Strategic Management has significant role for East Java Province governmental organization in order
to improve public service quality. In the local autonomy era all the organizations are suited to be able to
make appropriate policies to anticipate environment change and to fulfill public demand of qualified service.
This research studies focus on factor that affect process of that strategic management. This research
proposed three variables, power, leadership and commitment. As ?explanatory reseach? this research aimed
to explain some problems which formulated as follow: (a) Does power influences to strategic management
at East Java Province governmental organization? (b) Does leadership influences to strategic management
at East Java Province governmental organization? (c) Does commitment influences to strategic management
at East Java Province governmental organization? By differing strategic management into three dimension:
formulation, implementation, and evaluation, then analyse that used ?Structural Equation Modelling?
(SEM) was very suitable because there were two analysis stages (Second Order Confirmatory). Despite, it
was wished contribution of the three dimensions of management would be studied. The respondents are 220
persons representing all the kind of East Java Province governmental organization: departement (dinas),
committee (badan), and office. According to result of study, it results several conclusions: a) the power and
leadership negatively affected strategic management. There were because of bureaucratic-centralistic power
and directive leadership, (b) the commitment affected strategic management, specifically on implementation
stage, (c) the leader can?t maximaized transforming existing power for success of strategic management, (d)
the strategic management can?t maximize improving public service because of there are the bureaucartic-centralistic
power and directive leadership.