STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP

Introduction 

Mubarak (2019) defined that “Strategic leadership refers to a manager’s potential to express a strategic vision for the organization, or a part of the organization, and to motivate and persuade others to acquire that vision. Strategic leadership can also be defined as utilizing strategy in the management of employees”. 

Koustelios and Belias (2014) defined that “Strategic Leadership can be defined as the ability of the top level managers or executives to determine the future courses of action and direction of the firm and motivate the members to make efforts in that direction”. 

Importance of Strategic Leadership

According to Korbi (2015) strategic leadership has the ability to influence the employees of the organization during the execution of the change process. Strategic leaders create organizational structure while allocating limited resources among organizational activities to achieve the strategic vision. The components of strategic leadership include; 

Source: Korbi 2015

According to the above figure, strategic leadership concerns on environmental factors information systems, human resource development, policy formulation and internal controls of the organization during the change implementation (Fazlurrahman, 2018). The key characteristics of strategic leader include; 

• Setting the direction

• Strategic decision making

• Human capital management

• Translating strategies into actions

• Change Management

• Effective communication within the organization

• Ensuring efforts are made in the right direction.

• Developing strategic competencies.

• Framing policies and plans for the effective implementation of strategic decisions.

• Developing and maintaining a constructive work culture (Koustelios, 2014).

Strategic productivity is the main objective of a strategic leadership and it encourages employees to be more productive during the change or system implementation stage. Also, strategic leadership focuses to develop an environment in which employees forecast the organizational needs in context of their job roles (Asghar, 2010). Strategic leaders encourage creativity and innovation from subordinates in effective decision making process and effective change implementation process. Strategic leadership used a greater reward and incentive system to encourage employee productivity and quality of employees to ensure a better performance (Ashkanasy, 2006).

Conclusion 

Strategic leadership is effective in the change implementation process and top managers encourage leaders to follow a strategic leadership approach especially during strategic change execution. It is emphasized that strategic leadership is very important for the modern context of business organization since organizations cannot perform with similar organizational practices over the period of time. Leaders who follow strategic leadership approach help employees to become more innovative and creative. Therefore, it can be concluded that strategic leadership is the best leadership approach which can be used in the change implementation process to achieve the change objectives as well as success of the organization by creating favourable organizational culture.

References 

Asghar, I., 2010. The Role Of Leadership In Organizational Change. 

Ashkanasy, N. M., 2006. The Impact of Leadership and Change Management Strategy on Organizational Culture and Individual Acceptance of Change during a Merger. 

Fazlurrahman, H., 2018. The Mediating of Change Organization in the Effect of Strategic Leadership Style and Innovation. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 8(4).

Korbi, K., 2015. Leadership and Strategic Change. The Journal of Organizational Management Studies .

Koustelios.A & Belias.D, 2014. The impact of leadership and change management strategy on organizational culture. European Scientific Journal , 10(7).

Koustelios, A., 2014. The Impact Of Leadership And Change Management Strategy On Organizational Culture. European Scientific Journal , 10(7).

Mubarak, M. F., 2019. Impact Of Strategic Leadership On Strategy Implementation. British Journal of Mangement and Marketing Studies, 1(1).