Impact of Leadership Quality On Apparel Productivity:
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Fig: Leadership qualities in apparel industry |
Essential Characteristics of a Good Leader:
- Drive: Achievement, ambition, energy, tenacity, initiative.
- Honesty & integrity,
- Self-confidence (Including emotional stability),
- Cognitive ability,
- Knowledge of the business,
- Other traits like charisma, creativity, originally, flexibility etc.
SL No.
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Trait
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Skill
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01
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Adaptable to situations
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Clever (Intelligent)
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02
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Alert to social environment
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Conceptually skilled
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03
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Ambitious & achievement
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Creative
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04
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Assertive
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Diplomatic & tactful
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05
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Cooperative
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Fluent in speaking
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06
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Decisive
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Knowledgeable about group task
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07
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Dependable
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Organized
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08
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Dominant
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Persuasive
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09
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Energetic (High activity level)
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Socially skilled
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10
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Persistent
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11
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Self-confident
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12
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Tolerant of stress
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13
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Willing to assume responsibility
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1. Management of Attention:
This is a capability of leaders to infuse a sense of outcome, goal, direction that influence followers.
2. Management of Meaning:
This is an ability to communicate meaning with clarity & understanding to the followers and subordinates.
3. Management of Trust:
The ability to be trustworthy & reliable.
4. Management of Self:
The ability to know one’s strength & weakness & to use one’s skill within that limit.
What are the Qualities of a Bad Leader?
- Insensitive to others: Abrasive, intimidating, bullying style etc.
- Cold, aloof, arrogant.
- Unreliable, untrustworthy.
- Overly ambitious: Always thinking of self-advancement, playing policies.
- Having specific performance problems with the business.
- Unable to deligate power to others or build a team overmanning.
- Unable to staff effectively.
- Unable to think strategically.
- Unable to adapt to boss with different style.
- Over dependent on advocate or mentor etc.
Leadership Styles and Their Impact on Employee Productivity:
The following diagram shows how this leads to better organizational performance:
- Leader defines what followers must do to attain organizational goals →→ Leader clarifies followers work role →→ Follower gains increased knowledge & confidence to accomplish the outcomes →→ Follower increases efforts & motivation→→ Organizational goal is attained.
- Leader learns follower’s needs →→ Leader matches the needs to rewards if goal is attained →→ leader increases value of work outcomes →→ Follower increases efforts & motivation→→ Organizational goal is attained.
Researchers of Ohio & Michigan Universities grouped leadership behavior into task-oriented & employee oriented. Task oriented behavior emphasizes activities towards achievement of organizational goals while employee oriented behavior highlights better relationship with the subordinates, respecting their ideas & feelings and establishing mutual trust. The first group represents authoritarian styles while the latter represents democratic style of leadership.
A right leadership quality is to strike a balance so that employee relationship becomes a helping hand in achieving organizational goals.