In simple statement, leadership is a process of influencing the behaviour of people in a given situation in order to bring desirable changes to achieve a common goal. In other words, leadership is a process of inspiring the people with a positive approach to accomplish a common goal.
Leadership also means the direct face-to-face contact, between leaders and followers. It is a personal social contact.
According to George R. Terry, “Leadership is the activity of influencing people to strive willingly for group objectives”.
Koontz and O’ Donnell has defined leadership as “Influencing people to follow the achievement of a common goal. It is the ability to exert interpersonal influence by means of communication towards the achievement of a goal”.
Encyclopedia of Social Sciences defines leadership as “Leadership is the relation between an individual and a group around some common interest and behaving in a manner directed or determined by him”.
Hepple defines leadership as the role and status of one or more individuals in the structure and functioning of group organizations which enable these groups to meet a need or purpose that can be achieved only through the co-operation of the members of the group.
Rogers and Olmsted define leadership as “an activity in which effort is made to influence people to co-operate in achieving a goal viewed by the group as desirable”.
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