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Unit 13: Motivation and Leadership

14. Assuming that nobody can be equally competent on all grounds, what should a leader try Notes
to excel in among human skills, conceptual skills, technical skills and personal skills and
why?
15. Is following the rule of minimum exposure to accountability the right kind of attitude? If
yes, in which situations it would result in negative?

Answers: Self Assessment

1. initiates, directs 2. philosophies, techniques

3. motivating 4. confidence
5. Directive 6. Unequal
7. task-centered 8. resolve

9. personal characteristics 10. reasons
11. judgment, social activities
12. Initiating-structure behaviour, consideration behaviour

13.15 Further Readings

Books Anne Bruce and James S. Pepitone, Motivating Employees, McGraw-Hill.
Barry Silverstein, Motivating Employees: Bringing Out the Best in Your People, Collins
Business.
P.G. Aquinas, Organisational Behaviour, Excel Books.
The Psychology of Leadership, David M Messick, Roderick Moreland Kramer,
Routledge
Transformational Leadership in Government, Jerry W Koehler, Joseph M Pankowski,
CRC Press

Online links www.accel-team.com
www.motivation-tools.com

www.pickthebrain.com

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