State any four features of leadership.

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 FEATURES OF LEADERSHIP

Leadership has the following common features:

1. Leaders and Followers: Leadership is the essence of the relationship between leaders and followers. Managers or supervisors who influence the subordinates are leaders whereas those who follow or obey the order, command, or direction of leaders are followers. There must be followers for an individual to be a leader. No one can be a leader without having followers.

2 Ability to influence: Leadership is the ability to influence the behavior and efforts of followers. Leaders by position cannot be effective if they cannot influence their subordinates. Here, influencing people means making them ready to obey the order, instructions, and directions without delay. Leaders influence the employee's behavior through power relations, motivation, role modeling, etc.

 3. Common objectives: Leaders and followers should have common objectives and goals i.e. the organizational goal. They must be guided by the organizational objectives. Leaders must be able to concentrate all the subordinates to devote their efforts to achieve those common goals. It is the special ability of leaders that they can inspire the employees to subordinate their goals to organizational goals.

4. Regular process: Leadership is a continuous and ongoing process that follows regular and extended communication between the leader and the followers. Leaders must be skilled, imaginative, and constructive. For this, they should study regularly in order to update their skills. Followers should provide constructive suggestions to their leaders. Leaders should be dynamic so that leader incorporates the environmental changes in leadership style and approaches.

 5. Unequal distribution of authority: There is an unequal authority distribution between leaders and their followers. A leader can direct the activities of followers but followers should obey the leader's direction. By principle, leaders hold the maximum authority of directing and commanding their subordinates. It is not possible for subordinates to direct and command their leaders.

 6. Situational activity: Leadership cannot be identical in all situations and in all organizations. A particular style of leadership may be successful in one situation but may not be suitable in another situation. So, leadership styles need to be changed according to context or situation. Successful leaders analyze the situation, organizational culture, and workforce dynamics and choose the appropriate leadership style.



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