Challenges of strategy implementation faced by the District Headquarters under the economic stumulus programmes in the Kenyan Ministry of Public works
Abstract
Implementing strategy has always been a challenge for organizations across the
industry. Ability to implement strategy is the deciding factor between success and
failure of a company‟s strategy. The main objective of the study was to determine the
challenges of strategy implementation of the Economic Stimulus Programmes (ESP‟s)
in the Ministry of Public Works (MoPW).For this study, the population consisted of
the infrastructural components of the Economic Stimulus Program under the Ministry
of Public Works that were 77 in total. The study sample was divided into eight
stratums comprising of the former provinces in the Country namely: Nairobi; Coast;
North Eastern; Eastern; Central; Rift Valley; Western; and Nyanza. Selection of the
projects within the strata was done through the use of simple random sampling.
Quantitative analysis was used for data analysis. The study revealed that the capital
expenditure in the Ministry comes in the form of projects and during economic
booms; the Ministry has a lot of resources to invest in projects. The study revealed
that delays in projects arose from task assignments that were pushed to various people
and that lack of implementation plans affected the Ministry projects. The study
showed that the Ministry had an overhang of poor policy management and it had a
weak institutional capacity. The research recommends that during planning, more
emphasis should be placed on the implementation. Most of these barriers can be
overcome if they are accounted for during the formulation stage. It is obvious that
many strategic plans fail to realize the anticipated benefits due to problems and
difficulties faced during implementation. A research into the implementation
challenges faced by ESPs in Kenya shows the implications it has on the ESPs as well
as the overall economic implications. Policy makers may use the results of the study
to understand the major challenges that ESPs face in the country and can thus come
up with strategies to avert the challenges as well as use the recommendations to
improve on the future ESPs. This study focused on the challenges of strategic
implementation of the Economic Stimulus Programmes (ESP‟s) in the Ministry of
Public Works in Kenya. The results of this research have added to the scarcely
available information in Kenya on Economic Stimulus Program/ Practice. Future
researchers now have a strong foundation they can rely on in carrying out their
studies. The gap left has also been shown and thus future researchers have been given
a guide on what to pursue. This research has provided useful information for MoPW
management. It has offered them with improvement areas to focus on to enhance the
implementation of ESPs. Identification of these improvement areas may lead to
complete optimization of the ESP programs. The Ministry may have to change its
practice during the implementation phase of the ESP projects by following the given
recommendations in the study.
Publisher
University of Nairobi
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