Effects of Organizational Culture on Strategic Change Management in Mombasa County Government
Keywords:
Organizational culture, Strategic Change management, County government and implementationAbstract
Organizational culture has the ability to shape organization's capacity for and receptiveness to change as well as the ability to shape the speed and efficiency with which things are done which also has to do with the skills and competencies of the respective managers. Therefore, organizational change often requires changing the organization's culture and learning. It has been noted that initial reforms implemented in Kenya were not very successful in attaining the desired objectives as the civil service grew progressively inefficient hence threatening to halt the growth of the economy. With the devolved system of governances, three years down the line only 21% of Kenyans are satisfied with the county government's performance and 53% of Kenyans expressing their dissatisfaction with the performances of county governments majorly due to invisible developments and service delivery as a result of devolution. Mombasa County has also been shown to face serious challenges in service delivery despite the wide ranging reforms put in place over the years. The study established the effect of organizational culture on strategic change management in Mombasa County Government. Both retrospective and cross sectional descriptive survey research design were adopted. The study was conducted among 4102 employees of the County Government of Mombasa. 12 key informants were picked using convenience sampling method while simple random sampling was adopted to sample 364 junior staff. Findings indicated that there was a positive and significant relationship between Organizational Culture and Strategic Change Management. The study recommended the County government of Mombasa to focus on organizational culture since they were found to have a positive and significant effect on the strategic change management.
Keywords: Organizational culture, Strategic Change management, County government and implementation
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