dc.contributor.author | Nyaoro, Boaz A | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-11-26T14:42:05Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-11-26T14:42:05Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013-10 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Degree Of Master Of Business Administration | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/60550 | |
dc.description | A Research Project Submitted In Partial Fulfillment Of The Requirements For The Degree Of Master Of Business Administration, University Of Nairobi. | en |
dc.description.abstract | The environment in which organizations exist, whether for profit or not is very
competitive, turbulent and highly unpredictable. Due to that dynamism organizations
need to recognize strategic planning as one good way to develop and implement
strategies that would give each business unit a competitive edge. Excellent performance
of an organization is a prerequisite for the achievement of the organization’s long-term
goals. For organizations to be able to achieve this, they have to incorporate a strategic
framework into operational activities that are aimed at identifying and addressing specific
issues. The ability of organizations to survive and prosper in the face of current
environmental realities will depend on its ability to define its objective and strategies
clearly. The purpose of this study was to determine the strategic planning practices
adopted by community based organizations in Rarieda sub-county. A census survey
methodology was employed in this study where the targeted population were the 15
community based organizations in the sub-county. A questionnaire was developed and
personally administered to the chairmen and their secretaries in these CBOs. Data
analysis was based on descriptive statistics. Strategic planning practices are very vital for
the functioning of any organization. Therefore, the management of community units
should come up with strategic plans and also put in place adequate mechanism for
tackling challenges facing the community units in the development of the strategies and
for successful implementation of the same. The study found that the practices adopted by
the CBOs were vision and mission statements, formulation of compelling guidelines,
environmental scanning through competitor analysis, trend analysis and evaluations. The
study recommends that all CBOs should adopt policy to involve the views of all members
in the strategic planning practice as it was established that only 30% of the organizations
involved all members in the strategic planning process. The study also recommends that
the organizations should adopt a practice of communicating to the stakeholder on the
steps taken in the strategic planning process. This will be important because the study
established that communication was done to a moderate extent. The study also
recommends that the organizations adopt a practice of negotiating with the donors willing
to fund the Strategic Planning process. This will be important because the study
established that it was only done to a moderate extent. The study was limited to studying
the strategic planning practices adopted in the CBOs in Rarieda Sub-County. The study
did not explore the extent to which the strategic planning practices were adopted or the
extent to which they affected performance. The study suggests that in future, researchers
should assess the extent to which strategic planning practices are adopted in the
organizations or the degree to which their adoption affected performance of the
organizations. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | University of Nairobi | en |
dc.title | Strategic Planning Practices Adopted by Community Based Organizations in Rarieda Sub-county, Kenya | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |
local.publisher | School of Business | en |