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Made By:
Avinash kumar
Pooja Jain
SukritiEsha Narang
Ashutosh Sharma
Vishu Gaba
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Strategic Leadership
Ability to lead towards the achievement of itsobjectives.
Tasks involved are:
Anticipate, envision, maintain flexibility and empower
others to create strategic change.
Strategic Leaders
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Levels of Strategic Leaders
Corporate Level
Business Level
Functional Level
Operational Level
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Role Of Strategic Leaders
CEO
Chief architectoforganizationalpurpose
Organizationalleader
Chief
administrator Communicator
oforganizationalpurpose
Top Manager
Implementationof strategies
Periodicevaluation ofperformance
Assist the BOD
Form
committees,work groups,etc.
Business LevelExecutives
Profit centers ordivisional heads
Authority withina SBU
Coordination ofdifferent SBUs
Review of
performance ofSBUs
Functional &Operational Mgrs
Implements thedecisions ofcorporate &business levelmanagers
Followers ofpolicy guidelines
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Tasks of Strategic Leaders Determining strategic
direction.
Effectively managing the organizational resources.
Sustaining an effective organizational culture.
Emphasizing ethical practices.
Establishing balanced organizational control.
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Styles of Strategic LeadersAutocratic
Democratic
Laissez- Faire Nurturing-Task
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QuizWhat leadership style suits best for an organization?
Which leadership style is suitable for introducing asmaller change?
Which leadership style is suitable for introducing a bigchange?
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Corporate Culture
It is a set of assumptions that members of anorganization share in common.
The beliefs and behaviors that determine how a
company's employees and management interact and
handle outside business transactions.
A company's culture will be reflected in its dress code,business hours, office setup, employee benefits,
turnover, hiring decisions, treatment of clients, client
satisfaction and every other aspect of operations.
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Corporate Culture is often referred to as Organizational
DNA or Organizational Soul.
It is the fundamental contributor of the success or failureof corporate strategies.
Reflected in companys
values, business principles and ethical standards
relationships with stakeholders
approaches to people management and problem
solving
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Impact of Culture on Corporate Life Culture affects not only the way managers behave
within an organization but also decisions they make
about the organization's relationship with its
environment and its strategy.
Corporate Culture acts as strength- Facilitatecommunication, 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 ofidentity.
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Impact of Culture on two different groups of
organizationsDimensions
Nature of desired
managerial skills &
capabilities
Actual performanceor results achieved
Multinational
subsidiaries
Professional
Qualifications and
rank
Seniority ,conformity
to values and
loyalty
Family businesses &
NRIscompanies
Demonstrated skills,
depth and quality
of knowledge
Innovation, thinking
and upgradation
of knowledge
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Managerial style of
planning &
decision making
Management
systems adopted
Nature of
management
control
Information gathering,
bureaucratic mode
of functioning, risk
aversion and non-entrepreneurial
decision making
Use of elegant,
sophisticated and
rational systems
which degenerate
due to low usage
Comprehensive,
formal and written
reporting
Selective information
usage and intuitive
and quantitative
decision making ofentrepreneurial
nature
Reliance on business
sense and no-frills
systems geared to
quick action
Primary use of verbal
reporting and
remedial action
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Strategy Culture Relationship
Strategy drives focus and direction while culture is the
emotional, organic habitat in which a companysstrategy lives or dies
Strategy is just the headline on the companys storyculture needs a clearly understood common language
to embrace and tell the story that includes mission,vision, values, and clear expectations
Strategy lays down the rules for playing the game, andculture fuels the spirit for how the game will be
played Strategy is imperative for differentiation, but a vibrant
culture delivers the strategic advantage
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Approaches to create strategy-supportive culture
To Ignore Corporate Culture
To Adapt Strategy Implementation to Suit CorporateCulture
To Change the Corporate Culture to Suit Strategic
Requirements
To Change the Strategy to Fit the Corporate Culture
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CORPORATE POWER AND POLITICSAlliances and coalitions in organizations
compete for resources
Power impacts organizational life work attitude
motivation
communication
retention
Knowing how power functions is important
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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.
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POWER/LEADERSHIP/
AUTHORITY RELATIONSHIPPower is closely related to leadership and authority
Leadership
Authority Power
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TYPES OF POWERReward Power- arises from the ability of managers to
reward positive outcomes
Coercive Power (punishment power)- arises from the
ability of managers to penalize negative outcomes
Legitimate Power (authority)-arises from the ability ofmangers to use position to influence behavior
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Referent Power (charisma)- arises from the ability of
managers to create liking among subordinates due to
charisma or personality
Expert Power- arises from the managers competence,
knowledge and expertise that is acknowledged by others
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POLITICSThose 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.
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POLITICS The use of power to influence
decisions that achieve desired
outcomes.1. Self-interest
2. Decision-making process
Uncertainty & disagreement
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Why do we have politics? Different ideas, values, interests and goals
Limited resources (money etc.)
Outcome is not clearly defined
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The Dark Side of
Power and Politics
Power and politics often havenegative 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.
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The Bright SideManagers can use power to controlpeople 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 decision-
making process to help promote new,
more appropriate organizationalgoals.
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Strategic Use of Power and PoliticsMintzbergs view
Corporate politics is neither inherently good nor bad
Though most of the times corporate politics leads todivisiveness 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 strategyimplementation
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Mintzberg says that the organization must..pull apart
before it can pull together again
In other words, strategists need to know when to use powerand 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
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Tactics to deal with power and
politics First of all, to accept the inevitability of politics being
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 emanatingfrom different parts of the organization
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To know when to tread softly and rely on coalition
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
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To reward organizational commitment and penalize negative
or indifferent attitude
To practice principled politics and use openness and honestyto counter and unprincipled politics
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