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No leader or authority can lay complacent about the co-operation of staff/subordinates. People
naturally resist any order that calls for any change from the established practices. Even the best of
strategically successful decisions have been greeted with resentments and lack of co-operations.
How a leader can keep his subordinates happy and motivated is a great concern of behavioural
scientists.
Situations are created in such a way that the group has no alternative except to throw its leader up.

The leader only emerges through problematic conditions. In aforesaid six Exampled situations
every situation is full of problem.
Interpretation of Situations—Situation No. 1 indicates misuse of student welfare fund. In
situation No. 2 cadets went on strike against the rude behaviour of a JCO-instructor. In situation
No. 3 villagers took a contingent for Naxalites who challenged them with firearms. In situation No.
4 the assistant related to the boss is criticising his incharge because of professional jealousy. In
situation No. 5 there is a demand of the high academic standards but headmaster found that the
teachers always whined about extra workload. And finally the situation No. 6 says that there is a
refusal for polio drops and blame for making the children weak.
Explanations and justification with reality to dispose-off the situations appropriately and
adequately—In social situations there is always a conflict between agreement and disagreement,
there is also a contradiction between conflict/confrontation and the settlement. In social situations
the answer is always an amicable settlement. I will exemplify it as here under—
Situation—He wants to marry Rita, but she is from a different religion, both the parents are
quarrelling and there is apprehension of riot, he would …… ? The first question strikes is, parties
involved.
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Bridegroom Rita Parents Society
Action required—(1) Bridegroom should be tactful.
(2) The marriage of Rita should not suffer.
(3) Parents should not quarrel.
(4) No riot, so society should not suffer.
“The answer is only amicable settlement”
Interpretation of leadership situation with the
context of appropriate disposal—Leadership
oriented situations are with full of problems. Here; in
these situations your problem solving skill is
required. In leadership oriented situations, you are to enter into the problem, confront it, bail out the
problem and draw the solution. In these situations your adjustment and judgement, your problem
solving skill, your emotional ability, your admission and confession, your patience is required. I
will exemplify as here under—
In social situations, you will find that there is difference of opinion, disagreement in which family
members, neighbours, parents, relatives, friends are involved and the consequences are that, it will cost the
loss of your personal/social relationship which may incurr the loss of your reputation, integrity, status,
faith, discipline, obedience and finally it will result to create an impression that you are not a reliable
person. A person of this kind cannot be a suitable match for the toe of a ‘Company Commander’.
See in all the leadership situations there is a problem and being a leader that will cost too much.
There is a direct stroke, challenge, boycott, refusal, problem of adjustment, conflict, strike, threat.
These all kind of situations are created with the view that either you withdraw, surrender,
compromise or attack. In any ways you have to emerge as a leader. Contrary to that, if you will not
emerge as a leader, someone else will take the credit and emerge. Therefore, leadership