Abstract
Serious concerns have been raised by strategic plan formulation and implementation experts on the best strategic plan implementation style to result in effectiveness and efficiency in organisational performance. Nonetheless, empirical studies on this issue are at its infancy. In the developing economies no effort has been made by researchers to establish the best strategic plan implementation style. The literature indicated that an effort was made by researchers to establish the best strategic plan implementation style for effectiveness and efficiency in Turkish Municipal Authorities. The purpose of the study was to establish the strategy implementation styles used by local authorities on the Copperbelt Province of Zambia to realize their strategic objectives. Five out of ten local authorities were used for the study. Four strategy implementation styles from the literature were adopted and used as independent variables, i.e., rational, instrumentalism, logic-instrumentalism and no implementation style were adopted. The multiple linear regression model used to test the hypotheses revealed that, none of the hypotheses was significant (i.e., p value less than .05) The conclusion was that, though in all the local authorities strategic plan implementation has been carried out using a mixture of rational and incremental styles have been adopted. However, the two styles are not firmly adhered to because of lack of finances to oversee to the plan implementation. The possible reason could be that the organizational culture and systems affect the implementation process; leadership vision in driving the implementation is non-existent, hence poor and ineffective implementation style.
Highlights
Strategy implementation is the most intricate and time consuming part of strategic management
The implication in that barring the issue of transfers and resignations, the personnel is an asset for strategic plan formulation and implementation with experiences
The research set out to find answers to the research questions that emanated from the problem statement
Summary
Strategy implementation is the most intricate and time consuming part of strategic management. On this note, Li, Gouhui, and Eppler (2008), reiterated that, there are many (soft, hard and mixed) factors that influence the success of strategy implementation, ranging from the people who communicate, or implement the strategy to the systems or mechanisms in place for coordination and control. It appears that managers do not pay much attention to the planning of implementation as they pay attention when formulating strategy (Speculand, 2009; (Li, Gouhui & Eppler, 2008; Shah, 2005). Strategies fail not because the strategy is wrong, but because the execution was poorly done
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