Influence of Strategic Leadership on Financial Sustainability of NGOs in Kenya

Abstract

Purpose: Strategic leadership is capability of the leadership to keep on reinventing motives for the organization's sustained presence. The leader must have the ability to focus on the organization's operational activities and at the same time monitor the changes that affect the organization, both internally and externally. Such changes are bound to determine the existence of the organization in the future and they are prospects to grow the firm. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the influence of strategic leadership on financial sustainability of NGOs in Kenya.

Methodology: A desktop literature review was used for this purpose. Relevant seminal references and journal articles for the study were identified using Google Scholar. The inclusion criteria entailed papers that were not over 10 years old.

Findings: Strategic leadership requires expertise in managing both internal and external business environment and engage in a complex information processing. Strategic leadership is not only concerned with the possession of unique abilities that allows for the absorption and learning of new information and ideas, but having the adaptive capacity to appropriately respond to the dynamism and complexity of the external environment. Strategic leadership actions significantly influence performance. The study concludes that there is a positive relationship between the use of strategic planning and organizational performance in today's corporate environment.

Unique Contribution to Theory, Policy and Practice: The researcher recommended that balanced organizational controls should be effectively applied to realize good performance. The findings also recommended NGOs leaders should use the strategic leadership well since they are likely to improve their organizational performance significantly.