Important Points for IC 90 - Human Resource Management (HRM) Exam
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Leadership skills relate to those skills that are relevant to managing people. Leadership is the ability to influence other people.
Leadership is concerned with obtaining willing co-operation of the followers, not under conditions of threat or fear which thugs and dacoits do.
The leader is concerned with: the Task, which has to be achieved, the Individuals, who have aspirations for growth and development, the Group which has to remain cohesive.
Douglas McGregor said that behaviour was not the consequence only of an individuals inherent nature, but was also a result of the manner in which he is managed at work.
Robert R Blake and Jane S Mouton developed the concept of the grid, based on two criteria, the leaders concern for people and his concern for the task.