Volume : I, Issue : II, October - 2012

Leadership Strategies & Business performance in top listed Indian companies

Rajendra K Gupta

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This paper is based on part of investigations carried on ‘Factors determining excellence in business in selected listed Indian companies’. Business excellence is expressed in terms of the best practices followed by the organizations and also the quality of business performance outcomes. Leadership strategies and practices are one of the most important determinants of business excellence. 30 important leadership strategies and actions followed by the successful organization globally were identified. The responses were obtained from a sample of 75 top performing Indian companies listed in stock markets. The sample frame was NSE500 companies. 29 key business performance indicators were also designed in 8 areas of results. The responses were obtained from the companies on 5 point Likert scale. The data were processed on SPSS and AMOS software packages to investigate effect of the leadership inputs on firm performance. Factors analysis, Correlation tests, median split t–test were conducted. It has been found that business excellence practices in leadership & strategies have strong influence on several business performance indicators. In path analysis, it was found that leadership practices influenced results directly or indirectly, through other business practices like Operations Structure & Resources, Operations Strategies etc. The processes and strategies identified can be very useful easy–to–use self evaluation and monitoring tool for any commercial organization to improve performance and competitiveness.

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Rajendra K Gupta Leadership Strategies & Business performance in top listed Indian companies Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.II, Issue.I October 2012

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