Assessment of the Leadership Styles and Its Deployment in Indian Organisations

Abstract

Leadership is a key performance area at work and it drives the bottom line of every firm. Leadership style is a method that leaders practise to direct and motivate people to achieve set goals. This research work is trying to get a deep focus and analysis of leadership styles practised in India and to evaluate the deployment of these leaders in the different work areas in the same organisation context. The secondary data collected through direct observations of different work background leaders in India and their leadership styles, also primary data collected with 50 respondents as a sample through a survey instrument, based on a structured survey questionnaire to understand leadership effective deployment in the different work areas in the same organisation. The hypothesis was formulated and a one-way ANOVA F-test carried out to analyse the data specifically to assess the leadership styles and its deployment. Findings showed based on hypothesis test formulated that mainly three significant leadership styles exist in Indian organisations; also, different work background requires different leadership styles out of these three. Based on this research, I proposed a name to these three leadership styles model in the context of Indian organisations as ‘Brahma-Vishnu-Mahesh Theory of Leadership Styles’.