The document discusses leadership, its importance, qualities, and styles. It defines leadership as influencing others to achieve goals and work enthusiastically. Some key importance of leadership include motivating employees, developing teamwork, better utilizing human resources, and maintaining discipline. Important leadership qualities include patience, confidence, honesty, long-term vision, dedication, and motivation. The main leadership styles discussed are autocratic, where the leader makes all decisions; democratic, where subordinates provide input; and laissez-faire, where subordinates have freedom in decision making.

1. LEADERSHIP AND TYPES
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2. LEADERSHIP:
 Leadership is defined as the process of influencing a group to
achieve goals.
 Leadership is defined as the process of influencing and
supporting others to work enthusiastically towards achieving
objectives.
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3. IMPORTANCE OF LEADERSHIP:
1. Motivating employees:
 Higher the motivation, higher would be the performance.
 A good leadership itself will motivate an employee to perform
better.
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4. IMPORTANCE OF LEADERSHIP:
2. To develop team work:
 Three vital determinants of team work are leader, subordinates
and work environment.
 Leadership will make the environment to work efficiently.
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5. IMPORTANCE OF LEADERSHIP:
3. Better utilization of human resource:
 With proper planning of policies and programs, leadership
utilizes the man power properly.
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6. IMPORTANCE OF LEADERSHIP:
4. Creating confidence to followers:
 A good leader create confidence, by giving proper guidance and
advise.
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7. IMPORTANCE OF LEADERSHIP:
5. Directing:
 Being an example, a leader can motivate the entire team
towards goal.
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8. IMPORTANCE OF LEADERSHIP:
6. Building morale:
 Attitudes of employees towards organization, management and
cooperation will improve by good leadership.
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9. IMPORTANCE OF LEADERSHIP:
7. Maintaining discipline:
 A good leadership can ensure proper decorum in an organization
leading towards goal attainment.
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10. LEADERSHIP QUALITIES:
1. Patience
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11. LEADERSHIP QUALITIES:
2. Confidence
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12. LEADERSHIP QUALITIES:
3. Honesty
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13. LEADERSHIP QUALITIES:
4. Long term vision
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14. LEADERSHIP QUALITIES:
5. Dedication
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15. LEADERSHIP QUALITIES:
6. Motivation
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16. LEADERSHIP QUALITIES:
7. Multiplicity in roles
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17. LEADERSHIP QUALITIES:
8. Uniqueness
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18. LEADERSHIP STYLES:
1. Autocratic leadership:
 Leader takes all decisions by himself without consulting
subordinates.
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19. LEADERSHIP STYLES:
1. Autocratic leadership:
1a) Strict autocrat (leader follows negative motivation)
1b) Benevolent autocrat (leader follows positive motivation)
1c) Incompetent autocrat (to hide his / her ability)
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20. LEADERSHIP STYLES:
2. Democratic leadership:
 Subordinates are consulted and their feedback is taken into
account during decision making.
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21. LEADERSHIP STYLES:
3. Laissez – Faire leadership:
 Subordinates are given freedom in decision making.
 They will hold responsibility for all their actions.
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