Empirical Study On The Relationship Between Strategic Leadership Of Top Managers And Performances In China Background

What the top managers should do to keep the company thriving and developing is a concern for the scholars and practical workers. It is a usual phenomenon that the overall performance of some of the company is much better than the other companies when they are faced with similar chances and threats, and some of the companies can keep its high profit when in poor conditions while some of the companies find it hard to maintain. More and more researchers are taking greater concern on the content and style of the strategy instead of the process of the strategy that the top managers carry out. The paper explores the components and dimensions of the strategic leadership of top managers in companies, the relationship between the strategic leadership and performances, and the influence of the fit issue between the strategic style and the strategic stage to the performances of the company.On the basis of the text research of the strategic leadership both home and abroad, the case analysis of the top managers of the 500 wealth, and the analysis of the advertisers for the top managers by the headhunters, a semi-structured interviews was made with 27 top managers of 13 enterprises to further confirm the components and the dimensions of the strategic leadership of the top managers in China. On the basis of the deep interview, the collected material was analyzed with the mentioned abilities coded so that the theoretical idea was drawn. The theoretical result showed that the strategic leadership included the five dimensions such as strategy vision, the strategy decision, strategy implementation, strategy driving and relationship-handling and 29 abilities.On the basis of the text analysis, the individual variables are added to the theoretical result to form "the Questionnaire for the Strategic Components of Top Managers in Enterprise". With enterprises within Hebei Province as samples, an analysis was made on the 229 valid questionnaires to explore and verify the components listed there. The result showed that the strategic leadership consisted of 5 dimensions and 24 abilities both models had acceptable convergent validities and discriminate validities. The top managers of enterprises differed greatly in individual elements such as sex, age, learning experiences and time in office.On the basis of "the Questionnaire for the Strategic Components of Top Managers in Enterprise", a performance questionnaire, and individual feature control variables and enterprises feature control variables were added. With the EMBA in Yangtze River Institute of Commerce and the EMBA in Beijing Institute of Commerce as samples, a multi-layer and multi-dimension performance mode was applied to analyze the 132 valid questionnaires. Correlation analysis, regression multi-analysis and the Canonical Correlation were applied to test the relationship between the strategic leadership of the top managers and their performances. The research showed:(1) The strategic leadership of the top managers influences the different dimensions performances of the company greatly.(2) The different dimensions of the strategic leadership influence the performance of the company greatly.(3 The strategic leadership influence the performance of the company greatly.On the basis of the check of the relationship between the strategic leadership of the top leaders and their performance, another questionnaire about the strategic style of the top managers and the stage of the enterprise was added to the same questionnaire. The ANOVA for Factoral Design was applied to check the influence of the fit issue between the strategic style and strategic stage on the performance of the company. The research showed:(1) With different fit issue between strategic style and strategic stage, the performance of company is different.(2) Good fit between strategic style and strategic stage of top managers leads to good performance of the company.The innovative leaders stand out at the rapid development stage. The leaders good at keeping the business excel at the steady development stage. Leaders excellent at expanding business perform the best at the strategic defending stage.At last, the article summarized the main conclusions of the research, and analyzed the theoretical development and the realistic significance, and pointed out the drawbacks in the research and the problems to be solved.