Strategic Planning Practices and Performance: The Story So Far in Parliamentary Service Commission in Kenya
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Date
2021
Authors
Lemuna, Moses Mpisili
Muathe, Stephen
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Publisher
European Scientific Institute
Abstract
The economic and political change in today’s organizations is the norm
and the social and technological change is highly accelerating posing
extremely complex task and uncertainty to those responsible for strategic
planning. Therefore, in executing various decisions there is need for managers
to achieve a total understanding of strategic planning prior to effectively
implementing it. This study investigated the influence of strategic planning
practices on the performance of Parliamentary Service Commission in Kenya.
The study specifically examined influence of environmental scanning,
objective setting, stakeholder involvement and communication on
performance of Kenyan Parliamentary Service Commission. The study was
anchored on resource-based view; dynamic capability; balance score card and
institutional theories. Descriptive survey research design was used. The target
population comprised of eight hundred and five respondents who are the
permanent staff of the Parliamentary Service Commission. However, a sample
size of eighty-one respondents was selected using simple random sampling.
Data was obtained using questionnaires and analyzed through descriptive and
inferential statistics specifically multiple regressions and correlation. The
study established that environmental scanning, objective setting, stakeholder
involvement and communication had a positive and significant effect on the
performance of Parliamentary Service Commission in Kenya. The study
recommends that the Commission should identify the persons to be involved
in the environmental scanning, create a competent team of employees and assign them relevant responsibilities. The Commission needs to set objectives
that can be defined in a quantifiable and measurable terms within its strategic
plan beside establishing responsibility for ensuring the task is undertaken and
for writing it up for the report on stakeholder engagement. The Commission
should link communication to the strategic plan, including the organization’s
mission, vision and values, its strategic goals and objectives.
Description
A research article published in European Scientific Journal
Keywords
Strategic planning, Performance, Parliamentary service commission, Dynamic Capability Theory, Dynamic Capability Theory, Kenya
Citation
Lemuna, M. M., & Muathe, S. (2021). Strategic Planning Practices and Performance: The Story So Far in Parliamentary Service Commission in Kenya. European Scientific Journal, ESJ, 17(27), 261. https://doi.org/10.19044/esj.2021.v17n27p261