Strategic Leadership & Corporate Culture
Strategic Leadership & Corporate Culture
Strategic Leadership & Corporate Culture
Strategic Leadership
Ability to lead towards the achievement of its
objectives. Tasks involved are: Anticipate, envision, maintain flexibility and empower others to create strategic change. Strategic Leaders
Quiz
What leadership style suits best for an organization? Which leadership style is suitable for introducing a
smaller change? Which leadership style is suitable for introducing a big change?
Corporate Culture
It is a set of assumptions that members of an organization share in common. The beliefs and behaviors that determine how a company's employees and management interact and
business hours, office setup, employee benefits, turnover, hiring decisions, treatment of clients, client satisfaction and every other aspect of operations.
DNA or Organizational Soul. It is the fundamental contributor of the success or failure of corporate strategies. Reflected in companys
values, business principles and ethical standards relationships with stakeholders approaches to people management and problem
solving
about the organization's relationship with its environment and its strategy. Corporate Culture acts as strength- Facilitate communication, decision making and control and create cooperation and commitment. Corporate Culture is a weakness- employees do not have high sense of commitment, loyalty and sense of identity.
Actual performance or results achieved Seniority ,conformity Innovation, thinking to values and and upgradation loyalty of knowledge
Managerial style of Information gathering, Selective information bureaucratic mode usage and intuitive planning & of functioning, risk and quantitative decision making aversion and nondecision making of entrepreneurial entrepreneurial decision making nature Use of elegant, Reliance on business Management sophisticated and sense and no-frills systems adopted rational systems systems geared to which degenerate quick action due to low usage
Comprehensive, Primary use of verbal formal and written reporting and reporting remedial action
vision, values, and clear expectations Strategy lays down the rules for playing the game, and culture fuels the spirit for how the game will be played
Strategy is imperative for differentiation, but a vibrant
Approaches to create strategy-supportive culture To Ignore Corporate Culture To Adapt Strategy Implementation to Suit Corporate Culture To Change the Corporate Culture to Suit Strategic Requirements To Change the Strategy to Fit the Corporate Culture
compete for resources Power impacts organizational life work attitude motivation communication retention Knowing how power functions is important
WHAT IS POWER?
Interpersonal (or intergroup) relationship in which one individual (or group) can cause another individual (or group) to take an action that it would not otherwise take. Involves changing the behavior of another person A has power over person B if B believes A can force B to comply.
TYPES OF POWER
Reward Power- arises from the ability of managers to
POLITICS
Those activities taken within organizations to acquire,
develop, and use power and other resources to obtain ones preferred outcome in a situation where there is uncertainty of outcome.
POLITICS
The use of power to influence
decisions that achieve desired outcomes.
Power and politics often have negative connotations because people associate them with attempts to use organizational resources for personal advantage and to achieve personal goals at the expense of other goals.
Managers can use power to control people and other resources so that they cooperate and help to achieve an organizations current goals. Managers can use power to engage in politics and influence the decisionmaking process to help promote new, more appropriate organizational goals.
divisiveness that is not good for an organization, yet there are times when it needs to be shaken up in order to bring in changes Politics and power have a definite role to play in strategy implementation
before it can pull together again In other words, strategists need to know when to use power and politics to get things done and when to shun politics and use of power to maintain harmony. Politics and power affect the way strategy is implemented and formulated
there in the organization Understand how an organizations power structure works, who wields real power and influence and who are the individuals and groups whose opinions carry weight and cannot be disregarded To be sensitive and alert to political signals emanating from different parts of the organization
management and consensus building and when to push through decisions and actions To lead strategy and not to dictate it, being patient till consensus emerges To let most negative decisions emerge as a group consensus rather than as a directive from the top To gather support for acceptable proposals and let the unacceptable ideas die a natural death
or indifferent attitude To practice principled politics and use openness and honesty to counter and unprincipled politics