1. ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
&
HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT
LEADERSHIP
Presented By:
Amit Kumar
Anas.O.M
Krishnam Raju
Ridhi Vatsraj
Veerashekar.R

2. TOPICS
• Leader
• Leadership
• Good Leaders
• Bad Leaders
• How can leadership help an organization

3. WHO IS A LEADER?

4. “ The real leader has no need to lead he is the
content to point the way”- Henry Miller.
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a
follower” – Steve Jobs.

5. What is Leadership?

6. “Leadership is the desire and ability to inspire
individual achievements” – Keith Miller.

7. Types of Leadership
• Transformational
• Transactional
• Charismatic

8. WHO IS A GOOD LEADER?

9. 1. Sabeer Bhatia
• One of the co-founders of Hotmail.
• Sold Hotmail to Microsoft for $400 million.
• He rejected a $160 million offer by
Microsoft earlier.
• Hotmail is the world's largest e-mail
provider, with over 50 million users.
• With Hotmail he changed the way of emailing.
• In 1999 he found ARZOO.COM, in 2005 he converted ARZOO
into a travel portal and is now the third largest travel portal in the
country

10. Contd..,
• In 2008 he started SABSEBOLO.COM
• His future venture includes….
 Live office
Nano city

11. 2. Vivek Paul
• Indian born businessman and founder of
Akansa capital.
• 1990-1999 he worked in GE recruited by
Jack Welch himself
• From 1999-2005 he was the Vice Chairman
of Wipro and CEO of its global information
technology, product engineering and business process services
segment.
• He grew this business from under $150 million in revenue to $1.4
billion and led its listing on New York stock exchange

12. Contd..,
• Left Wipro in 2005 and was as a partner at TPG capital one of
world’s leading private equity investment firms.
• Throughout his career he was very well connected with people,
his subordinates and other employees in wipro.
• He believed that productivity depends upon every employee.
• His easy go nature was always welcomes by his employees.

13. 3. Ashok Soota
• Cofounder and executive chairman of the
Indian IT consulting company Mind Tree
• Was the CEO Wipro InfoTech from 1984 –
1999.
• He became the CEO of Wipro InfoTech when he was just 34 and he went on
to lead Wipro InfoTech from a Rs 7 crore company in 1984 to a Rs1000 crore
giant in 1999.
• He left Wipro in 1999 and found Mind Tree.
• “We can leave our own impact just by leading good lives”- Ashok Soota

14. Contd..,
• With the dot com burst in 2000 it was like the end of the road for Mind
Tree, but he steered through the difficult situation as a responsible captain
to make the story of the company of success which could have been
otherwise.
• On 5th April 2011 he announced the launch of Happiest Minds that offers
a suite of IT services. Launched Happiest Minds on 29th August 2011.
• Within 2 months of its launch it raised $45 million as investment.

15. 4. Mohandas Pai
• An Indian chartered accountant.
• Joined Infosys in 1994.
• CFO of Infosys from 1994-2006
• He played a strategic role in transforming Infosys into one of the
world’s most respected and widely known software services company.
• He formulated country’s first publicly articulated financial policy for
the company.
• In 2006 leaving the CFO’s office he joined Human Resources and
Education and Research.

16. Contd..,
• He left Infosys in June 2011.
• Mohandas Pai is one of those leaders in Infosys who took Infosys
from a $10 million 500 people company to a $10 billion 1,30,000
people globally with $40 billion of value.
• As an HR head he wanted his employees to take independent decisions
and he believed in learning and training programs.
• The credit for the highly talented youngsters working in Infosys goes
to Mohandas Pai .
“ The most important test for an MBA is the value that he adds to
the organization and not the salary he earns.”- Mohandas Pai

17. WHO IS A BAD LEADER?

18. 1. Arvind Jhadav
• Former CMD of Air India.
• 1978 batch IAS officer with nil experience
in aviation sector before took charge as CMD of Air India in 2009 May.
• On May 4 2009, his first day in office he perplexingly cancelled the
appointment of cabin crew. Long leaves were sanctioned for already short
staffed cabin crew.
• He ignored the fact that the cabin crew were being selected to ensure minimal
delays in the on-time operation of the new aircrafts that were being added to
the AI fleet.
• Due to the delay in hiring the cabin crew hundreds of flights were either
cancelled or delayed.

19. Contd..,
• This decision of his only costed Air India Rs 20 billion.
• AI bought 3 Boeing 777-300ER at a price of $852.30 million which
wasn’t used for three months as AI did not take the delivery.
• Upon this AI engaged many consultants like Accenture, McKinsey,
Booz Allen which costed them huge money.
• “There was a complete disconnect and trust deficit between CMD and
the employees”- Capt. Mohan Ranganathan (member safety advisory
committee of the Ministry of Civil Aviation.
• During his tenure only AI reported a loss of 11052 crores
• In August 2011 he was literally thrown out of AI..

20. 2. Rick Wagoner
• Joined GM as an analyst in1981.
• In 2000 he became the President
and CEO of GM and he was
elected as Chairman of GM on May 1, 2003.
• He focused on profits for the company rather than providing better and
good quality products to customers.
• He closed down many of GM’s facilities to cut cost which affected the
productivity of the company.
• He focused on expensive sporty cars and never concentrated on hybrid
cars thinking that it was too niche.

21. Contd..,
• All the time he was closing down facilities to cut down cost he was
wasting money in other facilities of GM.
• Under his leadership GM suffered $ 85 billion in losses.
• In June 2009 the company became bankrupt , government fired Rick
Wagoner and US government took over the company.

22. 3. Vikram Pandit
• Vikram Pandit is the CEO of Citigroup
since December 11, 2007.
• He is called a slow decision maker.
• He often avoids acting on a problem until he felt that every possible risk
is involved.
• “analysis paralysis’- this is what Citi employees call Pandit’s belated
decision making.
• He is extremely cautious in his leadership role, always looking to make
money with a minimum of risk.

23. Contd..,
• Even when Citi group was making losses he was claiming a huge
salary.
• Vikram Pandit has been named one of the worst CEOs in America.

24. Now How will you decide whether a leader is good or bad?

25. SETTING UP A NEW COMPANY
• Every company stats with the intent that one day it will become a
large company.
• One thing that we have to keep in mind while starting a company
is that a startup company is not a small version of a large
company
• A startup company requires different management principles and a
leadership which is more participative.
• Every company that has grown from a small scratch to
multibillion dollar giants shows that their management principles
were different at startup

26. LEADERSHIP STYLE REQUIRED FOR A STARTUP COMPANY
• Startup stage for any business is filled with passion and excitement.
• Startup leadership requires passion for vision.
• The founder/leader should have direct hands on the day to day
operations of the company.
• He should lead by examples
• Do not be a slave to management theorists.
• The leader should be good in networking, experimenting and
facilitating

27. Contd..,
• Leaders should be flexible.
• The leader should take active participation in functions like forecasting,
planning, organizing, commanding, coordinating and controlling.
• Employees are the strength and weakness of any company.
• Employees should be properly trained and educated. They should add
value to the organization.
• A Democratic style of leadership will be appropriate for a startup
company especially when it is a new kind of business.

28. HOW CAN LEADERSHIP HELP A COMPANY
TO MEET INDUSTRIAL STANDARDS?
• Stringent quality control measures should cover every aspects of
business – the leader should make this sure.
• Real world examples has shown how quality of a product can
affect the reputation of a company
• This is dependent on the vision of the leader.
• The success of any company depends on how well it serves the
needs of its customers.

29. THANK YOU