1. “TATA WITHOUT
RATAN”

2. Success Story
• 1962: Graduated from Cornell University
with a Bachelor of Science degree
in Architecture and Structural
Engineering.
Worked with Jones and Emmons in Los Angeles
Joined Tata Steel at Jamshedpur in late 1962

3. Success Story – (cntd)
 1971: Appointed the Director-in-Charge of The National
Radio & Electronics Company Limited (Nelco)
 1977: Was entrusted with Empress Mills, textile mill
controlled by the Tata’s
 1981: Appointed as The Chairman of Tata Industries
 1991: Took over as group chairman
from J.R.D. Tata.

4. Success Story – (cntd)
• 1998: Tata Motors came up with Tata Indica, the first truly
Indian car.
 2000: Tata Tea acquired the Tetley group of the UK for
pounds 271 million ($435 million) - the biggest
acquisition in the history of Indian Companies.

5. Success Story – (cntd)
2003: Stepped down from executive position.
Bought the truck unit of South Korea's Daewoo Motors
A stake in one of Indonesia's biggest coal mines, and
steel mills in Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam

6. Success Story – (cntd)
 2004: Takeover of Tony hotels including New York's Pierre,
the Ritz-Carlton in Boston, and San Francisco's Camden
Place.
Purchase of Tyco International's undersea
telecom cables.
 2007: Tata Sons successfully acquired Corus Group
for an estimated £6.7 billion.
“A defining moment for Tata Steel” – Tata said

7. LEADERSHIP
Leadership has been defined as:“The process of social influence in which one person
can enlist the aid and support of others in the
accomplishment of a common task.”

8. LEADERSHIP STYLES
• Strategic leadership
• Authoritative leadership
• Delegative leadership
• Participative leadership

9. Leadership
(The Tata without Ratan)
Strategic leadership provides the vision and direction for growth and success of an organization. It
also helps to successfully deal with change. The facts that portray that Ratan Tata is definitely a
strategic leader are:
•
The Tata group’s revenue is 40 times the 1991 level.
•
The net profit has gone up 4 times.
•
22 companies were acquired worldwide.
•
Conceptualized Nano.
•
He overcame the biggest challenge- of not only living up to the stature of JRD Tata but also of
outdoing him.

10. Ratan Tata displays authoritative leadership only in the sense that he dictates policies and
procedures and sets out the goals that are to be achieved. He never crosses the thin line of becoming
autocratic.
Delegative leadership is again portrayed in the sense that subordinates are encouraged to express
their ideas and it is listened to properly but the last decision is taken by Ratan Tata himself. Also he’s
not a leader who is hands off.
Participative leadership is a style of leadership that involves all members of a team in identifying
essential goals and developing procedures or strategies to reach those goals.
Ratan Tata displays participative leadership as he encourages others to put forward their opinions. As
JJ Irani said in an interview Tata convincingly presents his views but at the same time listens
attentively to other points of views and arrives at a concensus in a firm way.

11. IMPACT OF RATAN TATA”S LEADERSHIP ON
ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE
 At 3.45 lakh crore, Tata Group revenue has increased to 40 times
the 1991 level.
 Net profit has gone up to four times.
 It has become the largest Indian multinational conglomerate.
 More than 65% of the group’s income comes from overseas and it
has 98 operating companies spread across 56 countries in 6
continents.
 Acquired 22 companies worldwide including Tetley Tea and Corus
Steel in the UK, New York’s Pierre Hotel and Jaguar Land Rover.

12.  Includes India’s largest private steel company .(Tata steels)
 The biggest auto manufacture company (Tata Motors)
 Largest IT outsourcing firm (TCS)
 Entered in Telecom Industry (Tata Indicom)
 Entered in Entertainment industry. (Tata Sky)

13. The man and his dream machine
 Nano—which means small in Parsi-
Gujarati—turns out to be a font of
innovation, generating as many as 40 new
patents for Tata Motors

15. Awards and Recognition
• He was honoured with the Padma Bhushan –
26 January 2000
• He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan - 26 January
2008
• Recipients of the NASSCOM Global Leadership Awards2008
• Accepted the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy in 2007
on behalf of the Tata family
• Honoured by Cornell University as the 26th Robert S.
Hatfield Fellow in Economic Education – March 2006
• Serves on the programme board of the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation's India AIDS initiative

16. Awards and Recognition
– (cntd)
• May 2008, he made it to the Time magazine's 2008 list of the World's
100 most Influential people.
• The Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok conferred the Honorary
• Degree of Doctor of Technology (Honoris Causa) in 2004
• His foreign affiliations include membership of the international
• advisory boards of
* The Mitsubishi Corporation
* The American International Group
* JP Morgan Chase
* Booz Allen Hamilton
.