Three of the following are given as the importance of leadership to an organisation. Which one is the odd one out?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Acting as a link that conveys the workers’ problems to the management
Option (1) Introducing required changes with minimum discontentment — Importance of leadership. A leader persuades, clarifies and inspires people to accept change. So he introduces needed changes with minimum discontentment.
Option (2) Handling conflicts while letting followers ventilate their feelings and disagreement — Importance of leadership. A good leader lets followers ventilate their feelings and disagreement, and then persuades them with clarifications. So conflicts do no harm.
Option (3) Building up a successor and helping in a smooth succession process — Importance of leadership. A leader trains his subordinates and builds up his successor, so the succession is smooth.
Option (4) Acting as a link that conveys the workers’ problems to the management — Not an importance of leadership. Carrying workers’ problems to the management is the supervisor’s role as a link between workers and management. He also carries management ideas to the workers. This helps avoid misunderstandings and conflicts between the two.
NCERT (2026-27 Edition): “Importance of Leadership: … The importance of leadership can be discussed from the following benefits to the organisation: “Importance of Supervision … (ii) Supervisor acts as a link between workers and management. He conveys management ideas to the workers on one hand and workers problems to the management on the other. This role played by supervisor helps to avoid misunderstandings and conflicts between management and workers/employees.” |