Strategic Leadership Practices and Organizational Effectiveness: An Exploratory Study of Nigeria's Public Sector
Abstract
The effectiveness of Public Sector organizations is dependent on the leadership strategy, leadership quality and capacity to influence improvements considered vital in enhancing performance of the public sector. The study examined strategic leadership practices and organizational effectiveness in Nigeria’s Public Sector. The objectives were to examine the effect of strategic leadership practices on organizational effectiveness, to find out the role of strategic leadership in promoting organizational effectiveness; to explore strategic leadership characters and their implications to organizational effectiveness; and to assess the challenges of strategic leadership in Nigeria’s public sector. The study employed qualitative content analysis as a methodology. Findings revealed that strategic leadership principles drives organizational effectiveness; that strategic leadership roles performance promotes effectiveness and service delivery in public organization; that possession of strategic leadership characters by leaders ensures effectiveness and sustainability of organizations, and that Nigeria’s public sectors are bedeviled by corruption and ethical misconducts that restrict effectiveness and development. The study therefore, recommended employment of individual with proven strategic leadership principles into public sectors, ensuring that public sector leaders perform strategic roles, public sector should be managed by leaders who possess unique strategic leadership characters, and that public sectors should be repositioned through legislations to stamp out corruption and all unethical misconducts that impeded effectiveness and development.