Strategic leadership.

Strategic leadership

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Summary......................................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................2
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................2
A.C. 2.1 - Evaluate the relationship between strategic management and leadership..................2
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
A.C. 1.1 - Analyse the impact of the organisation’s culture and values on strategic leadership.4
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................5
A.C. 1.2 - Discuss how organisational specific, legal, regulatory and ethical requirements
impact on strategic leadership demands......................................................................................5
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................5
A.C. 1.3 - Evaluate current and emerging social concerns and expectations impacting on
strategic leadership in the organisation........................................................................................5
TASK 5............................................................................................................................................6
A.C. 2.2 - Evaluate leadership styles and their impact on strategic decisions............................6
A.C. 2.3 - Discuss why leadership styles need to be adapted in different situations..................7
A.C. 2.4 - Evaluate the impact of leadership styles on the organisation.....................................8
TASK 6............................................................................................................................................9
A.C. 3.1 - Evaluate two differing leadership strategies...............................................................9
A.C. 3.2 - Determine situational variables which could cause a change in leadership strategy..9
A.C. 3.3 - Analyse a leadership strategy to support organisational direction...........................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Leadership can be describe as the capability and potential of individual that will help in
influencing other as well as their performance. It is very important for organisation to have
effective leaders in organisation that increase capability and potential of other employees to work
in better ma manner (Covin and Slevin, 2017). Strategic leadership will support company and
its leaders to correctly manage employees along with this motivate them to perform business
operations in required manner. Strategic leaders are focused towards achievement of business
targets and improve productivity of business. Chosen company for this report is Airdri
organisation. This company was developed in 1974 and founded in Oxfordshire, U.K. Founder
of Airdri organisation is Peter Philipps and Peter Allen who were highly experienced and
entrepreneurial engineers. This report will include relationship between strategic management
and leadership. Impact on cultural of organisation and values of strategic leadership is
determined. Legal, regulatory and ethical requirements affect on leadership is analysed. Various
leadership styles and strategic decision is analysed. Apart from this different leadership
strategies are also analysed along with its support on organisational direction.
Summary
It has been analysed that leadership is one of the important part of organisation which will
lead to have significant impact on performance and efficiency of business. Senior manager of
company should have effective leadership skills in order to conduct strategic leadership practices
in correct and appropriate manner. Strategic leadership activities of organisation will be highly
influenced by organisational culture, ethics, values along with these legal and regulatory
requirements of business. Implementation of effective strategic leadership practices in business
will lead to have significant impact on performance of business. There are several leadership
styles that will lead to provide guidance to leaders for correctly managing different situation of
business. Leadership styles are used differently according to the situational needs and this will
help in providing better support to company (Rothaermel, 2016). It has been determined that
leadership style will lead to have pros and cons for business. It is crucial for organisation to
create better leadership strategy for organisation in order to improve its performance as well as
achieving business objective.
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