Effect of Strategic Management Practices on Implementation of Quality Management Systems for State Corporations in Kenya

Abstract

The general objective of this research study was to examine the effects of strategic management practices on implementation of quality management systems for State Corporations in Kenya with specific objectives being to assess the effects of strategic organizational cultural practice, to evaluate the effects of strategic leadership practices, to find out the effects the effects of strategic planning practices and lastly to analyse the effects of strategic human resource practices on the implementation of quality management systems. The study adopted a cross-sectional survey design and questionnaires were distributed by drop and pick method. A sample size comprised of 97 managers was drawn using purposive sampling. The target population was 130 managers derived from 8 State Corporations in coastal Kenya. The primary data was collected using a questionnaire. The data was analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) software version 24 where Pearson correlation coefficient was used to determine the strength of the relationship between the variables. Multiple regression model was used to determine the influence of all independent variables on the dependent variable implementation of quality management systems. The study findings indicated that there was moderate positive linear relationship existing between four independent variables namely: strategic organizational cultural practices, strategic leadership practices, strategic planning practices and strategic human resource management practices and the dependent variable the implementation of quality management systems for state corporations in Kenya. In this study all the null hypothesis were rejected and the alternative hypothesis were taken to hold, that there is relationship between all the four independent variables and the dependent variable implementation of quality management systems. The study concluded that different strategic management practices were significant to the implementation of quality management systems of state corporations. Further, the study recommended that managers should adopt use of all the strategic management practices.