Influence of middle level management

Abstract

The purpose of the research was to establish the influence of middle level management’s facilitating adaptability on strategy execution in insurance companies in Kenya. The study targeted Kenyan insurance sector with a population of 436 middle managers.  The study was guided by the positivism philosophy and used a descriptive and correlational research design. The population of study was 436 middle level managers in all the 49 insurance companies in Kenya. The sample size computed upon using the Yamane (1967) formula revealed a sample size of 209 respondents. The mean for facilitating adaptability ranged from 3.41 to 3.11. On the other hand, the standard deviation ranged from 0.571 to 0.767. The findings of the T-test show that the p-value of equality of variance is 0.029 which is less than 0.05 and this means that the variances are not assumed to be equal. The t-value for this study is 6.535 and the p-value for this t-value is 0.002. Because the p-value of 0.002 is less than the standard p-value of 0.05 (0.002< 0.05), the null hypothesis that there is no significant mean difference on facilitating adaptability and strategy execution is rejected. Hence the study concludes that there is a significant evidence to prove that there is statistical difference in achieving effective strategy execution based on facilitating adaptability. The results of the multiple linear regression indicated that facilitating adaptability predicted strategy execution as shown by R2 = .216, F(1, 172) = 47.263, p < .05, β = .279, t(174) = 6.875, p <.05.