Volume : I, Issue : XI, August - 2012

Leadership Styles in Organizations an Empirical Study

Dr. S. Saraswathi

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Leadership is the key dynamic force that motivates and coordinates an organization to accomplish its objectives. A leader creates a vision for the others and then directs them towards achieving that vision. Leaders’ behavior is one of the keys to organizations success, because it strongly influences subordinates motivation and performance and also plays a critical role in driving change. Today, more than ever leadership behaviour is the critical to fostering a healthy culture and retaining the best people. Leaders achieve successful change by constantly balancing the two dimensions: concern for the task; and the concern for the people. The purpose of this paper is to explore leadership style in the organizations. A structured questionnaire was developed and administered to 50 leaders in various organisations. The research was limited to leaders in an organization. The aim of the study is to understand the leadership style adopted by the leaders to achieve the organizational objectives. The results show that the leaders had an autocratic style of leadership. For leaders to be effective, they would need to adapt their leadership style to the situation.

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Dr.S.Saraswathi Leadership Styles in Organizations an Empirical Study Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.I, Issue.XI August 2012

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