Exploring factors contributing to strategic plan implementation (IBP 2011-2016) failure at the City of Windhoek local authority, Namibia

In spite organization having well formulated strategic plans, the rate of failure to implement strategic plans remains high. There’s a need to better understand the relevant failure factors that influence implementation’s outcomes. It is generally accepted that failure to implement is indeed a of formulation. Therefore, the study specifically sought to identify the factors that contributed to the strategic plan implementation failure at the Namibian Local authority council, in particular the City of Windhoek (CoW) and to categories each factor according to their influence/contribution to strategic plan implementation failure at the City of Windhoek. A quantitative approached was adopted as well as a descriptive survey research design involving only employees from the CoW. The target sample was 200 from the organization’s organogram consisting of divisional managers, sectional heads, and supervisors (foreman). The study used the Statistical Package of the Social Sciences AMOS Version 23 (SPSS 23 AMOS) to analyse, validate and generate descriptive statistics according to the identified study objectives. Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) was also done for the current study. A Principal Axis Factor (PAF) with a Varimax (orthogonal) rotation of the 17 Likert scale questions from the survey questionnaire was conducted on data gathered from 182 participants. Findings, the exploration resulted in the identification of 14 individual failure factors associated to 4 determinants of strategy implementation labelled as content, structure, operational and context. Furthermore, the study also categorized the determinants according to their impact on the strategic plan in descending order from the most impactful to least respectively. Content factor with 16.789% of total variance, followed by the Structural factor with 11.415% total variance, then by the operational factor with 10.298% of total variance and lastly the factor with the least influence or impact was the context factor with 7.899% of total variance.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Namibia

Year dc:date.issued

2022

Author dc:creator

• Smith, Carlos S.

• Strategic plan
• Local authority council
• City of Windhoek

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11070/3276

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.unam.edu.na:11070/3276