Strategy Implementation Challenges in the Devolved Government Units: Case of Mombasa County, Kenya
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Date
2015-10Author
Gaogallo, Abdi W
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Strategy implementation is the translation of chosen strategy into organizational
action so as to achieve strategic goals and objectives. Strategy implementation is also
defined as the manner in which an organization should develop, utilize, and
amalgamate organizational structure, control systems, and culture to follow strategies
that lead to better performance for organizations. Organizational structure allocates
special value developing tasks and roles to the employees and states how these tasks
and roles can be correlated so as maximize efficiency, quality, and customer
satisfaction. But, organizational structure is not sufficient in itself to motivate the
employees. An organizational control system is also required. This control system
equips managers with motivational incentives for employees as well as feedback on
employees and organizational performance. Organizational culture refers to the
specialized collection of values, attitudes, norms and beliefs shared by organizational
members and groups. Strategy implementation also involves allocation of resources,
establishing of structure, assigning responsibilities to achieve organizational goal and
objectives. Excellently formulated strategies will fail if they are not properly
implemented, also it is essential to note that strategy implementation is not possible
unless there is stability between strategy and each organizational dimension such as
organizational structure, reward structure and resource-allocation process. Many
organizations formulate very good strategic plan but few succeed in its
implementations due to various challenges. Devolution of governance is considered as
one of the most effective solutions to social challenges that countries encounter from
time to time. It is of equal significance that devolved functions are adequately
implemented. The objective of the study was to establish the strategy implementation
challenges in Mombasa County government. The study employed a case study design.
The researcher collected primary data using an interview guide. The data collection
procedure had had two stages; the pilot study and the administration of research
instruments for data collection. The pilot study helped the researcher in ascertaining
the validity of the data collection instrument. After necessary adjustments were made
on the instrument, permission was sought from the County government to carry out
the study. The chief officers were targeted in the interview. A total of 10 respondents
were targeted. From the findings, it can be concluded that the strategy
implementation challenges in Mombasa county government include human resource
challenges, inadequate financial resources, lack of adequate control and evaluation
measures, leadership and poor coordination, ineffective communication, socio cultural
factors and political factors. The researcher recommends the need to enforce
appropriate policies to ensure that smooth strategy implementation is attained. The
study further recommends that all the employees should also be provided with a
sound understanding of the requirements of the county strategic plan before
embarking on full implementation. The county Governments should ensure that there
are sufficient resources for the implementation activities to be realized successfully.
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University of Nairobi