EMPLOYEE PERCEPTION OF STRATEGIC CHANGE MANAGEMENT AT TOURISM FUND, KENYA
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Employee perception, strategic change management and Tourism FundAbstract
Purpose: The objective of the study was to establish the employee’s perception of strategic change management at Tourism Fund.
Methodology: The study population are all employees of the Tourism Fund (CTDLT) Kenya. The respondents were 100 employees. This formed the population. The collected data was analyzed using quantitative procedures. Quantitative data was analyzed using descriptive statistics. The descriptive statistics involved frequencies, standard deviation and means.
Results: The study findings indicated that the organization had established a sense of urgency in the need of change, it also created the guiding coalition for all employees to follow during the process and the company developed a vision and strategy that can be achieved. Results further revealed that the organization ensured there was good communication strategies for communicating the change vision to all employees, and ensured that all employees were empowered with broad-based action which helped the employees feel empowered to adopt the new changes. The study findings also indicated that the company ensured that it generated short-term wins, consolidated gains and producing more change and anchored new approaches in the culture. This was to ensure that the employees felt as part of the process to make it a success.
Unique contribution to theory, practice and policy: The study recommends that managers at Tourism Fund can use the results to craft strategies on which areas to improve and which areas to excel at. For instance, the managers may highlight the toughest challenges so that they may find ways to improve on the drivers of the weaknesses and also identify the drivers of Strengths with an intention to excel in these areas. It is also suggested that since the employee perceptions were that formation of strategic change management have brought about competitive advantages, it may be important to consider investing in the area of change management with a hope of building and enjoying further competitive advantages. This investment would take the form of more human and financial resources allocated to strategic change management.
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