Effects of Strategy Control Measures on Strategy Implementation at the Lake Victoria North Water Services Board, Homabay County, Kenya

The Lake Victoria North Water Services Board (LVNWSB) in Homabay initiated a project with the aim of improving and expanding the network and infrastructure for drinking water and its sanitation in the county of Homabay. At that time, about 92% of the population had no access to piped water which was also of poor quality and high cost. Only 8% of the residents benefited from a continuous water supply. The Homabay Project is worth Ksh 300M which was to be completed by 2017 but up to date it has not been completed. The objective of this study was to establish the effect of strategy control measures on strategy implementation at the LVNWSB, in Homa Bay County, Kenya. The stakeholder theory was used in the study that suggests that an organization is a social construction made of interaction of various stakeholders. This study used correlation survey design. The target population for this study was 50 employees of LVNWSB. Census method was used to survey the target population. The respondents were given questionnaires that were administered through drop and pick method. The questionnaires were pre-tested by conducting a pilot survey from 5 respondents taken from the 50 employees using the internal consistency technique by employing Cronbach Coefficient Alpha test for reliability. Validity was determined using Content Validity Index (CVI). The research instrument was designed to collect qualitative and quantitative data. The researcher used multiple regression analysis using SPSS so as to determine the effects of independent variables on dependent variable. The study findings revealed that strategic control systems have a positive significant effect on strategy implementation (β=.389, p=.000). The study concluded that strategic control systems have positive effect on strategy implementation. The study therefore recommends that the government improves the strategic control measures to enhance strategy implementation at LVNWSB. Findings from this study will be valuable to a number of stakeholders in and outside the water sector: expanding existing knowledge, referencing and finding comparisons in the quest of getting an ideal strategy-ethics composition and policy approach to stakeholder involvement that would improve service delivery.