CHAPTER 13

Leadership

CHAPTER OBJECTIVES

After reading this chapter, you should be able to:

  1. Understand the meaning of leadership
  2. Define the characteristics of leadership
  3. Distinguish between leadership and management
  4. List the steps in the process of leadership
  5. Enumerate the various theories of leadership
  6. Describe the recent trends in leadership approaches
  7. Understand the leadership succession planning

India’s Inspirational Managers

Shiv Nadar is the founder and chairman of HCL, a leading global technology and IT enterprise with annual revenues of USD 6.3 billion. The HCL enterprise comprises two companies listed in India, HCL Technologies and HCL Infosystems. The HCL team comprises 92,000 professionals of diverse nationalities operating ...

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