Leadership: Characteristics, Motives, and Traits of Mahatma Gandhi

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Contents
Introduction............................................................................................................... 2
About Leader (Mahatma Gandhi).................................................................................... 2
Approaches............................................................................................................... 3
Characteristics of Mahatma Gandhi..................................................................................4
Confidence................................................................................................................ 4
Traits....................................................................................................................... 4
Motives.................................................................................................................... 5
Effectiveness............................................................................................................. 5
Conclusion................................................................................................................ 6
References................................................................................................................ 6

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Introduction
Leadership is the action of leading a group of people or an organisation. The leader provides
the direction to its team members in order to reach the destination. The leader performs a
different responsibility and regularly supervising the team for effective work. According to
the author Antonakis, and Day 2017, Leader adopts the different techniques to influence the
behaviour of people towards the goals. Leaders are essential to develop future visions,
mission and to motivate the organisational members to achieve the objective. There are
different styles of leadership which are based on the behaviour of a leader to tackle the
situation. There are many examples of famous leaders in the world who are compared with
the god just because of their efforts, and hard work. In the era, Bhagat Singh, Iron man
(Sardarwala Bhai Patel), Mahatma Gandhi are the example of top leaders by whom we enjoy
freedom. In this report, the discussion is made on the topic of “Leadership”.
In this paper, Mahatma Gandhi is selected from the top leaders with the motive to explain the
characteristics, motives and traits of a leader. At the beginning of the paper, the personality
and his struggle towards the society will be discussed. The discussion is classified in these
terms such as characteristics, traits, motives, effectiveness and approaches with the purpose
of analysing his responsibilities as a leader.
About Leader (Mahatma Gandhi)
Mahatma Gandhi was the leader of the Indian Independence movement which is against
British Colonial Rule. Gandhi took the step towards independence and inspired the people for
their civil rights and freedom across the world. He is also famous with the name of “Bapu”.
It is called as the Father of the Nation just because of its efforts and sacrifices towards the
Indian People. He was born in Gujarat, India and trained in law at the Inner Temple, London.