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Diversity in Technology Leadership

Ajay Pal Singh Arora
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Ajay Pal Singh Arora
Today, the technology industry has reached a state where the leadership potential is inherent and developed in the discipline itself. With the pressures to ramp up fast, corporates feel less of a need to look at the other industries for a policy to hire and choose the next leader from the existing team.

On the other hand, innovation, new practices, and differentiating factors tend to develop when you mix staff from two different disciplines or depute a person from one industry to another.

The organizational culture becomes dependent on the leadership style and the leader’s background and hence alignment of the corporate objectives with leadership background becomes more vital than the basic skills.

Different facets of an IT project or an operations process may need different type of leadership.

1. Autocratic: An autocratic leadership style becomes important to ensure that the project schedules are met. It leads to an effective supervision with faster decision making, detailed instructions, and orders. It is easier to get work done in an industry where attrition rates are high and lot of fresh engineers have to be absorbed as trainees. The style leads to a more productive output while the leader is watching. This should be balanced while employees are engaged in cultural and bonding activities beyond work to ensure staff morale is not affected. A person from the armed forces background may be included to inculcate this practice among the rest of the management team.


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