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Title
STRATEGIC PLAN IMPLEMENTATION IN THE UAE PUBLIC SECTOR ORGANIZATIONS:
ANTECEDENTS AND OUTCOMES
Faculty Advisor
Prof. Said Elbanna
Defense Date
07 May 2017
Abstract
This study presents one of the first attempts to empirically test a conceptual model that discusses the effect
of four factors; namely, decentralization of strategic planning, personnel commitment, senior management
support, and importance of the strategic plan, on the success of strategic plan implementation and
investigate whether the success of the strategic plan implementation affects organizational performance.
Environmental munificence and organizational size are used as control variables in this investigation.
This research targeted executive managers, senior analysts and strategic advisers in the United Arab
Emirates (UAE) government organizations. The research sample covered all the relevant public bodies.
Out of 290 bodies, 219 bodies agreed to participate in the study, with 125 of them completing the study
questionnaire (57% response rate). Path analysis was used via the AMOS software to test the hypotheses
presented in the conceptual model of the study.
The findings show that decentralization of strategic planning, personnel commitment to strategic plan
implementation, and senior management support have a positive impact on the success of strategic plan
implementation. However, the empirical testing of the importance of a strategic plan is not significant
for implementation success. The findings also indicate that success of strategic plan implementation
has a positive impact on organizational performance. Similarly, the results indicate that environmental
munificence has a positive impact on both the success of strategic plan implementation and organizational
performance, justifying its use as a control variable. The results further indicate that the other control
variable employed (i.e., organizational size) had no impact on either success of implementation or
organizational performance. In addition to the above investigation, this research assesses the tools of
strategic planning that are most commonly used at present in the UAE public organizations and highlights
the key challenges that the UAE public organizations face in implementing their strategic plans.
Dissertation
FAKHRAH KHALFAN HUMAID
F. ALQUBAISI
Department of Business Administration
College of Business and Economics