Archive | Indian Management Thought & Practices

Inspirational Leadership : (1)     Provide an inspiring vision and launch a crusade. (2)     Help people to connect their personal to organisational goals. (3)     Make relentless innovations, a religion. (4)     Encourage entrepreneurship, creativity and experimentation. (5)     Involve everyone, empower and trust employees. (6)     Coach and train people to greatness. (7)     Build team and promote [...]

Super Leadership Style : These leaders lead others to lead themselves. They help each of their followers to develop into an effective self-leader by providing them with the behavioural and cognitive skills necessary to exercise self-leadership. Self-leaders establish values, model, encourage, reward, and in many other ways foster self-leadership in individuals, teams and wider organisational [...]

Leadership Style Required in 21st Century : Earlier HR people used to evaluate a person on the basis of two quotients – Intelligence Quotient (IQ) and Emotional Quotient (EQ). IQ measures logical and reasoning power of an individual while EQ measures the degree to which an individual is empathetic, compassionate and respond appropriately to pleasures [...]

Transformational Style : Herein, leaders change the attitude of the employees in such a manner that followers align their goals with the goals of the organisation. He changes their mindset and motivates them, builds up team spirit, and creates a positive synergy. To transform their mind-set, leaders arouse their self-esteem and remind them of their [...]

Situational Style : Depending upon the situation and the follower’s mentally, the leader adopts a style which is suitable in the given situation. He is quite open and adaptable. He is at ease in any situation. Depending on the demand of the situation, the situational style of leadership can either be democratic, goal-oriented, supportive or [...]

Transactional Leadership : A transactional leader focuses more on series of transactions with his subordinates and instills a sense of duty among them with rewards and punishments (carrot and stick policy). It focuses on basic management processes of controlling, organizing and short-term planning. He works within the framework of organization goals. The power of this [...]

Bureaucratic Style : Here, the leaders believe in following rules and regulations. They believe in maintain status-quo. Basically, they believe in centralized decision-making. They do not like any innovation and flexibility. Sometimes, they are more oriented towards processes without bothering about results. These leaders are not employee-oriented. This style of leadership is suitable for government [...]

Functional/Intellectual : Herein, leaders are quite knowledgeable, experienced, professionals and experts in their field. The followers/employees respect their leaders for their expertise, seek their advice and are eager to listen and act; they are regarded as father figures or mentors. Such style of leadership is suitable for an R&D organization or educational institutes where employees [...]

Laissez-faire style : Leaders give complete independence to their followers to play their role. They believe in theory of motivation that some individuals are self-motivated and they should be given direction only when situation demands/only when followers ask. This style is called management by exception.

Democratic Leadership : Democratic leaders believe in participative style of management, and involve the followers in decision-making. He has a liberal attitude and is open to ideas. He has faith in his employees/followers. Because of these traits, he is supported and respected by his followers. He believes in team spirit and thus believes in ‘Us [...]