GLOBALIZATION AND LEADERSHIP CHALLENGES
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management involves taking the strategic planning process and extending it into an ongoing management paradigm of anticipating and managing organizational change and environmental uncertainty.” Paul Joyce (2015) emphasized a necessity of the awareness of the situation, challenging people to change, understanding and managing stakeholders in strategic management. One important aspect of leadership must deal with globalization, visions, the demand for outsourcing, competitiveness, ethical leadership, and transformational leadership. Strategic management requires visionary skills to predict the future and take appropriate action to deal with environmental challenges. Strategic public leaders have to undertake a thorough Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis to develop action plans for future plans. Through the use of strategic planning, the agencies can assess the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Leadership must take advantage of the opportunities that may arise as a result of globalization, and at the same time, deal with the threats. Globalization and new technology have made many of the services and tasks of the government obsolete. Therefore, the leadership is responsible for predicting the future development and take appropriate actions to deal with possible threats. Threats can arise due to political, economic, and technological changes. Politically, emergence of a hostile government in which another country has a substantial investment can pose a serious threat. Any act of terrorism, war, and political turmoil can disrupt smooth operations. Leadership is responsible for taking appropriate actions to deal with the situation and take actions so that the effects are minimal. Similarly, economic fluctuations can pose serious threats to the well-being of society. A major recession can ruin the lives of many people with devastating results. The leadership has the responsibility to be prepared for the possible consequences of the economic disaster. The other threat is technological change, which may have serious consequences. If technology replaces some products or services, it can create massive unemployment. Therefore, the leadership is under pressure to take appropriate steps to deal with unemployment by creating an alternative product, and services. A strategic leader needs to predict the situation and take measures rather than react to the situation. Therefore, a strategic leader must evaluate the opportunities and the threats to be prepared for the situation and make proper decisions. The leaders have a responsibility to socialize the team with organizational visions and goals, and, simultaneously, to create the support system to achieve the goals. Pickering and Brokaw (2007) suggest the use of six
