STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND PERFORMANCE OF TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING INSTITUTIONS IN KENYA

Jared Getange Bosire, Dr. James Ongwae Gichana

Abstract


Technical and Vocational Education and Training Institutions have continued to face challenges of poor performance. It is unimaginable that the Government of Kenya is aiming to achieve Vision 2030 which to a greater extent is strongly hinged on the trainees from these Technical and vocational education and training institutions, yet they are currently facing performance issues. It therefore remains a night mare on whether this noble Goal would materialize with the current State of these Technical and vocational education and training institutions. Thus, this study was set out to establish the relationship between strategic management practices and ability technical and vocational education and training institutions in Kenya to perform. The specific focus of the study was on formulation and implementation in regard to performance of Technical and vocational education and training institutions in Kenya.  Resource based view was used to underpin the study variables. Descriptive survey design was embraced and 2206 public and private technical and vocational education and training institutions in Kenya were targeted as unit of analysis while directors from each of these institutions were respondents as well as unit of observation. Stratified random sampling was adopted to select 338 respondents as the sample size. The study collected primary data through structured questionnaire whose validity and reliability had been determined beforehand. The collected data was analyzed with help of Statistical Package for Social Sciences guided by means and standard deviations as well as correlation and regression analysis and presented through tables and figures.  The study established that all the p-values for strategy formulation and implementation were all less than 0.05 i.e. p<0.05 ad hence all the formulated null hypotheses were rejected.  The study concludes that strategic management practices are significant enablers of performance of TVETs. It was recommended that there is need to formulate and refine the goals and objectives established by TVETs in Kenya in response to volatility in their operating environment. The National Government should increase the amount of capitation sent to public TVETs so that the same can be allocated to support the daily strategy implementation activities undertaken. 

Keywords: Strategic Management, strategy formulation, strategy implementation and performance 


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