Situational Awareness in Leadership: Application of Methods in Business Organisations

Virginija Ramašauskienė, Erika Župerkienė () and Ligita Šimanskienė ()
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Virginija Ramašauskienė: Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Klaipeda University, S. Neries Str. 5, LT-92227 Klaipeda, Lithuania
Erika Župerkienė: Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Klaipeda University, S. Neries Str. 5, LT-92227 Klaipeda, Lithuania
Ligita Šimanskienė: Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Klaipeda University, S. Neries Str. 5, LT-92227 Klaipeda, Lithuania

Administrative Sciences, 2025, vol. 15, issue 6, 1-19

Abstract: This study analysed the leadership approaches that determine one of the components of organisational resilience: situational awareness in business organisations. A lack of situational awareness in leadership results in poor decision making and low organisational resilience, which undermines the continuity and sustainability of the organisation’s activities. This observation prompts the following research question: which leadership methods enhance situational awareness and how are these methods effectively applied in business organisations? This study analysed the situational awareness requirements for leadership through leadership methods. With the help of mixed methods that integrate qualitative and quantitative approaches, an empirical study was conducted in eight European countries; in total, 30 leaders of business organisations were interviewed and 3370 employee questionnaires were analysed. The analysis identified the leadership methods that enhance situational awareness; it also presented the assumptions that determine the effectiveness of these methods. The relationship between leadership methods and situational awareness was found to be mediated by the interaction of the two elements of situational awareness with twelve leadership methods. These findings provide a structured approach to explaining how leadership methods affect situational awareness, thus complementing existing theoretical frameworks and encouraging the development of new theoretical models.

Keywords: leadership methods; situational awareness; organisational resilience; uncertainty; organisations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L M M0 M1 M10 M11 M12 M14 M15 M16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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