The Practice of Strategic Planning and Strategy Implementation in Public Universities of Ethiopia

Autor/in	Bassa, Assefa Beyene
Titel	The Practice of Strategic Planning and Strategy Implementation in Public Universities of Ethiopia
Quelle	In: Educational Planning, 22 (2015) 2, S.17-34 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1537-873X
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Strategic Planning; Educational Planning; Program Implementation; Public Colleges; Universities; Stakeholders; Participative Decision Making; Barriers; Change Strategies; Progress Monitoring; Alignment (Education); Ethiopia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Strategy; Planning; Strategie; Planung; Bildungsplanung; University; Universität; Lösungsstrategie; Äthiopien
Abstract	Recently Ethiopia has been engaged in a huge expansion of its higher education institutions. This was also accompanied by a series of institutional management reforms and quality assurance regulations. Accordingly, the organizational environment in the public universities of Ethiopia has been changing from time to time. In such a context, the key to better align these academic institutions with the needs of their rapidly changing internal and external environments is the design of appropriate strategic plans and effective implementation of their preferred strategies. Hence, the purpose of this study was to investigate the practice of strategic planning and strategy implementation in public universities of Ethiopia. Data were collected through questionnaires from staff members (from both academic and administrative) and students; and through interviews from the management team members (Vice Presidents and Directors) of three selected public universities. The results of this study showed that in the sampled public universities: stakeholders' participation in the process of strategic planning was found to be low; less emphasis was given to critically assessing their ever changing external environment while planning; the practice of clearly communicating their preferred strategies and activities to both academic and administrative staff was found to be minimal and ineffective; there was also lack of adequate monitoring, follow up and feedback systems; moreover, major decisions were made without aligning them with the university's preferred areas of priority and major objectives as stipulated in the strategic plan document. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01