Strategic planning in public sector organizations of Botswana
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Sharp, Paul Thuso Faizel.
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1994-12Advisor
Roberts, Nancy
Wargo, Linda E.
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It is important that a strategic planning approach be chosen that is compatible with the culture of Botswana. This choice will enhance the managerial effectiveness, productivity, and performance of ublic sector organizations in Botswana. Western management approaches transferred to and implanted Botswana without adapting them to the culture of Botswana are not effective. People do not identify emselves with these methods, and thus cannot utilize them fully and efficiently. Unfamiliar to the people, a western approach cannot attain the same effective performance in Botswana that it does in in th p in dustrialized countries. The analysis of five western strategic planning approaches (Bryson's Rational-Analytic, ntrepreneurial-Innovative, Dialogue and Deliberation, Incremental, and Political) with regard to the lture and traditions of Botswana reveals that two of these approaches are suitable for use in Botswana. ese are the Bryson's Rational-Analytic and the Dialogue and Deliberation approaches. Some of the lements of these approaches which are in harmony with the national culture of Botswana have been used to build the Sharp Model, which is modeled on the traditional kgotla decision-making process.
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