Whistle Blowing and Leadership Style- Indian Context

There is a need for democratic style of leadership at the top level. The management support and interaction to employees results in healthy reporting behavior among employees. But unfortunately the presence of leadership style in a leader depends on individual personality traits. This can be dealt by choosing right leader for right issue by the whistle blower. The results reveals that democratic style of leadership encourages whistle blowing and autocratic style of leadership discourage the employees in blowing the whistle and so they are made to keep quite by not reporting the observed wrongdoing. If organization wants to encourage whistle blowing practice among employees, then the leader must be trained in adopting democratic style of leadership to avoid the extremity of the negative situations, which may cause serious injury to the public interests and organization interests at the earliest creating win-win situation.  

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