Vision and Mission Statement in Christian Higher Educational Management in Eastern Africa

Using a Mixed Methods Content Analysis to Analyze Mission Statements From Colleges of Engineering

“…In the international arena, mission statements have been studied to compare corporate and traditional universities in the United States and the United Kingdom (Walton, 2005) and higher education institutions in Wales (James & Huisman, 2009) and East Africa (Kibuuka, 2001). Walton (2005) concluded that there was greater diversity in the mission statements from institutions in the United States than in the United Kingdom but that higher education institutions in the two countries shared many foundational variables or codes, such as references to research, scholarship, learning, and service.…”

“…They are often produced through the strategic planning process in organizations (Firmin & Gilson, 2010) or in preparation for an accreditation visit. In the best of all worlds, they are cultural artifacts in that they are written to mirror an institution’s overall vision and purpose (Kibuuka, 2001), to distinguish them from other institutions, and to serve as a guide for everyday practice. A more skeptical view is that mission statements are aspirational in nature (Walton, 2005) and use vague language that promises generic qualities, such as excellence, that cannot be measured (Morphew & Hartley, 2006).…”

Mission Statement Analysis of CCCU Member Institutions

“…Morphew and Hartley (2006) note that for universities, mission statements are required by accreditation agencies; in fact, they drive the strategic planning process in most colleges, and virtually every institution of higher education possesses one. An institution's overall vision often is reflected in its formal mission statement (Kibuuka, 2001). Additionally, a university's monetary supply-line from governmental or private sources often is tied to its mission statement (Wang, Gibson, Salinas, Solis, & Slate, 2007).…”

Content Analyses on Mission Statements of the Mobile Network Operators in Kyrgyzstan

“…Much of studies and empirical researches on mission statement contents, usually attempt to bind these components to company performance (Pearce and David, 1987;Bart and Baetz, 1998;O'Gorman and Doran, 1999;Analoui and Karami, 2002), especially its financial performance (Williams, 2008;Jung and Pompper, 2014). The industrial or sectorial differentiation of researches on mission statements is pretty various: in case of education (Finley et al, 2001;Kibuuka, 2001;Stemler, et al, 2011;Wilson,et al, 2011;Orozco, 2012;Kosmützky, 2012); electronic industry (Analoui and Karami, 2002); health and pharmaceutics (Bart and Tabone, 1999;Bolon, 2005;Azizi and Hosseinabadi, 2014); banks (Tuhin, 2014); mining (Garg, 2014); of confectionary industry (Marjanova and Fotov, 2014). This paper contributes to above literatures by studying the content of mission statements of MNO in Kyrgyzstan.…”