Why Do Public Sector Organizations Fail In Implementation Of Strategic Plan In Pakistan?

Abstract

Public sector organizations have best strategic policies but results of all organization are not rewarding in accordance to long term objectives. Implementation of the strategic plan is more important than formulation; otherwise it is nothing except well documented pieces of paper in the organization. The purpose of study is to explore and confirm the effective factors of failure of the strategic plan implementation in public sector organizations in Pakistan. The study has been conducted on purely public sector organizations of the Twin City (Islamabad and Rawalpindi). For this study close ended Questionnaire are distributed among sample organizations. After the review of literature and experts opinion the study identified 16 factors of failure. Then by using the explorative and confirmative factor analysis these dimensions have been categorized into main four factors. The results these four factors are contextual dimensions (0.89), content dimensions (0.62), structural dimensions (0.730) and operational dimensions (0.95).

Key Words: Strategy, Strategy Implementation, Failure of Strategy Implementation, Public Sector Organization and Factor Analysis.