Analysis on Leadership Characteristics of Managers of Information Technology and Non- Information Technology Organizations with Special Reference to Karnataka

Leadership characteristics of managers play a predominant role in every organization in its success or failure. Hence researcher on leadership become more relevant and the industrialists and scholars give more emphasis to this topic in their realm of activities in contemporary times. The major purpose of this study is to assess and compare leadership characteristics of managers of IT and Non-IT organizations. The researcher has analyzed and assessed transformational, transactional, and passive/avoidant leadership styles of managers who participated in the study and tested the normality of leadership scores. Leadership characteristics of managers of IT and Non-IT organizations are also compared in this chapter. Apart from that leadership characteristics of managers are assessed and compared on the basis of their gender, the number of training programmes they attended and the nature of the job they do in the IT organization.