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Mr. Singh needs to be warned about such statements
Dear Editor,
One of the weekend newspapers carried an article by Mr Sase Singh titled: “The Finale—it is time for distributive leadership”. At first glance I thought Mr Singh’s article might have been directed to the Hon. Dr Rupert Roopnarine and his top people in the field of education because the concept of “distributive leadership” has its genesis in educational administration (where, incidentally, there are still debates about its relevance and efficacy). However, I became alarmed when I realized that Mr Singh’s article was focused on the sugar industry and more so, in his words: “was written for the primary benefit of field and factory foremen and the workers, in general, to better empower them to take the industry forward”!
As a member of the COI into the sugar industry, the Report of which is still under consideration by our Government, I am restrained from saying or writing things which might be premature or misinterpreted; but, as an experienced Human Resource Management professional, I am constrained to warn against indiscriminate ‘prescriptions’ of presumed panaceas like ‘distributive leadership’, ‘visioning’, ‘core values’ etc while overlooking or ignoring the wisdom of pragmatic, situational and contextual leadership.
Nowrang Persaud
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