MOTIVATIONAL AND MANAGERIAL STYLES IN ORGANIZATIONS.

The process of liberalization has forced Indian Organizations, to rethink of new ways of survival, and it is seen that most organizations are in transitory phase. In this transitory phase every organization has to think of ways to adopt themselves to the changing work forces scenario keeping in mind the competition and the means to nurture and retain excellent managers and their motivational styles in suitable organization. This is an empirical and scientific study. The purpose of this study is to analyses whether the age (New & Old) and type (Public & Private) of organization do influence managerial styles (parent, adult & child), motivational styles of managers (Coercive, Pace setter, Authoritarian, Affiliator & Democratic), various motivational behavior of organization and their interrelationship. This is a 2x2 factorial design of research. Where age and type of organization are independent variable and managerial styles, motivational dynamics & motivational analysis of organization behavior (MAOB) are dependent variable. The sample consists of 240 executives from four organizations, 60 from each such as old public sector, new public sector, old private sector and new private sector. The results show that there are significant differences between old and new organizations and between private and public sectors with regard to certain important dimensions of managerial and motivational styles. The findings were interpreted in the light of present Indian research as well as available Organizational Behaviour framework. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]