۱٫ Introduction

۲٫ Literature Review

۳٫ Methodology

۴٫ Results

۵٫ Conclusion

References

Leader always play as an integral part in our daily life. No matter where on earth we are living the elements of leadership always exists in one’s community. The purpose of this study is to investigate the importance of perceived leadership elements which is leadership decision making, leadership style, and leadership change flexibility. The study was done among the academic staff at one of public university in Malaysia. 150 questionnaires were administered among various levels of academic staff. Correlation analysis and regression analysis were perform, thus the result indicates that leadership decision making (r=0.55, p=0.001,) shows the highest of positive significant result toward strategic planning compared with other two variables. This research warrant more investigation upon strategic planning and other variables.

Introduction

The need of strategic planning has become more crucial in recent fast pace environment. Moreover in today’s business world, strategic planning has been put forth by most of the top management as an essential ingredient in organization to achieve its goal, objective, and also becomes a competitive advantage in order to survive. Top management plays pivotal role as a leader. According to Zacarro & Klimoski (2002), leadership is an important subject for almost many years in many fields especially in psychology. According to them, leadership was never a new concept as it has existed for more decades. Leadership has been plays a crucial part in organization in achieving its goal through a strategic planning towards increasing organizational performance (Zoogah, 2009; Phipps & Burbach, 2010). Moreover, leadership also acts as salient point in public sector in determining strategic performance and operating environment (McLeod, 2007). Previous researchers had mentioned how important leadership role in influencing organization climate, profitability, performance, strategic planning and sense of direction (McLeod, 2007; Holloway, 2012). However, there were lacks of studies that have been done in Malaysia according to this matter. Moreover according to Zaccaro & Klimoski, (2002), studies that have been conducted under the umbrella of leadership were disconnected and vague. It is supported by Ansari , Ahmad & Aafaqi (2004), leadership study continuously requires an expert in the organization. Therefore, it strengthens the part that this study is significant to be conducted. The main point of this study is to investigate the importance of leadership elements in strategic planning. This study seek the answers of leaderships elements in which is most had significant influence on strategic planning in a public university.