Browsing by Author "Ndambiri, Serah"

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    Barriers of Effective Strategy Execution: Organization’s Challenge
    (The International Journal Of Business & Management, 2015-09) Ndambiri, Serah
    Strategies are a critical element in organizational functioning, but whereas most organizations have good strategies, successful strategy implementation remains a major challenge. Despite the clear importance of this management area and the apparent problems associated with its execution, it has however, been substantially neglected by academics. The objective of the study is to determine the barriers to strategy execution in Kenyan public university focusing on vision barrier, leadership barrier, process barrier and people’s behavior barrier. The study constitutes the review of theoretical and empirical literature relevant to the subject. The key barrier to strategy execution were identified and discussed: including vision barrier, leadership barrier, process and resources barrier and people barrier. The research was compiled from theoretical, conceptual and empirical review of literature and a summary and conclusion was drawn. Translation of vision to clear objective and aligning it to strategy remains a big challenge. In addition leadership style, approach and perceptions are critical to implementation in addition to the leader’s role of communicating strategy to the employee. Failure to adopt the best approach with a given type of strategy and employing the best communication tactic implementation is likely to fail. Aligning process resources, structures and program in the implementation of strategy is also critical to implementation failure to which a problem is likely to occur. Moreover individual’s behaviors determine if the strategy will be implemented or not. Individuals must be assigned duties that motivate them otherwise they will not be committed to the organization operations. The author recommends that specific studies be conducted on the effective tools to measure and control performance to assist in overcoming barriers to strategy execution
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    The Effect of Green Water Management on Performance of Manufacturing Companies: A Survey of Selected Companies in Thika Sub-County
    (Mount Kenya University, 2018) Ndambiri, Serah; Oyagi, Bernard
    Kenyan government through NEMA has been advocating and pressurizing business entities in taking up the responsibilities of conserving its environment. The study intended to identify the effect of green water management undertaken by manufacturing companies on their performance. The study was conducted in Thika municipality where different manufacturing companies operate and samples of 31 respondents were considered valid. The study adopted descriptive research, taking both qualitative and quantitative approach utilizing both secondary and primary data. The population included those companies that practice environment management where purposive sampling technique was used and a sample of three companies were selected. The main respondents of the study were the top and middle level managers and operational staff in the production department. Data was collected using structured questionnaires combined with personal interviews and observation which were then sorted and coded. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics. SPSS aided in data analysis. The major effect of green water management was found to be on finances where 77.4% said the initial cost of water plant, equipment and technology as well as maintaining the practices was high. The high initial cost forced some companies to forego the practices. Adopting water conservation and management affected the performance of the company in that the company’s social relation with neighborhood is good thus having peaceful coexistence while doing its businesses. In addition by managing water, the company’s competitiveness increases due to government endorsement through certification