An Research study on Leadership Triangle encompassing Personal Development, Professional Development and Skill Development

Abstract

Indeed, those were the day organisations believed that the principles style of management and getting work form the workers were by brawn and muscle. It has taken so many years for the management to come out with the fact that no workers were working whole-heartedly and no one contributed best results under fear and force.  It was then understood that basic desire of human being is freedom of action and satisfaction and they were the outcome of efforts from independent and non compulsory work.

Workers were then required being lead by a person but it is not so easy to determine some one as a leader.  They wanted him to be unique in all aspects. Hence it was necessary to understand the true nature of   leadership. When men follow a leader, they are doing so willingly.  Now what does cause the workers/men to follow him blindly?  It is no by fear or atrocity.   Now second question,    Is there any special and unique features   with him?  Is he having any uniqueness than others having? Like this so many questions….? A simple reason is that a leader stimulates, inspires and motivates the workers. A leader is force multiplying factor. In management there is no one as ordinary people. However he does extraordinary performance out of ordinary people.   This could be explained with the narration of  Dr. George Odiorne’s book by name Human Resource Portfolio.  He classified the employees into four categories.

They are 1) Dead woods 2) Work Horse 3) Problem Children 4) Stars. Dear woods are the employees with low potential and low performance. Next is work horse and these are the category of employees with low potential and high performance. The next is problem children. They are designated as persons with low performance and high potential. Finally Stars are the employees with high potential and high performance. According to Odiorne, the low potential workers are dead woods and problem children.  But they could be converted into the fourth category (STARS) by exploiting their talents in which the leadership role is enormous. 

Now a day the need for the leader in the organisation is enormous. Today’s organisations prefer the workers having the characters of a leader. He is wanted to be an innovator, having of creativity, good communicator, team builder, Problem solver, negotiator, and learner and having time management skills besides strong acumen in technical skills.  Today’s organisation has the basic duty of creating or transforming the workers / managers as potential leaders to withstand for quiet long period of time. For that it needs to offer programmes as Personal development Programme.