Strategic Management Practices Adopted By Public Benefit Organizations In Homa Bay County, Kenya
Abstract
The objective of this study was to determine the strategic management practices adopted
by Public Benefit Organizations in Homa Bay County, Kenya. The study employed
descriptive research design. The researcher collected both primary and secondary data
.Primary data was collected by use of semi-structured questionnaires that had both closed
and open ended questions. The target respondents were the senior managers and
Coordinators heading PBOs in the County. Secondary data was collected from
publications and documents from the PBOs and the PBO Coordination board. The
documents collected included minutes of meetings, mission and vision statements, past
studies, reports, financial statements among others. The Population comprised 496 public
benefit organizations operating in Homa Bay County and are registered by the PBOs
coordination Board. The study sample size of 217 was developed using Simple random
sampling technique upon which 168 Organizations returned the questionnaires giving a
response rate of 77.41. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was applied in
analyzing the data and tables were used to summarize responses for further analysis and
comparison. The study findings indicated that the majority of the PBOs in Homa Bay
County have adopted some form of Strategic management practices. Nonetheless,
strategic management seems not to have been prioritized in majority of the organizations
because a good number of PBOs do not have designated departments to coordinate
strategic issues. It also came out clearly from the study that the international PBOs
organizations were largely more active and aware of the strategic management practices
than local PBOs.The researcher concludes that PBOs have largely complied with all the
five steps of strategic management: Crafting of vision and mission statements ,
Situational analysis, Strategy formulation, Strategy implementation and Strategy
evaluation. There was notable active participation of all the relevant stakeholders in
strategic management processes, this was critical in ensuring that the strategies are
popular, are well owned and everyone plays a role in ensuring that it is implemented as
its critical for organizations success. The study recommends that there is need to have
designated personnel or department to manage the strategic Management activities in the
PBOs in Homa Bay County. Secondly ,there is need to formalize the strategic
management processes within the organizational setup so that they are not done
haphazardly and thirdly, Strategic management should be a practice informed by its
anticipated benefits and needs of the organization and not as a compliance issue or donor
requirement.
Publisher
University of Nairobi