Strategic Implementation and Organizational Performance in Kenya Rural Roads Authority in Mount Kenya Region
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Resource Allocation, Leadership, Communication, Culture, Organizational Performance and Kenya Rural Roads AuthorityAbstract
Purpose: The study examined strategic implementation and organizational performance in Kenya Rural Roads Authority Mount Kenya region. The objectives of the study comprised of examining the influence of resource allocation, leadership, communication and culture on organizational performance of Kenya Rural Roads Authority. The study was anchored on the following theories: Theory of resource allocation, Transformational leadership theory, Adaptive structuration theory, Organizational culture theory, and Resource based view theory.
Methodology: A descriptive research design was employed in the study. The target population comprised of 147 managers from Kenya Rural Roads Authority operating in Mount Kenya Region. A census was utilized where all the managers were included in the study. The study employed 5-point Likert scale questionnaires to gather data from the respondents. Both inferential and descriptive statistics were employed in analysing the collected data. Descriptive statistics comprised of means, standard deviation and average while inferential statistics comprised of correlation and regression analysis. The results of the analysis was displayed in form of tables and figures.
Findings: The study established that of resource allocation, leadership, communication and culture bears a positive and significant influence on organization performance of Kenya Rural Roads Authority. This is depicted by beta values of 0.439, 0.354, 0.246 and 0.173 and significance values of 0.000, 0.000, 0.003, and 0.012 respectively. The results implies that increasing either resource allocation, leadership, communication or culture with one unit results to increase in levels of organizational performance with respective better unit of the independent variable. The study concluded that strategic implementation bears a positive and significant influence on organizational performance of Kenya Rural Roads Authority.
Unique contribution to theory, practice and policy: It is therefore recommended that strategy managers nurture and avail aspects of resource allocation, leadership, communication, and culture while implementing.
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