| dc.description.abstract | There is growing recognition that the most important problems in the field of strategic management
are not related to strategy formulation, but rather to strategy implementation. High failure rate of
organizational initiatives are in dynamic business Leadership like strategic leadership, which is
widely described as one of the key drivers of effective strategy implementation. Many faith based
organization implement diverse programmatic interventions which have benefited the communities
as well as improved their living standard. But tough economic times by global recession have
affected global funding. This calls for proper strategic leadership aimed at implementing competitive
strategies to achieve the goals of the health care institutions. The purpose of this study was to
investigate the influence of strategic leadership orientation on implementation of competitive
strategies in Kijabe Hospital, Kenya. The specific objectives of the study were to: establish the
influence of organization culture on implementation of competitive strategies, establish the extent to
which ethical practices influence implementation of competitive strategies, determine the influence
of strategic direction on implementation of competitive strategies and establish the extent to which
organizational controls influence implementation of competitive strategies. The study adopted both
descriptive and correlation designs. The target population was 706 employees of Kijabe Hospital.
The study used primary data which was collected by use of questionnaires. Data was analyzed by use
of descriptive and inferential statistics tools and presented in tables. The study found out that
organization culture, ethical practices, strategic direction and organizational control it totality explain
only 87.8% of the implementation of competitive strategies at Kijabe Mission Hospital , it was
established that organization culture was a significant positive predictor of the implementation of
competitive strategies (BI = 0.214, p<O.05), ethical practices was a significant negative predictor of
implementation of competitive strategies (B2= -.112, p<O.05), strategic direction was a significant
negative predictor of the implementation of competitive strategies (B3=-.294, p<O.05) and
organization control was a significant positive predictor of the implementation of competitive
strategies W4=O.OO]6, p<O.05) . The study concluded that both organization culture and
organizational control had positive influence while ethical practices and strategic direction had
negative influence on implementation of competitive strategies. It was recommended that
organizations should enhance their organization culture and organizational control while limit their
resources on ethical practices and strategic direction. The study may help in policy formulations in
areas of strategic leadership orientation and competitive strategies. By advancing a model that can
predict competitive strategies based on strategic leadership orientation, the study helped in theory
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