Organizational Climate and Strategic Leadership in Industry 4.0

Abstract

Strategic leadership and organizational climate have been made more important by the Industry 4.0 revolution. Strategic leadership and organizational climate enable businesses to adapt easily to rapidly changing environmental conditions and innovations for sustainability. Therefore, the role of strategic leaders is important in creating an organizational climate to manage and implement strategic changes and also in the preparation and implementation of roadmap to design the future of the business in Industry 4. 0. This study aims to discuss the strategic leadership skills in creating the organizational climate in Industry 4.0. The authors found that there is a relationship between organizational climate and strategic leaders' skills in Industry 4.0. Understanding the relationship between the skills of strategic leaders and organizational climate is essential to uncovering the critical links to firm performance to get competitive advantage in Industry 4.0. Strategic leadership is a key interpreter of how climate of the organization links to the wider systems and requires leadership systems.

Emergent in Strategic Management, Theories, and Strategic Leadership: Implications of Absorptive, Adaptive, and Managerial Manifold Wisdom

“…This clarifies that strategic leader as a multifunctional and dynamically translating business organization goals and objectives into reality through synergistic supports and involvement of the organizational citizen (Hitt et al, 2012;Hunitie, 2018;Jaleha & Machuki, 2018;Nwachukwu & Vu, 2020;Calabrò et al, 2021). In accentuation, strategic leadership at strategic management possesses prompt managerial skills, knowledge, ability, competency, and experience in managing internal and external turbulence in the business environment and accomplishing firm predetermined strategic plans (Deeboonmee & Ariratana, 2014;Quadri, 2018;Ervin et al, 2018;Mukhezakule & Tefera, 2019;Tetik & Akkaya, 2021). Strategic leadership reiterates the driving force behind sound strategic management performance through indisputable involvement, commitment, passion, creativity, innovation, effective information dissemination, due procedure, workforce development, magnificent decisional choices, role-taking, and empathy toward achieving organizational competitiveness and sustainable performance in the dynamically heterogeneous and heterogonous marketplace (Peter et al, 2018;Bhattacharyya & Jha, 2018;Hunitie, 2018;Rahman et al, 2018;Abatecola & Cristofaro, 2018;Seaton, 2018;Shao, 2019;Samimi et al, 2020).…”