chief executive officers, directors, managers and human
resource managers. The study targeted all the hospitals and their responses can be
used for analysis. The study found that lack of trained personnel to implement
strategic plans, inadequate funding for the plans and that the ever changing
Government policies were a key hindrance to effective implementation of the plans.
In view of these challenges, the study established that sourcing of funds; continuous
training of the staff on strategic objectives, having hospital meetings between top
management and the employees, effective communication within the hospital and
restructuring of the hospitals were some of the responses that the private hospitals had
put in place to deal with the implementation challenges. | en |
