Strategic Leadership, Organization Culture and Strategy Implementation in Healthcare Sector in Kenya: A Case Study of Narok County Referral Hospital

Abstract

The paper’s aim was to assess the influence of strategic leadership and organization culture on strategy implementation in healthcare sector at Narok County Referral Hospital in Narok County. Its specific objective was to examine the influence of strategic leadership on strategy implementation; and to establish the influence of organization culture on strategy implementation at Narok County Referral Hospital in Narok County. The researcher adopted a descriptive design and the target population comprised of a total of 249 staff of Narok County Referral Hospital in Narok County. A total of 76 staff to be included in the sample were selected through stratified random sampling and research instruments were distributed to the respondents to provide primary data. Finally, raw data was analyzed to derive both inferential statistics and descriptive statistics needed to make generalization. The study established that strategic leadership possessed a positive and insignificant association with strategy implementation as shown by β = 0.015, and p = 0.859, and that organizational culture also depicted positive but insignificant association with strategy implementation denoted by β = 0.054 and p = 0.407. The study concludes that strategic leader promote enabling culture drivers. Finally, the study recommends that organizations should encourage strong strategic leadership because it influences strategy implementation and consequently organization goals and that organizations should enhance their resources mobilization capabilities and strategies through various units since organizational resource is a critical determinant in ensuring successful strategy implementation.