Multiple choice

Listed below are four leadership qualities mentioned by Chester Barnard:

  1. Responsibility and intellectual capacity.
  2. Decisiveness.
  3. Vitality and endurance.
  4. Persuasiveness. What according to him is their importance in descending order? Choose the correct answer from the codes given below.

  1. 1, 2, 4 and 3

  2. 2, 1, 4 and 3

  3. 3, 2, 4 and 1

  4. 4, 2, 1 and 3

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C Correct answer
Explanation

Chester Barnard, in his work 'The Functions of the Executive', listed leadership qualities and emphasized their importance in a specific order: Vitality and endurance (3), Decisiveness (2), Persuasiveness (4), and Responsibility and intellectual capacity (1).