Leadership Effectiveness of Scientists in Indian Council of Agricultural Research

Abstract

The paper describes the challenges faced by leaders in their attempt to prepare their organizations for an effective management. Ninety percent of the respondents have moderate readiness to take up the leadership role. Multinomial logistic regression analysis results indicated that there is no evidence to suggest that respondent’s designation, age, gender, educational qualification, discipline group, total experience, number of days of technical training and management training affect readiness to take up the leadership role. The paper suggests that the value of autonomy of institution and freedom in work of the individual in pursuing their profession tends to affect the individual’s readiness to take up the leadership role. This is because people in general do not want to be controlled by others and at the same time do not want to control others by accepting the leadership role readily.