Strategic Leadership and Hiring Effective Leaders

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Abstract
Leadership can be considered as a crucial part of the organization and in order to ensure that the
firm is able to attain success in the long run, it is considerably important for the firm to seek
good leaders for the firm. A good leader ca be understood to have various advantages and in line
of this, the financial positioning as well as the overall brand image of the firm tends to increase.
Therefore, it is the duty of the Human resource department of any firm to ensure that they are
successfully able to hire the right kind of employees for itself and that it is also able to hire the
right leaders. The given research paper is based on the concept of Strategic Leadership and how
the organization often fails to target the right kind of leaders for itself. The paper discussed the
study with the help of four variables out of which the three Independent Variables were the
Management policies with respect to the Hiring of the Leaders, the inability of the management
to identify the right leader skills and the Organizational culture which has a sound impact on the
firm. The dependent variable was the Management problem in hiring effective leaders. The study
used the qualitative analysis techniques to collect the survey results and analyze the same. In line
of this, it was understood that if a firm wants to ensure success in the long run then in such a
case, it will be required to ensure that the different leaders are suitable for the overall purpose of
the firm and that, they are provided with adequate responsibility as a right leader is crucial for
the success of all firms.

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Table of Contents
Table of Figures...............................................................................................................................6
List of Tables...................................................................................................................................7
Chapter 1: Introduction....................................................................................................................9
1.1 Background of the project.....................................................................................................9
1.2 Problem statement...............................................................................................................11
1.3 Research aim........................................................................................................................13
1.4 Research Objectives.............................................................................................................13
1.5 Research Questions..............................................................................................................14
1.6 Research Hypothesis............................................................................................................15
1.7 Research rationale................................................................................................................16
1.8 Structure of the paper...........................................................................................................17
Chapter 2: Literature Review.........................................................................................................18
2.0 Overview..............................................................................................................................18
2.1 Dependant Variable: The management problem in in selecting effective leaders for key
management positions...............................................................................................................18
2.2 Conceptual framework.........................................................................................................20
2.3 Independent Variable 1: Management’s ignorance to 21st century leadership philosophy 20
2.4 Independent Variable 2: No proper management policy guideline on the selection process
of effective leaders.....................................................................................................................24

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2.5 Independent Variable 3: Organisation culture that prohibits the selection of effective
leaders........................................................................................................................................26
2.6 The impact of management ignorance to 21st century leadership philosophy, no valid
management guideline and Organizational culture on the management problem of selecting
effective leaders in a firm..........................................................................................................27
2.7 Summary..............................................................................................................................27
Chapter 3: Research Methodology................................................................................................29
3.0 Overview..............................................................................................................................29
3.1 Research Outline..................................................................................................................29
3.2 The Research Questions......................................................................................................30
3.3 Research Philosophy............................................................................................................31
Justification of the research philosophy chosen....................................................................31
3.4 Research Approach..............................................................................................................32
Justification of the research approach chosen.......................................................................32
3.5 Research Design..................................................................................................................32
Justification for the research design chosen..........................................................................33
3.6 Research Strategy................................................................................................................33
Justification for the research Strategy chosen.......................................................................34
3.7 Sampling technique.............................................................................................................34
Justification for the Sampling technique chosen...................................................................34

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3.8 Data collection.....................................................................................................................35
Justification for the Data collection method chosen..............................................................35
3.9 Data analysis........................................................................................................................35
Justification for the Data analysis method chosen.................................................................36
3.10 Ethical considerations........................................................................................................36
3.11 Accessibility issues............................................................................................................37
3.12 Summary...........................................................................................................................37
Chapter 4: Data Analysis and Interpretation.................................................................................38
4.1 Introduction..........................................................................................................................38
4.2 Variables..............................................................................................................................39
4.3 Descriptive Statistics...........................................................................................................40
4.4 Inferential statistics..............................................................................................................68
4.5 Discussion............................................................................................................................72
4.6 Summaries to the Chapter....................................................................................................72
Chapter 5: Conclusion...................................................................................................................73
5.0 Introduction..........................................................................................................................73
5.1 Conclusion...........................................................................................................................74
5.2 Limitations of the study.......................................................................................................76
5.3 Linking to Objectives..........................................................................................................77
5.4 Recommendations for future research.................................................................................77

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5.5 Summary..............................................................................................................................78
Chapter 6: Recommendations........................................................................................................79
6.1 Corporate Level...................................................................................................................79
6.2 Daily operational recommendations....................................................................................81
6.3 Future recommendations: Change in the policy of the firm................................................82
References......................................................................................................................................83
Table of Figures
List of Tables

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Table of Figures
Figure 1: A strategy for leadership growth......................................................................................9
Figure 2: Mixing and Managing four generation of employees....................................................10
Figure 3: CMI 21st Century Leaders research...............................................................................12
Figure 5: The Gender of the respondents......................................................................................41
Figure 6: The Age group of the respondents.................................................................................42
Figure 7: The Educational level of the respondents......................................................................43
Figure 8: The work experience of the respondents........................................................................44

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List of Tables
Table A: Hofstede Theories...........................................................................................................29
Table 1: The Pilot Test..................................................................................................................42
Table 2: Respondent data...............................................................................................................47
Table 3: The Decision-making process undertaken by the HR.....................................................47
Table 4: The Decision making process undertaken by the HR.....................................................48
Table 5: The Respondent Data......................................................................................................49
Table 6: Attitudes and Behavior....................................................................................................49
Table 7: Attitudes and Behavior....................................................................................................50
Table 8: The respondent Data........................................................................................................51
Table 9: Decision making autonomy.............................................................................................52
Table 10: Decision making autonomy...........................................................................................52
Table 11: The Respondent Data....................................................................................................53
Table 12: Obsession with the Power.............................................................................................54
Table 13: Obsession with the Power.............................................................................................55
Table 14: Data responses...............................................................................................................56
Table 15: Morale of the employees...............................................................................................56
Table 16: Morale of the employees...............................................................................................57
Table 17: Data responses collected................................................................................................58
Table 18: Need of effective leaders...............................................................................................59
Table 19: Need of effective leaders...............................................................................................59
Table 20: Data response collected.................................................................................................60
Table 21: Integrity of Leadership..................................................................................................61