d. Organisational characteristics:
The leader should consider the
various aspects within the
organisation,
such as rules and polciies,
professionalism,
objectives,
task structure,
managerial
philosophy, work freedom, pernissiveness etc.
FIG: 17.7 Situation Aproach to Leadership
17.8 LEADERSHIP STYLES IN INDIAN ORGANISATIONS
Since managerial styles are determined by a number of factors such as superiors, subordinates, and
situations. It is unrealistic to expect a uniform leadership style. From this point of view, the Indian
organisations can be classified into the following three categories.
(a) Family - managed traditional organisations.
(b) Professionally - managed Indian organisations and foreign-owned organisations.
(c) Public sector organisations.
As all these organisations are of different in nature, they have some distinct leadership styles.
(a) Family-managed Traditional Organisations
In these organisations the most prevalent style is autocratic. Sons and grandsons of the enterpreneurs
are automatically promoted without any consideration to efficiency or overall suitability. Thus there is
management by inheritance or management by chromosomes.As a reuslt,
these organisations
becomes highly centralised in their structure and remain authoritarian in their approach.
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