WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR MAKING STRATEGIC PLAN AND DECISIONS?
Strategic planning is the responsibility of strategic management as it involves overriding issues facing organizations, strategic planning is concerned with planning, directing, organizing and controlling of a company’s strategy-related decisions and actions. The reasons for this are: • Strategic issues require top management decision. • Strategic issues require large amounts of a company’s resources. • Strategic issues are future oriented. • Strategic issues often affect the company’s long-term success. • Strategic issues usually have multiple consequences. • Strategic issues deals with macro environment. We have three levels of management that makes decisions at difficult levels of the corporate hierarchy. They are: (1) Strategic management: this is the management team that operates at the corporate level of a business. Board of directors, chief executive and administrative officers are the principal members of this level of management. Their decisions are unstructured. (2) Tactical