Revue Organisation et Travail
Volume 10, Numéro 1, Pages 213-226
2021-04-27

Strategic Leadership Practices Of 21st Century And Business Performance

Authors : Bouhelal Fatima . Adouka Lakhdar .

Abstract

This research paper aims to know how are the strategic leadership practices of the 20th and 21st centuries in Algerian enterprises, from the aspect of strategic direction, exploiting and maintaining core competencies, developing human capital, sustaining an effective organization culture, emphasizing ethical practice, establishing balanced organizational controls, and also know the relationship between these leadership practices and business performance, as business performance was examined through two main areas, namely financial and market performance, and social performance, and the study was conducted by distributing a questionnaire to a group of Algerian SMEs using a sample consisting of 43 enterprises. The results indicated that the strategic leadership practices of the 21st century are the most concerned by the Algerian SMEs under study, and there was also a close relationship between these practices and performance.

Keywords

stategic leadership practices ; financial performance ; social performance