The Impact of Demographics upon the Leadership Styles and the Quality Management Practices

Abstract

The enterprises needs a leader who is capable to get together the vision and mission, human resource and competitive strategy that creatively and innovatively is able to become a world class enterprise. Leadership is an important factor in initiating and implementing the transformation of quality management within enterprise. Leadership can be defined as process of affecting activities in a group organized to achieve the goal. Leadership changes a potential to a reality and it becomes the main activity giving success to enterprise. Leadership style is a process of affecting activities in a specific way and within an organized group towards the achievement of distinguished objective. Leadership concept developed within institution is transformational and transactional and these concepts have a base on style, behavior and situation of a leader. Leadership styles are reflected in practices and states of mind; however these thusly are the result of complex associations between the way the individual think and feel. In this regard, the role of personal attributes is also significant with respect to leadership styles and quality management practices.

Keywords: Demographics, Leadership Styles & Quality Management Practices