Strategic Leadership: Importance, Role of Leaders, Values and Ethics

Strategic leadership
Contents

INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK1.............................................................................................................................................1
Define strategic leadership and importance of them in context of respective organisation...1
Leadership approaches...........................................................................................................2
Explain role of leaders in strategic development...................................................................3
Review values and ethics of leadership in driving consumer social responsibility &
sustainability...........................................................................................................................4
TASK2.............................................................................................................................................5
Define role of leader in driving organisational performance.................................................5
Exercise leadership power and influence critically................................................................6
Critically evaluate features and requirements of development of leadership for competitive
benefits...................................................................................................................................7
Develop criteria for measuring strategic effectiveness of organisation from leadership
perspective..............................................................................................................................8
TASK3.............................................................................................................................................9
Describe the importance of team and team leadership towards organisational performance.9
Explain differences between workgroup teams and leadership critically............................10
Provide a comparison between formal and informal groups in winder organisational concept.
..............................................................................................................................................12
Discuss group and team development stages and role of leadership in enhancing performance
of teams & groups critically.................................................................................................13
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
Strategic leadership is defined as the potential of manager to express a strategic vision of
an enterprise and a part of business and to motivate, encourage and persuade individuals to
acquire that specified vision (Business strategy, 2020). It is an important part of any business
entity that has prominent impact on performance of human resources as well as entire
organisation.
Tonye Patrick Cole is co-founder and former group executive director of” Sahara
Group”. He was born in 1967. Sahara group is a multinational leading energy and infrastructure
conglomerate with operation over 38 nations across Africa, Europe, Middle East and Asia. The
company founded in 1996 with it’s headquartering in Lagos. Currently it has more than 4500
employees who perform their duties for specialities in oil, gas, energy, power, infrastructure,
facility management, electricity distribution and some more.
This report is based on strategic leadership with considering of leadership approaches,
role of leaders in strategy development of firm, values and ethics in driving CSR. Further leaders
roles in driving organisational performance, power and influence of leaders, features &
requirement of leadership in competitive advantage of firm and criteria is evaluate in terms of
measuring leadership effectiveness. In addition teams and team leadership in organisational
performance, distinct between workgroup and team leadership, comparison between formal &
informal teams and stages of group and team development are considered within report.
TASK1
Define strategic leadership and importance of them in context of respective organisation.
Strategic leadership
It is refers as ability that encourage and influence others to make decisions that increase
the prospects for organisation’s long term success while managing and retaining short term
financial stability of business. The main objective of strategic leadership is to ensure strategic
productivity of firm in order to create environment in which employees forecast organisational
needs with respect to their own jobs and duties (Akter and at. al., 2016).
Importance of strategic leadership
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