Strategic awareness deals with determining plan- ning objectives, organizing the planning team(s), and
obtaining top management commitment. Following Theory Y, greater autonomy for determining planning objectives would lead subsidiary managers to having greater feelings of ownership of the objectives, greater commitment to them, and greater responsibility for their success, which in turn would increase the man- agers’ determination to make the planning effort more effective. On the other hand, lack of autonomy for de- termining planning objectives would lead to feelings of resentment in subsidiary managers because they would see the planning objectives as being imposed by the parent rather than owned by the subsidiary. Therefore, they may be less cooperative and less committed to carrying them out, and as a result, the planning effort would be less effective.