Abstract:
Strategic management was born as a hybrid discipline influenced by both sociology and economics. It only began receiving more attention, from both the academic and the business worlds. The main aim of this research was to examine the practices and Challenges of Implementing Strategic Plan in the selected public sectors of Burayu town. Mixed research approach was used. Following the completion of data collection data processing were conducted through filtering inaccuracy, inconsistency; incompleteness and illegibility of the raw data to make analysis very easy. To solve such problems manual editing, coding, data entry, and consistency checking were done. To analyze data both quantitative and qualitative techniques such as mean, frequency, percentage and standard deviation were employed. This study revealed that the challenges confronted by the organization in the process of implementing strategic plan in the town are potentially unachievable strategy, ineffective leadership; having wrong people in leadership position, poor alignment with administrative authority and implementing strategy management tasks were not sufficiently defined. Based on the findings, the study concluded that there were various challenges affecting the implementation of strategic plan includes vagueness of the assignment of responsibility, inadequate down the line leadership, uncertainties, and unplanned project causes deviation in implementation. The study would like to recommend increasing the level of Effective leadership in a given organization influences how the chosen strategies will be implemented, develop action plans for individual initiatives within the plan, and determine who is responsible for what, when it will be started and completed, and what intermediate accomplishments are needed to achieve final results. This will help to determine when adjustments need to be made and make progress more apparent and better leadership
