Developing Strategic Management And Leadership Skills Assignments
MBA ROUTE - ALEXANDRIA Developing Strategic Management and Leadership Skills
Strategic Management & Leadership Skills Assignment
“Leaders Redesigning - Nissan”
Assignment Date: 28th March 2015
Prepared By :
Ragy Abdel Alim Ahmed Ahmed
Student No. :
EGY0514
Task 1
Acting as a new management and leadership consultant for Nissan the following tasks have to be finalized:
Section 1.1:
Discuss and explain the link between strategic management and leadership in an organization.
First let’s define the meaning of Strategic Management and leadership and how they are linked in organization.
Strategic Management: “The art and science of formulating, implementing, and evaluating cross-functional decisions that enable an organization to achieve its objectives.” (Fred R. David, 2011)”
In other words strategic management involves 3 major activities:
1. Strategy Formulation (Planning).
2. Strategy Implementation (Organizing, Motivating & Staffing).
3. Strategy Evaluation (Controlling).
And in order to set an objective, analyze competitive environment, analyze organization position and formulate and evaluate a strategy a leader is needed to drive, so let’s define the leadership.
Leadership: a process of social influence in which a person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task.”(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership)”
So a leader must have the required skills and knowledge to derive a strategy and direct the followers in order to achieve the goals.
But in order for a leader to create a strategy the following questions have to be answered:
1. What is the organization current position?
2. Where we want to be?
3. How to be there?
Inline while answering these questions the Leader must have some skills in order to perform the strategy, according to Minzberg ten managerial roles are divided under three categories:
1. Interpersonal Roles (Leader role, Figurehead role, Liaison role).
2.
Strategic Management & Leadership Skills Assignment
“Leaders Redesigning - Nissan”
Assignment Date: 28th March 2015
Prepared By :
Ragy Abdel Alim Ahmed Ahmed
Student No. :
EGY0514
Task 1
Acting as a new management and leadership consultant for Nissan the following tasks have to be finalized:
Section 1.1:
Discuss and explain the link between strategic management and leadership in an organization.
First let’s define the meaning of Strategic Management and leadership and how they are linked in organization.
Strategic Management: “The art and science of formulating, implementing, and evaluating cross-functional decisions that enable an organization to achieve its objectives.” (Fred R. David, 2011)”
In other words strategic management involves 3 major activities:
1. Strategy Formulation (Planning).
2. Strategy Implementation (Organizing, Motivating & Staffing).
3. Strategy Evaluation (Controlling).
And in order to set an objective, analyze competitive environment, analyze organization position and formulate and evaluate a strategy a leader is needed to drive, so let’s define the leadership.
Leadership: a process of social influence in which a person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task.”(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership)”
So a leader must have the required skills and knowledge to derive a strategy and direct the followers in order to achieve the goals.
But in order for a leader to create a strategy the following questions have to be answered:
1. What is the organization current position?
2. Where we want to be?
3. How to be there?
Inline while answering these questions the Leader must have some skills in order to perform the strategy, according to Minzberg ten managerial roles are divided under three categories:
1. Interpersonal Roles (Leader role, Figurehead role, Liaison role).
2.
References: 2. Nissan (1999) Annual Report. 3. Nissan (2002) Annual Report. 4. John Adair (2007) Develop Your Leadership Skills. 1st edition 5 8. Bret L. Simmons (2009) Leadership Credibility. Available from: http://www.bretlsimmons.com/2009-06/leadership-credibility/ 9