Situational strategic leadership in the administration of social sector businesses in Honduras

Abstract

Situational strategic leadership is the integral capacity that a leader has to create and anticipate actions, manage business resources, and respond to specific needs organizations in a given context, therefore, the manager is in charge for achieving the actions previously planned and incorporated into a business vision. The goal of this article was to determine whether the strategic leader that predominates in social enterprises has characteristics situations to perform actions and make decisions that affect the administration of social enterprises. A quantitative, non-experimental, cross-sectional, and correlational study was conducted. The specimens were 23 managers in charge of the management of a non-governmental non-profit association, located in the city of San Pedro Sula, Cortes. For the collection of the information, an adapted version of the Multifactorial Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) was used in 2018 by Vargas and other researchers (1), who in turn made an adaptation of the Multifactorial Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) used by Guillen in 2005 based on the MLQ designed in 1997 by Bass and Avolio. The instrument and its adaptation was validated by the judgment of two experts with the degree of Doctor of Business Administration. Data were analyzed with statistical inference using SPSS version 22 statistical software. The results obtained reveal that 95.65% of the leaders of the participating non-governmental organization have not developed the characteristic faces of leader situation, due to their scarce strategic academic training and therefore it is concluded that there are no characteristics of a situational strategic leader, because they are not able to respond to certain business contexts and as a consequence, they negatively affect the direction, planning and administrative management, preventing the achievement of previously planned objectives.