Strategic planning, commitment to implementation tactics and job satisfaction among employees of UNHCR

Abstract

The Purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between strategic planning, employee commitment to strategy implementation and impact on employee satisfaction. The study was intending to achieve objectives: To examine the relationship between strategic planning, and employee commitment to strategy implementation, to ascertain the relationship between strategic planning and employee satisfaction and to determine the relationship between employee commitment to strategy implementation and employee job satisfaction. The study was using sample of 70 respondents who were adopted using sampling technique data was collected using self-administered questionnaires and later analyzed using SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Scientists) version 20.0. The findings show that since both variables’ statements were positively phrased, findings in table 5 show that there is a statistically significant positive correlation of conversance with organizational strategies and tendency to apply effective implementation tactics (r=0.393, p<0.01). implies that employees who strongly felt that the firm’s organizational strategies were clearly spelt out also had a significantly strong repute of the strategies’ application in their endeavors. This implies that, as levels of being conversant with the organizational strategies increase, employee’s tendency to implement the strategies also increases. There was also a statistically significant positive correlation of organizational strategies with job satisfaction (r=0.511, p<0.01). This implies that as organizational strategies’ conversance increase, job satisfaction scores also increase and so, employees who are well conversant with the organizational strategies have a relatively lofty standing of job satisfaction. Regarding the correlation of implementation tactics and job satisfaction of the employees, there was a statistically significant positive correlation of implementation tactics with job satisfaction among employees in UNHCR (r=0.292, p<0.01). This implies that as employee tendency to apply effective implementation tactics increases, job satisfaction scores also increase and so, employees who are effective at implementing the organizational strategies have a relatively superior status of job satisfaction