Adaptive Change Strategy and Performance of Catholic Economic Self-Help Projects in Kiambu County, Kenya

Antony Njagi Mugo, Dr. Millicent Mboya, Dr. Rev. John Karihe

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In order for firms to enhance their adaptive capacity to come up with flexible solutions to the challenges that impede creativity for integrating ICT, leaders must work with their followers and stakeholders in a supportive environment. However, firms encounter a plethora of bottlenecks when faced with varying technological, structural, operational changes, raw material shortages, and other socio-economic or political changes. These changes might affect organizational performance of firms, and therefore, they need to incorporate the effect of adaptive change strategy in their operations. The drive of this study is therefore to examine the effect of adaptive change strategy on organizational performance in the Catholic Economic Self-Help Project based in Kiambu County, Kenya, and the specific objectives are to determine the influence of stakeholder involvement on organization performance and to establish the influence of communication on organization performance. The stakeholder theory and communication theory functioned as the study's guiding theories. The population of the study comprised 125 Catholic economic self-help projects-based organizations in Kiambu County. It was through structured questionnaires that primary data was gathered. Data was analyzed using SPSS version 27. Data analysis was done through the use of descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. Descriptive statistics included the mean and standard deviation. On the other hand, inferential statistics comprised correlation analysis and regression analysis. Data was presented in tables. The study concludes that stakeholders' involvement has a positive and significant effect on organizational performance in the Catholic economic self-help projects in Kiambu County, Kenya. In addition, the study concludes that communication has a positive and significant effect on organizational performance in the Catholic economic self-help projects in Kiambu County, Kenya. From the findings, the study recommends that the management of the Catholic economic self-help project in Kenya should adopt a participatory and values-driven vision-setting process that actively involves project leaders, members, and key stakeholders to ensure shared understanding and commitment to organizational goals.

Keywords: Adaptive Change Strategy, Stakeholder Involvement, Communication, Catholic Economic Self-Help Projects


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