PROCUREMENT SKILLS AND CROSS-FUNCTIONAL COORDINATION IN TRANS NZOIA COUNTY GOVERNMENT, KENYA
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The main purpose of the study was to examine the influence of procurement skills and cross-functional coordination in Trans Nzoia County government, Kenya. The study was anchored on the resource-based view Theory. The study employed descriptive research design consisting of both quantitative and qualitative approaches. Target population was 85 respondents who were county merchants, top level, middle level and lower level management working in the finance, administration, ICT, human resource, county planning, audit and procurement departments as per the county human resource department records. The study utilized questionnaires to collect data. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were employed with the aid of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 29 software. Descriptive statistics such as mean, frequencies and standard deviation assisted in summarizing sample characteristics, while inferential statistics regression, correlations and ANOVA to establish relationships. The results indicated that strategic analytical skills had a higher, perfect and statistically significant correlation of r =.560; p<.01; while technical tactical skills at r =.571, p<.01 respectively. The regression results revealed that strategic analytical skills explained 43% while technical tactical skills explained 50.3% of the variations in cross-functional coordination in Trans Nzoia County government, Kenya. The study concluded that the variables had a positive and statistically significant effect on cross-functional coordination in the Trans Nzoia County governments in Kenya, which led to the recommendations that there was need that the procurement staff work well with the user department to ensure that the procurement department have good communication skills with users in order to maintain positive relationship with the users and that the department be supported by the county government in order to ensure that networking effectively improve the performance of the procurement department. The findings of the study were hoped to create insight among procurement departments and cross-functional coordination in county governments in Kenya. And lastly, the results contributed to academic discourse on procurement sector in general.
Keywords: Cross functional coordination, strategic analytical skills, technical tactical skills, public procurement
CITATION: Mogere, M. K., & Miroga, J. B. (2025). Procurement skills and cross-functional coordination in Trans Nzoia County Government, Kenya. The Strategic Journal of Business & Change Management, 12 (2), 1340 – 1352. http://dx.doi.org/10.61426/sjbcm.v12i2.3174
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