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Leadership Styles and Influence Tactics

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  • Gupta, Parvinder
  • Sinha, J. B. P.

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Two hundred nine MBA (Masters in Business Administration) students of a management institute rated their leadership styles and influence tactics as a part of their classroom exercise. The findings indicated that they preferred to adopt nurturant-task (NT) and participative styles more frequently than transformational style. Authoritarian style of leadership was least likely to be adopted by them. The first three styles were positively correlated suggesting the possibility of leaders moving back and forth between the styles. Rational persuasion and empowerment were most likely to be used as influence tactics, followed by personal appeal and consultation, reward for performance, use of authority, and so on. Although leadership styles were meaningfully related to influence tactics, there were enough overlaps to suggest that leaders flexibly use styles and influence tactics.

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  • Gupta, Parvinder & Sinha, J. B. P., 2000. "Leadership Styles and Influence Tactics," IIMA Working Papers WP2000-06-05, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Research and Publication Department.
    • Handle: RePEc:iim:iimawp:wp01686
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