Volume : IV, Issue : II, February - 2015

Leadership Styles and Influence Strategies: A Study

Dr Venkatachalam Jonnadula

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The study used questionnaire survey data from a sample of 300 superiors and 300 subordinates representing three organizations i.e., Banks, Schools and Government Organizations. The present study examined the effect of the use of influence strategies used by the superiors on the subordinates' perception of their superior's leadership styles. The stepwise multiple regression analysis revealed that nurturant-task leadership style significantly contributed to showing dependency strategy in banks, personalized help strategy in schools and assertion strategy in government organizations. Participative leadership style to the assertion strategy in schools, and expertise & reasons strategy in government organizations. Bureaucratic leadership style to the expertise & reasons, upward appeal, and assertion strategies in government organizations. Authoritarian leadership style to the assertion strategy in schools, and exchange & challenge, personalised help, and coalition & manipulation strategies in government organizations.

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Dr Venkatachalam Jonnadula Leadership Styles and Influence Strategies: A Study International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol : 4, Issue : 2 February 2015

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