• Chitra Sathe (Duvedi)
• Dr. Sabhoo Nasim

MSME forms a significant contributor to the economy. According to fourth all India census of MSME, the sector consists of over 36 million units leading to employment to over 80 million people. MSME contributes towards more than one third of manufactured output and more than one third GDP of India (Annual report 2015-16, 2017). With ever increasing global competition these small enterprises experience various challenges as well as opportunities. Large organizations manage the changing scenario, by committing to the efforts for ‘organization development’. The two pillars of this development include the improvement of the process and the improvement of capability. Capability that is put to use through action and that leads to better performance is termed as “competency”. (Boyatzis, 2008; Jacobs, 1989). Leadership competencies refer to skills and behaviours of the leaders of the organization that lead to superior performance. The SME leader, who is most often the owner of the enterprise, needs to develop the leadership competencies. However, the leadership development efforts in SMEs are often found to be unstructured and insignificant. In order to create a development oriented ecosystem for SMEs, it is important to identify the competencies that the leaders consider most important and desire to develop. Based on the data collected from 230 owner leaders across India this study is expected to help in orienting the development effort and thus help make SMEs more effective.

IMPORTANT LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES – STUDY OF PERCEPTION OF INDIAN SME LEADERS

"IMPORTANT LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES – STUDY OF PERCEPTION OF INDIAN SME LEADERS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no.274-284, July-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRA006049.pdf

"IMPORTANT LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES – STUDY OF PERCEPTION OF INDIAN SME LEADERS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no. pp274-284, July-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRA006049.pdf