Leadership in HRM is important for several reasons. Effective leadership provides direction to employees to accomplish organizational goals, transforms potential into reality, and provides vision and sense of direction. Key qualities of good leadership include communication, integrity, accountability, empathy, resilience, being visionary, delegation, and innovation. Leadership styles like autocratic, laissez-faire and democratic each have benefits in certain situations. Effective leadership makes use of employee skills, defines goals to keep teams focused, and sets deadlines to keep projects on track.

1. Leadership In HRM
Prepared by: Neelam Suwal
BPH 8th batch

2. Content:
• Introduction
• Qualities of leadership
• Importance of leadership in HRM

3. Introduction:
• the action of leading a group of people or the organization
• Leadership is a process by which an executive can direct, guide and
influence the behavior and work of others towards
accomplishment of specific goals in a given situation.
• Leadership is the ability of a manager to induce the subordinates to
work with confidence and zeal.
• Leadership is the potential to influence behavior of others. It is also
defined as the capacity to influence a group towards the realization
of a goal. Leaders are required to develop future visions, and to
motivate the organizational members to want to achieve the visions.

4. Contd.
• According to Keith Davis, “Leadership is the ability to persuade others
to seek defined objectives enthusiastically. It is the human factor
which binds a group together and motivates it towards goals.”
• ‘’Management is about persuading people to do things they do not
want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do they
never thought they could.’’

5. Qualities of Leadership:
1. Communication:
 being able to express yourself openly and build empathy with people
is the foundation of effective leadership.
 Most important part of communication: listening
 Good leaders listen and pay attention to all of their followers,
employees, and every single person they are leading.
( They’ll become inspired, feel heard, and begin to know, like, and
trust you.)

6. 2. Integrity:
 great leaders succeed when they stick to their word, live by their core
values, lead by example, and follow-through.
 Apologizing for mistakes
 Highlighting the work of their employees and downplaying their own
contributions
 Giving the benefit of the doubt when circumstances are unclear
 Being appreciative of people’s time

7. 3. Accountability:
 “A good leader takes little more than his share of the blame and little
less than his share of the credit.”
 Strong and good leaders are accountable for the team’s results, good or
bad.
 They hold themselves and their employees accountable for their
actions, which creates a sense of responsibility among the team.

8. 4. Empathy:
 Truly great leaders have enough open-mindedness to understand their
followers’ motivations, hopes, dreams, and problems so that they can build
a deep personal connection with them.
 This enables leaders to:
- Improve work strategies
- Inspire loyalty among their teams

9. 5. Resilience:
 Resilience leaders are capable of retaining their energy level under
strain and responding to disruptive changes.
 Resilient leaders are capable of retaining their energy level under
strain and responding to disruptive changes.

10. 6. Visionary:
 A leader should be Visionary and have more foresight than an
employee.
 A visionary leader is far-sighted and driven and inspired by what a
company can become.
 Visionary leaders work hard for the greater good and keep themselves
updated with time and change.

11. 7. Delegation:
 Delegation is crucial for maximizing productivity and team
performance.
 knowing when and how to delegate gives them more time for their most
important work.

12. 8. Innovative:
 Innovative leaders are always open to new ideas and discussions.
 They listen to everyone actively and also motivate others to think out
of the box.

13. Importance of leadership in HRM:
1. At certain times, when the employees are not well trained
autocratic leadership allows a leaders to have control over the
employee and get the work done.
2. Laissez faire leadership practice, allow the employees to make a
decision without restrictions, solving any problems. Such practices
builds confidence, job satisfaction, organizational commitment and
performance among the employee.

14. 3. In democratic leadership practice, the leader allows the
participation of their subordinates efforts while planning, designing,
execution , decision making. This enables the staff to effectively deal
with any problems during the execution allowing for their professional
growth and encouragement in career growth.
4. Effective leadership gives direction to the efforts of all workers in
accomplishing the goals of the organization. It is the human factor that
binds a group together and motivates it towards goal achievement.

15. 5. Leadership transform potential into reality.
6. It provides an overarching/ comprehensive sense of direction and
vision, an alignment with environment, a healthy mechanism for
innovation and creativity and a resource for strengthening organizational
culture.
7. Effective leadership make use of the skill and capabilities of team
members and is able to assign them tasks that take advantage of their
strengths.

16. 8. Effective leadership provides focus to the team by clearly defining
goals and explaining objectives so that every member on the team
understands the end goal they are working to achieve.
9. Good leadership keep the team on track and moving forward by
setting and enforcing deadlines. One way that an effective leader does
this is by checking on each team member’s progress and helping them
resolve any issues before they become big problems.

17. Leadership is situation bound. There is no best style of leadership.
It all depends upon tackling with the situations.

18. • Thank you.