Master of Business Administration
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Item Influence of Strategic Leadership on Innovation among Mobile Service Providers in Kenya(KeMU, 2019-08) Wakere, Samuel G.A firm’s ability to continually produce relevant inventions, and convert them into marketable products, has a profound influence on its competitiveness and the pathways toward future success that are open to it. Strategic leaders who shape their companies to become extraordinary innovators are lauded in the popular press and practitioner journals. Innovation has been stated as implementation of practices such as brand-new and developed product, process, and marketing method inside and outside of the organization. It is understood from these views; leadership approaches are needed to create work environment innovativeness supporting and properly manage processes in managerial aspects. The main objective for this study was to investigate the influence of strategic leadership on innovation among mobile service providers in Kenya. The specific objectives of the study were to: Establish the influence of transformational leadership on innovation among mobile service providers in Kenya; determine the influence of transactional leadership on innovation among mobile service providers in Kenya, determine the influence of distributed leadership on innovation among mobile service providers in Kenya and to assess the moderating role of environmental dynamism on the relationship between strategic leadership and innovation among mobile service providers in Kenya. The theoretical lens applied to this research was the Upper Echelons Theory (UET), contingency theory and path-goal theory. The study adopted a descriptive research design; the target population in this study was the three mobile service providers namely Safaricom ltd, Airtel Kenya Ltd and Telkom Ltd while the target respondents were the 117 senior managers from the firms’ head offices in Nairobi County from which a sample size of 93 respondents was selected. A semi-structured questionnaire was utilized to gather primary data that were qualitative and quantitative in nature and were analyzed by content analysis and descriptive analysis. Inferential analysis involved use of regression analysis and correlation analysis to establish the strength of the relationship. The descriptive statistical tools such as SPSS version 21 and MS Excel helped in describing the data. The study results indicated that transformational leadership, transactional leadership and distributed leadership were positively and highly correlated with innovation. Environmental dynamisms was found to moderate the influence of strategic leadership on innovation among mobile service providers in Kenya. It was recommended that transformational leaders should use inspirational motivation and intellectual stimulation which are critical for organizational innovation, transactional leaders to not only employ rewards and punishments, but focus more on goal-setting and control and base incentives on ‘contingent rewards’ (rewarding good performance and recognizing accomplishments) and ‘management by exception’ (active and passive search for deviations from existing rules and standards. Regarding distributed leadership, team leaders should allow shared leadership and collective leadership, should ensure that leadership is a form of empowering leadership where leadership activities or roles are ‘distributed’ by the formal leader more widely to team members. The CEO’s should make use of empowering leadership behavior specifically focuses on the encouragement of leadership from below.Item Factors Influencing Strategy Implementation in Mobile Service Providers in Kenya(KeMU, 2019-08) Moriasi, Esbon O.This investigation planned for building up the elements affecting methodology execution on versatile specialist organization in Kenya. The Interchanges Specialist of Kenya has in the previous 20 years authorized a cycle four portable administrators Safaricom PLC, Bharti Airtel, Telkom Kenya Constrained and Equitel; and a couple of web get to providers like Wananchi and Jamii Telkom. Writing of the past academic works archives a high disappointment rate in technique execution in many associations everywhere throughout the world, noticed that 50 to 70 % of associations overall perform very well in key definition however either come up short or truly battle during the system usage process. The hole existing in the writing where past examinations worldwide have to a great extent overlooked the methodology execution process, It is on this background the ebb and flow study attempted to explore the key drivers of technique usage and their impact on the general result in the portable specialist co-ops in Kenya. The target of the investigation is to decide the degree which initiative style, hierarchical frameworks, authoritative structure and staff culture impact system usage in portable specialist organizations in Kenya. A blended structure including quantitative and subjective plans was utilized to acquire data from 86 ranking directors drawn from the complete populace of 110 ranking directors. The specialist utilized stratified and precise arbitrary examining techniques to choose the directors that took an interest in this study. Further the gathered information was arranged, coded and dissected utilizing (SPSS) V23 and outline measurements such mean scores, standard deviation and inferential insights specifically; connection and relapse results were utilized to show the information. Bivariate relationships and relapse results were additionally used to test the theories. Association structure was the most favored of the four factors, trailed by association framework, administration style and staff culture individually. Transformational authority style was observed to be liked, trailed via Totalitarian, Value-based, participative and free enterprise initiative style. In the hierarchical framework variable, the needs of the association surely knew by its workers were the most compelling. In the hierarchical structure variable, Centralization structure was the most persuasive, trailed by decentralization, formalization, specialization structure separately. On staff culture variable, the way of life of enduring new thoughts from staff individuals was ignored. The examination presumed that: associations senior administration should start getting a handle on others authority style and arrange them with transformational activity style to lift better outcome; a framework has information, yields and results, with progressing input. In the event that one piece of the framework is expelled, the nature of the framework is changed; the way of life of workers enduring new thoughts from staff individuals and coordinating their contemplations into procedure execution. The examination prescribed that pioneers ought to require convenient and powerful basic leadership abilities and setting vision for other people. Also, framework change advancement ought to be without tumult. Thirdly, an adaptable structure ought to be kept up. In conclusion, portable specialist co-ops in Kenya ought to receive another culture that is lined up with the constantly changing condition of innovation. Vision hindrance, individuals boundary, asset obstruction and the board obstruction were suggested for further examination.