A Study on Leadership Styles in Public-Sector Enterprises (A Case Study of Bharath Earth Movers Limited)

A B S T R A C T This paper attempts to study the differences in the leadership styles as perceived by the leaders and sub-ordinates in a public-sector enterprise. The study has revealed that differences do exist in different leadership styles - authoritarian, participative, bureaucratic, task-oriented and nurturant, as perceived by the leader himself and perceived by the subordinates in Bharath Earth Movers Limited (BEML). In this paper, the authors made an attempt to identify the differences in leadership styles as perceived by the leaders and subordinates in BEML. The study is based on the primary data collected from seven hierarchical levels of officers of the BEML. By adopting simple random sampling technique from each level of officers, 50% were drawn as the sample for the study. For this, three questionnaires were used to collect the data.

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