Strategic management is a vital element of any company’s functioning and existence, which is why it needs to be supported by all means possible. For this reason, the connection between the efficacy of strategic management implementation and organization’s characteristics such as its structure and design need to be explored further. In their study, Ruth M. Abuga and Jared Deya examine the connection between these variables, thus contributing to the improvement of strategic ,management by exploring the opportunities for organizational structure and design updates. Due to the meticulous and detailed analysis technique used in the article, its conclusions can be considered a legitimate and vital contribution to strategic management and the development of organizational structure and design.
The process of formulating and implementing a management strategy explored by the authors is linked directly to the experiences of multiple companies in the current economic setting. Due to the issues observed in the modern economic setting, the development of a competitive management strategy is quite challenging for most firms. Therefore, the reconsideration of the organizational structure and the effects that its design has on the creation and implementation of strategic management is critical to a company’s performance.
The study by Abuga and Deya should be credited for its detailed approach to structuring an article, with a clear introduction and a literature review, an accurate problem statement, a definition of the quantitative methodological approach, a thorough discussion, and a coherent conclusion. Specifically, the authors delineated that “human resource capability had an inverse effect on competitive advantage” (Abuga and Deya 253). The attempt at embracing the connection between the financial and organizational aspects of the management process appears to be the key strength of the article, whereas the use of purposive sampling prevents from getting a diverse result, thus weakening the research.
Overall, due to the coherent methodology and the comprehensive review, the authors have managed to connect the organizational design to the opportunities of improving strategic management approaches. Therefore, the study has become an important addition to the exploration of the organization structure and design area of business management. Nonetheless, further research addressing the subject matter on a more comprehensive scale will be needed for improved approaches for strategic management.
Work Cited
Abuga, Ruth Moraa, and Jared Deya. “Effect of organizational structure on strategy implementation: A case study of Safaricom Kenya Ltd.” International Academic Journal of Human Resource and Business Administration, vol. 3, no. 5, 2019, pp. 247-254.