Leadership Effectiveness of scientists in Indian Council of Agricultural Research
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Pub. Date
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Jan, 2013
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The IUP Journal of Organizational
Behavior
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Article
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IJOB21301
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R V Satyanarayana Rao, K H Rao, Ananta Sarkar,
Debasmita Mishra and M M Anwer
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Management
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Abstract
The leadership effectiveness has long been held to be of consequence for achieving performance outcomes in research organizations. In this study, leadership effective-ness was examined among scientists in the ICAR institutions. Multinomial logistic regression analysis results indicated that there is evidence to suggest that respondent’s designation, educational qualification, total experience and discipline group affect the leadership effectiveness. However, there is no evidence to suggest that respondent’s, age, gender, number of days of technical training and management training affect the leadership effectiveness. It is suggested that specific behaviors included under task and relationship dimensions need to be advocated and practiced for leadership development. The results also indicated that these groups of researchers need to receive training in understanding leadership skills. Once they realize the need to have more flexibility in their leadership styles, they would be able to use the appropriate style depending on the situation. Further study is required to understand which combination of attitude and behavior is likely to be most effective in research organizations.
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Leadership can be defined as the ability to influence others toward the accomplishment of specific goals (Prentice, 1961). In business organizations, ‘leadership’ is often contrasted with ‘management’. Management is typically defined as “getting things done through others.” In comparison, leadership refers to “getting others to do things” (Robert, 1996). Thus, leadership is intimately tied up with motivating and influencing others.
In the emerging views of leadership, leaders are to be committed to “creating a world to which people want to belong.” This commitment demands a special set of abilities for inspiring people to effectively and ecologically manifest the visions. It involves communicating, interacting, networking and managing relationships within an organization.
