Abstract
The public sector in Jordan is confronting many problems; reports show that citizens are not contented with the number and quality of current services. Consequently; persistent initiatives to uphold the sector performance took place at all levels, relying on the inventive employees and leadership to achieve the intended improvement. So this study seeks to test the impact of strategic leadership (charismatic, visionary, change agent and servant) on building entrepreneurial orientation (proactiveness, innovativeness and risk taking) in Jordanian public sector employees.A random sample was selected of 500 employees working at health, education, agriculture and other service governmental organizations. To obtain the required results multiple regression was calculated using (21) SPSS version.It was found that the charismatic, change agent, servant styles positively influence employees proaciveness, with no influence on the other two entrepreneurship dimensions. While visionary style has no significant influence on all entrepreneurship dimensions. However the public sector reform is achievable, through comprehensive strategies, successful implementation, and effective continuous control. Innovative departments need to be established and financed away from bureaucratic environments.
Highlights
It is known that one of the public sector responsibilities and at the same time challenges in any country is to provide citizens with basic services on time and at satisfactory level of quality (Jarrar & Schiuma, 2007; Northcott & Ma'amora, 2012)
There is no particular measure of strategic leadership, literature pointed that one leadership style will not be convenient to run the organization’s future, a compound style of traits, skills, capabilities, values can be appropriate to lead public sector’s organizations
The researcher used charismatic, visionary, change agent and servant styles together to describe strategic leader’s features. When it comes to the dependent variables, Miller’s (1983) model of utilized to characterize employees’entrepreneurial orientation
Summary
Sahar Mohammad Abu Bakir1 1Associate Professor, BusinessAdministration Department, Faculty of Business, Amman Arab University, Jordan Correspondence: Sahar Mohammad Abu Bakir, Associate Professor, Business Administration Department, Faculty of Business, Amman Arab University, Jordan
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