QUALITIES OF A GOOD LEADER
To be able to provide effective leadership to his subordinates, a leader needs to
have curtails qualities. According to Ordway, a leader must possess “Physical and
nervous energy, a sense of purpose and direction, enthusiasm, friendliness and
affection, integrity, technical mastery, decisiveness, intelligence, reaching skills
and faith”. According to Henry Fayol, the qualities that a leader must process are
as follows:
1. Physical and Mental Vigor:
The leader has to put in a hard mental and physical work which requires
tremendous stamina and vigor to sustain ling an irregular hours of work.
2. Emotional Stability:
The leader should not be unduly moved by emotion or sentiment. He should be
able rational and logically to analyse the various problems before him and reach a
decision without any fear or favour. He should not lose his temper of show in
decision even on the face of heavy odds.
3. Sense of Judgment:
The leader should be a master of human psychology. He should possess deep
understanding of human behaviour, emotions, sentiments, needs, motives etc.
This would enable him to anticipate the response to his decisions and actions.
4. Balance:
The leader should be rational and objective in his approach he should be free
from bias. Prejudice and pre-conceived nations. Only then he would be able to
decide issued on their merits.
5. Understanding or empathy:
The leader should show understanding for other viewpoints. If he tends to have
his own way in all matters he might lose their goodwill.
To be able to provide effective leadership to his subordinates, a leader needs to
have curtails qualities. According to Ordway, a leader must possess “Physical and
nervous energy, a sense of purpose and direction, enthusiasm, friendliness and
affection, integrity, technical mastery, decisiveness, intelligence, reaching skills
and faith”. According to Henry Fayol, the qualities that a leader must process are
as follows:
1. Physical and Mental Vigor:
The leader has to put in a hard mental and physical work which requires
tremendous stamina and vigor to sustain ling an irregular hours of work.
2. Emotional Stability:
The leader should not be unduly moved by emotion or sentiment. He should be
able rational and logically to analyse the various problems before him and reach a
decision without any fear or favour. He should not lose his temper of show in
decision even on the face of heavy odds.
3. Sense of Judgment:
The leader should be a master of human psychology. He should possess deep
understanding of human behaviour, emotions, sentiments, needs, motives etc.
This would enable him to anticipate the response to his decisions and actions.
4. Balance:
The leader should be rational and objective in his approach he should be free
from bias. Prejudice and pre-conceived nations. Only then he would be able to
decide issued on their merits.
5. Understanding or empathy:
The leader should show understanding for other viewpoints. If he tends to have
his own way in all matters he might lose their goodwill.
