LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOUR OF B.Ed. TRAINEES

Leadership is an important aspect of managing people. It is the art of dealing with and influencing people so that they will try hard happily and actively toward the achievement of group or organizational goals. The leaders understand what makes their followers to get motivated and how well these motivations operate. This understanding will reflect in their leadership behaviour. Preparing young people for leadership responsibility begins at home with an enriched environment that offers opportunities for children to acquire broad interests, selfesteem and the insights and skills that characterize leaders. Parents can provide their children with support and encouragement as they participate in a wide variety of home and community activities. The aim of the present study is to find out the level of leadership behaviour of B.Ed. trainees. The investigator has used the leadership behavior inventory as tool. The sample consists of 300 B.Ed. trainees from six B.Ed. Colleges in Kanyakumari District. Stratified random sampling technique has been used for collecting the data. The major finding reveals that there is significant difference between rural and urban B.Ed trainees in their leadership behaviour.