Author(s): Hamdan S. Al-Awamleh
This study aims to identify the impact of strategic leadership competencies (strategic thinking, strategic planning, strategic relationships and communication, strategic leadership style) on the effectiveness of Jordanian public institutions, from the perspective of some institutional effectiveness measurement approaches and from the standpoint of managers. The study population consists of (8) government institutions with (280) managers and conducted a comprehensive survey on them, which resulted in (169) terms suitable for analysis. The study relied on the analytical quantitative descriptive approach to analyze the responses of study sample members using the SPSS software, and the study reached several results with the most important are:
• The existence of strategic leadership competencies in the Jordanian public institutions that ranged between medium and high, at the minimum scale limit.
• The existence of aslightly high level of Jordanian public institutions effectiveness from the perspective of goals achievement, environment adaptability, and beneficiaries’ satisfaction approaches.
• The existence of strategic competencies on the effectiveness of Jordanian public institutions.
The study recommended the importance to develop strategic competencies for the leadership of Jordanian public institutions and relyon them to increase its effectiveness. Study also recommended drawing researchers’ attention to conduct additional studies related to the study topic, from the standpoint of other parties and other approaches for the effectiveness of possibly different results, and to achieve the benefit of public institutions work for different sectors and society.