Selected Strategic Management Practices on Performance of Public Secondary Schools in Garissa Township Sub County, Kenya

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of selected strategic management practices on performance of secondary schools in Garissa Township Sub County. The specific objectives guiding the study were to assess the relationship between stakeholder management strategy, leadership management strategy and technological management strategy and performance of public secondary schools in Garissa Township Sub County. Methodology: The study was underpinned by the theory of stakeholder, contingency theory of leadership, system theory of technology and the theory of performance. The study used a mixed research design in which both quantitative and qualitative data were collected from the respondents in answering the research questions. The target population comprised of boards of management, principals, deputy principals, teachers and students from the eleven public secondary schools in Garissa Township. Data was collected by use of questionnaires comprised of structured and unstructured questions. Findings: The study established that stakeholder management strategy, leadership management strategy and technological management strategy bears a positive and significant relationship with performance of secondary schools in Garissa Township Sub County. This is shown by beta values of 0.306, 0.554 and 0.341 and significant values of 0.001, 0.000 and 0.000 respectively. The results bears the implications that enhancing stakeholder management strategy, leadership management strategy and technological management strategy leads to enhanced performance levels of the public school. The study concluded that aspects of stakeholder management strategy, leadership management strategy and technological management strategy positively and significantly relates with performance levels of the public school. Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: The study provided recommendations to the management of the public secondary schools to enhance strategies under stakeholder management, leadership management and technological management since the practices results to enhance performance levels of the public secondary schools in in Garissa Township Sub County.