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Managing Human Element at Work

Notes • He follows the rule of minimum exposure to accountability.
• He relieves himself of responsibilities and is ready to blame his subordinates if something
goes wrong.
• He has no clear idea of the goals to be attained.
• He is more security-conscious than status-conscious.
This mode of direction can produce good and quick results if the subordinates are
highly educated and brilliant people who have a will to go ahead and perform their
responsibility.
13.6.4 Paternalistic Leadership
Under this type of leadership, the leader assumes that his function is fatherly. His attitude is
that of treating the relationship between the leader and his groups that of family with the
leader as the head of the family. The leader works to help to work, guide, protect and keep
his followers happily working together as members of a family. He provides them with good
working condition, fringe benefits and employee services. It is said that employees under such
leadership will work harder out of gratitude.
Self Assessment

Multiple choice questions:
1. Motivation and performance are assumed to be one and the ............. .
(a) same (b) different
(c) both (a) and (b) (d) None of these.
2. .............................. initiates all the measures that are necessary for the purpose of ensuring
the health and progress.
(a) Employee (b) Leader
(c) Member (d) None of these.

3. Leadership according to .............................. is the ability to secure desirable actions from
a group of followers voluntarily, without the use of coercion.
(a) Alford and Beatty (b) Chester I Barnard
(c) Terry (d) Koontz and O’Donnell
4. In the words of .............................., Leadership is the ability to awaken in others the desire
to follow a common objective.
(a) Alford and Beatty (b) Chester I Barnard
(c) R.T. Livingston (d) Koontz and O’Donnell
5. According to .............................., “Leadership is the relation between an individual and a
group around some common interest and behaving in a manner directed or determined
by him.”
(a) Alford and Beatty (b) Chester I Barnard
(c) R.T. Livingston (d) Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences

13.7 Leadership Committee

A committee is a small group of people formed from a larger group of employees assigned
with a particular task. A committee member may be appointed or the employee concerned
may also volunteer to become a member. The ideal size of a committee for most of the tasks
is 3 to 5 persons. The first person named in a committee is usually considered as the chairman
of the committee.

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