Positive Leadership Styles of Managers

Abstract

In the era of globalization and recession the managers were under tremendous pressure in India. The managers had to experiment with their approach towards leadership, which forced them to change leadership style. The recent study investigated the most and least preferred styles of managers in the large and medium scale organizations. The study was conducted on 102 middle level managers. The findings revealed that Missionary style (Mean 8.9) was the most preferred leadership style by managers and Deserter (Mean 4.8) & Autocrat leadership (Mean 4.9) styles were the least preferred styles by the managers. The study also found that most of the preferred leadership styles had components of positive psychology. Based on these findings of the present study, it is recommended that managers, executives, human resource managers and other leaders in the organizations to have more inclination to apply leadership styles consisting positive components.