Strategic Leadership Practices and Reforms Implementation in Selected National Police Divisions, Nairobi City County, Kenya
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Date
2021
Authors
Topister, Awino
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Kenyatta University
Abstract
urrently, the National Police Service is undergoing some reforms implementation. This study
was pegged on a discussion around the strategic leadership practices alongside reforms
implementation in selected Police Divisions in Nairobi City County, Kenya. Back ground of
this research was brought about by development of four objectives of this study, and was
studied from three major perspectives, namely the global, regional and lastly local. The
objectives were: to establish the extent to which the empowerment of an employee may
influence the implementation of reforms in the National Police Service, to find out how
teamwork affect reforms implementation in the National Police Service, to investigate how
resource mobilization influence reforms implementation in the National Police Service and to
analyse the effects of visionary leadership on the reforms implementation in the National
Police Service. The independent variables that were considered during the study were
employee empowerment, teamwork, resource mobilization and visionary leadership. Reforms
implementation was conceptualize during the study as the dependent variable. Kurt Lewin‟s
change theory was analysed to anchor on depended variable while sequential theory of
decentralization and leader member exchange theory anchored the other independent variables.
The study discussed research methodology, and this set out a descriptive research design. This
research incorporated a target population of 445 police leaders. A multistage sampling design
was used whereby combination of purposive, stratified and simple random sampling procedure
was used to come up with a sample of 146 police leaders which represented the whole
population. Eight police divisions were identified and questionnaires randomly given out to
selected police leaders using drop and pick method. Pilot testing was done at Nairobi Railways
Police Station whereby the questionnaires were administered to 15 police leaders to test
validity and reliability of the instruments. Due to sensitivity of matters under study, the
researcher considered ethical issues. Data was analysed using Statistical Package of Social
Science (SPSS). Regression model was used to analyse relationship between independent and
dependent variables where it established that employee empowerment, teamwork and resource
mobilization significantly affect reforms implementation while visionary leadership is not
correlated reforms implementation. Data Analysed was presented in tables. Results show that
strategic leadership practices in the National Police Service are inadequate for proper
implementation of reforms. The study concluded that strategic leadership practices is the key
role of reforms implementation in the National Police Service. The study further recommends
that National Police Service should improve strategic leadership practices in areas of employee
empowerment, teamwork, resource mobilization and leadership to realize implementation of
reforms in the National police service. Future researchers should focus in critically analysing
factors affecting visionary as a strategy of leadership practice in Reforms implementation in
the National Police divisions within Nairobi County
Description
A Research Project Submitted to the School of Business in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Award of the Degree of Masters in Business Administration (Strategic Management Option), Kenyatta University, June, 2021
Keywords
Strategic Leadership Practices, Reforms Implementation, Selected National Police Divisions, Nairobi City County, Kenya