Succession Planning, Transformational Leadership and The Stability of Evangelical Churches in Nairobi City County, Kenya
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2025-12-09
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Omae Kepha Nyamweya
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PAC University
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The stability of an organization is very critical since it provides an enabling environment for the accomplishment of organizational objectives. It has been observed that a number of organizations in Kenya and the world over have failed to actualize their mandates due to failure to observe and entrench crucial aspects such as succession planning in their strategic plans. Organizational leaders can make their organizations stable by applying proper and timely succession planning principles which have been tested over time and found to produce positive outcomes. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of succession planning on the stability of Evangelical Churches in Nairobi City County, Kenya. This relationship was moderated by the variable transformational leadership. The general objective of the study was to examine the effect of succession planning on church stability and this was moderated by transformational leadership style. The first specific objective was to establish the effect of mentorship on stability of the evangelical churches in Nairobi City County, Kenya. The second was to determine the effect of talent management on the stability of Evangelical churches in Nairobi City County, Kenya. The third objective was, to evaluate the effect of career management on the stability of Evangelical churches in Nairobi City County, Kenya. The fourth one was, to establish the effect of employee retention on the stability of Evangelical churches in Nairobi City County, Kenya and finally to determine the moderating effect of transformational leadership on the relationship between succession planning and the stability of Evangelical churches in Nairobi City County, Kenya. The study was anchored on the transformational leadership theory, servant leadership theory, authentic leadership theory, and organizational adaptability theory. A common denominator for all the theories is provision of quality services and considering everyone’s needs and interests. The research design used was a descriptive survey. The target population was 1200 church leaders comprising of Bishops or General Overseers, General Secretaries, Senior Pastors, and Senior Deacons from which 360 church leaders were selected using both purposive and random sampling techniques. Data was collected using both closed and open-ended questionnaires and analyzed using descriptive analysis, inferential statistics- using SPSS Version 27 and content analysis. Data was presented in the form of tables, figures, and narrations. It was hypothesized that a positive and significant relationship exists between succession planning variables and the moderating role of transformational leadership variable on the stability of Evangelical Churches in Nairobi City County, Kenya. The study found that majority of the church leaders used mentorship to prepare upcoming leaders to take up leadership roles. The study established that succession planning had both a positive and significant association with the stability of evangelical church organizations. This association was strengthened by the moderating variable transformational leadership. The study recommends that church leadership needs to strengthen the instruments of succession planning, establish, institute & enhance transformational leadership style in order to realise institutional stability.