Strategic Leadership, Strategic Resources Allocation, Strategic Incentive and Performance of Public Secondary Schools in Bungoma, County.Kenya

Carolyne Wamalwa Nang’ole^1, and Stephen Makau Muathe¹

¹School of Business, Economics & Tourism, Kenyatta University, Kenya

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Carolyne Wamalwa Nang’ole and Stephen Makau Muathe. Strategic Leadership, Strategic Resources Allocation, Strategic Incentive and Performance of Public Secondary Schools in Bungoma, County.Kenya. Journal of Business and Management Sciences. 2023; 11(4):229-239. doi: 10.12691/JBMS-11-4-2

Abstract

Education is the social pillar of the vision 2030 hence education gets the highest budget. The education sector got 32.6% of the Kenyan national budget of the financial year 2022/23 to finance its activities, which was the largest share, yet performance of public schools has not been impressive. The schools have implemented strategic plans, they have service charter delivery and have set targets geared towards performance but it is still unrewarding. This study objectives were to established how strategic leadership, strategic resource allocation and strategic incentives affected performance of public secondary schools in Bungoma County, Kenya. This research utilized the resource based and the capability theory, behavioral leadership theory, expectancy variables were anchored by the balance score card model, Resource Based View, Dynamic Capability Theory, Leadership Behavioural Theory and Expectancy Value Theory. The researcher used descriptive survey design; the sample size was 101 respondents. Data was collected using a structured questionnaire and analyzed using descriptive statistics and multiple regression analysis models. The results indicated that strategic leadership had significant effect on performance in public schools in Bungoma County. Strategic resource allocation had a significant and positive effect on performance of public schools in Bungoma County and the strategy of incentive had a significant effect on the performance of public schools in Bungoma County. The researchers recommends that school managers should provide strategic leadership and ensure that strategic plans are executed within the allocated resources, school managers disseminate messages on the strategic plans effectively to the staff and ensure incentives are provided to those who meet the set targets so that there is successful implementation of strategic plans which can translate to greater productivity among teachers and students.

Keywords

Balanced Score Card, Behavioural Theory, Strategic implementation, strategic leadership, strategic resources allocation, strategy of incentive.

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