SOURCE:

Faculty: Education
Department: Educational Management And Policy

CONTRIBUTORS:

Ezenwaka, N. G.
Omenyi, A.S.

ABSTRACT:

The study specifically investigated the extent to which management of tertiary institutions apply environmental analysis, establish organizational direction, formulate organizational strategy, implement organizational strategy and use strategic control in the management of their institutions in order to achieve stated goals and objectives. Five research questions and five hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted descriptive survey design and was carried out in Enugu State. The population of the study was the entire 254 core management staff and Deans of Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education. There was no sampling as the entire population was used for the study. The instrument for data collection was a researcher- developed questionnaire titled “Strategic Management Application Questionnaire” (SMAQ). The questionnaire was structured on a five point scale. The instrument was both face and content validated by experts. The reliability coefficient of the instrument was established using Cronbach alpha measure of the items that yielded 0.74, 0.84, 0.75, 0.75 and 0.84 for clusters a,b,c,d and e respectively. The mean of means is 0.83, this indicated that the instrument was reliable and capable of testing what it intended to test. The researcher with the aid of three research assistants distributed and collected the completed instrument. The data generated from the study were collated, arranged and analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions while ANOVA and Scheffe Post-Hoc were used to test the hypotheses at 0. 05 level of significance. The findings among others indicated that core management staff and Deans in Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education apply strategic management approaches to a moderate extent. Recommendations among others were that: managers should ensure that every member of staff is involved or adequately informed of the strategic management process to be able to contribute effectively to its application. Educational implications and suggestions for further research were also made