A Behavioral Approach for Leader's Strategic Intelligence in the Organization

Nowadays, the leaders of the organizations need to acquire specific competence and traits to carry their organizational responsibility effectively in the national and international situations. One of the most significant competences is intelligence. In this regard, the leaders who perform intellectually in social, cultural, emotional, and cognitive fields are more successful than other leaders. This study thus, aims at measuring leaders’ strategic intelligence within organizations. For this purpose, a questionnaire was distributed among the employers of public organizations in Kohkiloye va Boyer Ahmad province. A descriptive analysis and structural equation modeling was used to analysis data. The results revealed that the leaders’ strategic intelligence was measured by practical, emotional, cultural and social intelligence as well as creativity, wisdom and Self-directedness. However, the results showed that creativity and practical intelligence had the greatest impact on measuring leaders’ intelligence. Moreover, the findings indicated that the selected leaders showed the medium level of intelligence in all dimensions of strategic intelligence indicating that they had the medium-leveled strategic intelligence. Furthermore, it was found that the increase in the managers’ educational degree and managerial experience lead to a good rise in their strategic intelligence.