A Study of Leadership Behavior Exhibited by Management Students

The emerging economy will confront greater challenges of risk, uncertainty, innovation and experimentation. Organizations will need leaders who can manage shared efforts with a broad spectrum of diverse people in order to addressproblems and find solutions. The study is an endeavor to gauge the management student perception of leadership, their opinion about task and relationship orientation of leadership. Since these management students are going to be future leaders it is imperative that their insights on leadership are studied and used as an input for developing business strategies. The research was conducted with the help of a self constructed questionnaire based on the variables of task leadership, relationship leadership, conceptual skills, administrative skills and relationship skills. The findings of the research highlighted on the importance of relationship orientation of management students and significant links between various skills and relationship based leadership.