Gandhi and the Psychology of Nonviolence, Volume 2 by V. K. Kool & Rita Agrawal

Author:V. K. Kool & Rita Agrawal
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030569891
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Leadership

Leadership has probably been written about, researched and discussed more than any other single topic in organizational psychology. Yet, corporate houses have not always seen the best of leaders. In fact, in 1990, Abraham Zaleznik lamenting about the state of affairs of business in the USA was of the view that

Business in America has lost its way, a drift in a sea of managerial mediocrity, desperately needing leadership, to face worldwide economic competition. (Zaleznik 1990, p. 9)

This was despite the fact that the twentieth century saw a slew of research in the area of leadership. Starting with the earliest study on leadership conducted by Kurt Lewin and his students in the 1930s we have had many theories positing different types of leadership, based on a wide variety of factors such as personality and personal traits, situational and contingent factors and types of followers. The latter part of the twentieth century saw the emergence of new trends in our understanding of leadership through concepts such as charismatic leadership, transactive versus transformational leadership and substitutes for leadership.

From this very diverse field, we will make an attempt to draw on those theoretical frameworks that will help us in our analysis of Gandhian leadership. At the same time, we will endeavor to decipher how Gandhi’s leadership style may offer fresh insights for leadership in the management of twenty-first-century organizations.

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