Leadership vs management personality traits

1. Characters

2. Agreeable
Openness to Experience
Emotional Stability
Extraversion
Conscientiousness
Personality Traits
Guru Manik Das Shyam
Saxena
HIGH HIGH HIGH
HIGH HIGH HIGH
HIGH HIGH HIGH
MEDIUM HIGH HIGH
HIGH HIGH HIGH

3. Motivation
High Need For
Achievement
High Need for Power
Low Need for Affiliation
• Starts working in local market at Turkey to make
money
• Refuses Sales Manager and return to India
• Take risk and trades in silk and attains huge profit
• Opens factory despite reluctance from Jignesh
• Argues with Manik Das Gupta on first meet
• Goes against the father Figure(Manik Das Gupta)
• Antagonize big trader at Mumbai(Mathura Das)
• Faces
• Seeks to make Shakti Industries as the biggest
company
• Aggressively expands his business in different
industries like cloth, polyester and silk industry

4. Other personality Traits
Mach : High
• Plans to marry friend’s sister to get the initial
investment in form of dowry to start a
business
• Offers bribe to the media to make su`re the
exposure of the bribe offered to him to
shutdown his business by accepting blank
cheque
• Convinces the minister to grant permission to
open a new petro; pump
• Relocate the office work to IAS officer home
who had passed the order to close the office
• Seeks Contractor assurance to get the
license to start a business by reaching his
home and make sure the golf ball gets into
the hole without following any game rule
Risk Taking
• Moves out from the village and starts his
career in Turkey and quits the job even
after getting promotion to commence the
business and moves to the new city
Mumbai after returning to India
• With reference to Sham communication ,its
clear he does not oblige to the organization
rules in order to get better productivity and
volume
• Open new companies and expand
business to new industryby promising to
provide the new products without prior
experience and knowledge in the
particular industry
• Inspite of his father’s business failure, he
started a business

5. Manik Dasgupta
• Manik is a newspaper owner with high principles and values
and an independent thinker
• He helps Guru by writing a disparaging article about the
contractor
• Manik eventually turns against Guru due to his dubious
business practices and extensive bribery
• Manik, through Shyam, exposes Guru’s unethical ways
• The fact that Manik still considers Guru to be his son is
revealed when he goes to visit him in the hospital
• The overarching theme of Manik’s character is that he
supports the truth no matter what

6. Manik sets Shyam
the difficult task of
exposing Guru’s
corrupt practices
Shyam has great
confidence that he will be
able to finish the task
Shyam is successful to a
great extent in revealing the
depth and magnitude of
Shakti Corp’s unscrupulous
ways
Manik’s belief in Shyam as well as that the fact he was specially
handpicked to pursue this lead would have increased Shyam's
confidence in himself