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| The Influence of Strategic Management Practices towards Public Sector’s Performance in Zanzibar. |
Salim M. Hamza, Wang Guohua
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Abstract:
Effective public administration in the age of results-oriented management requires public agencies to develop a capacity for strategic management that integrates all major activities and functions and directs them toward advancing an organization's strategic agenda. Strategic management is concerned with strengthening the long-term viability and effectiveness of public sector organizations in terms of both substantive policy and management capacity. It integrates all other management processes to provide a systematic, coherent, and effective approach to establishing, attaining, monitoring and updating departments strategic objectives.
In Zanzibar, the Strategic management context is now a government wide reform initiative. After a significant era of socio-economic reforms in 1980s, The Zanzibar Government commenced an expansive public sector reform in 2000s that including the introduction of strategic management initiatives that requires all public institutions to adopt strategic planning in their managing system. In line with this initiative, novel policy requires all public institutions to develop long term mission and vision, strategic goals and establish the intensity of resources required to accomplish the identified performance goals/objectives. The fundamental idea behind this reform was, first and leading, to support public service provision with the connected financial implications and result oriented. To that outcome public institutions are required to specify what they are doing, how they are undertaking it and with what fiscal implications. The methodology used by this work was ‘Internet Search’ and article review. The study conferred with different sources on the Internet to produce evidence, reality and tutorials that the author hoped to be learned with respect to the study. Where likely the websites of the specific source were visited, for instance website of some academic journal which only put resources in html format apart from documents or Pdf. The reviewed literatures are mostly available on the Internet. This paper focuses on analysing the use of strategic management in government sector in Zanzibar. And it will raise awareness of the central importance of strategic management in government, as well as define the critical elements in a holistic model of strategic planning. Also it will discuss the strategic management process, and clarify the relationship between strategic management and other management processes.
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