Strategic Management and Strategic Leadership


Strategic management is “a set of activities directed at an organization’s resources human, financial, physical, and information) with the aim of achieving organizational goals in an efficient and effective manner” (Murphy, 2017).  Strategic leadership is “a set of processes used to get members of the organization to work together to advance the interest of the organization” (Griffin, 1999).

 Table 1- Difference between strategic Management and Strategic leadership











Strategic management plays a passive process which seeks to keep employees in line, but strategic leaders develop vision advancement by identifying the areas needed to be improved and develop clear systemic plans for company success. While both styles should be goal oriented, strategic leadership is more oriented than strategic management. Because managers know excising goals but will not actively strive to reach the goals in question but, leaders create strategies to existing goals in question. 
Figure 1- Differences between Strategic Management and Strategic Leadership (Murphy, 2017) 

Another main difference as shown above in figure  is that strategic management mainly focus on the authority of organization in a compliance manner and strategic leadership focus on willingness of followers in a private acceptance manner. According to Murphy (2017), there is a strategic manager inside a strategic leader but all the managers might not be leaders. In today many strategic manages try to develop leadership skills in order to become a good manager in business processes.

References 


Griffin, R. (1999). Management. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Murphy, R. (2017). Strategic Leadership vs. Strategic Management. Untying The Gordian Knot , 4-8.



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