A PROJECT REPORT Submitted for Internal Assessment of

Gender and Leadership

Under The Guidance Of

PROF. POOJA KATARA

SUBMITTED BY

KAPIL SAHI
ROLL NO. 23, P6 (HR) PGP/2008-10/FW/DEL

In partial fulfillment for the award of the degree Of

Masters of Business Administration (MBA)

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT, NEW DELHI NOVEMBER 2009

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I would sincerely like to thank Ms. POOJA KATARA for her invaluable guidance, cooperation, constant advice and her big reservoir of experience and knowledge which have been instrumental in completion of this report. Ms. Katara has been extremely helpful for making this report a reality and hopefully a success. I extend deep appreciation to our fellow program members for encouraging us not only to complete our project but also assisting in the little ways which proved to be quite valuable.

Kapil Sahi Program Member

Indian Institute of Planning and Management New Delhi.

Everything could change, Politics would be more collgial. Businesses would be more productive. And communities would be healthier. Empowering women would make the world a better placenot because women are t he same as men, but precisely because they are different.

I challenge you to imagine a not-too-distant future in which increasing numbers of women reach the top ranks of politics, business, science, and academia. Assessing the crucial but long-ignored strengths that female leaders bring to the table. "Women tend to be better communicators, better listeners, better at forming consensus,"

In a highly competitive and increasingly fractious world, women possess the kind of critical problem-solving skills that are urgently needed to break down barriers, build understanding, and create the best conditions for peace. For, several millennia, women were confined to private life, where they raised children and managed domestic matters. Public life was the province of men, created by and for men. When women started moving into this traditionally male bastion, they had to take that world as they found it. From the earliest days, women succeeded by adopting the rituals of men, by going native. But women aren't men. So accepting the idea that they should behave like menbut don'thas created this sense that they're a cheaper model, that they're a Toyota to the male Lexussame manufacturer, but without all the extra horsepower, fancy upholstery, and state-of-the-art electronics.

From as far back as I can remember, I knew that boys and girls were different. They looked different. They dressed different. And they were treated different. Women have "outstanding verbal agility, the ability to connect deeply in friendship, a nearly psychic capacity to read faces and tone of voice for emotions and states of mind, the ability to defuse conflict.

So therefore, I stand with the point that women have different leadership style than men.