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TERM PAPER OF
MICRO ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
BY GROUP-6
ON
LEADERSHIP
OF
GARY KIRSTEN
BY:
ABHISHEK KUMAR 1 – 120064
ANUJA – 120071
JAYA LAL – 120078
MAAZ AHMAD QAIYUM – 120082
NITISH KR MISHRA -120090
TANU SINGH -120115
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INTRODUCTION
Good leadership has the ability to make any team or business great. Whether you are a junior
intern, entrepreneur or an experienced business manager, the value of leadership remains a
precious commodity. In 2011, world cup one thing which get shadowed is the off-field
leadership. World cup winning coach, Gary Kirsten is one of the best off-field leaders who
guided team from off-field to achieve the new heights.
Gary Kirsten is a South African cricket coach and former cricketer. He has played 101 Test
matches and 185 One Day Internationals for South Africa between 1993 and 2004, mainly as an
opening batsman. He had made history by becoming first-ever Protest to play 100 Test matches.
He officially started as coach on 1 March 2008.
A highly accomplished batsman himself, he brought a considerable amount of experience with
himself which helped younger players to learn from him and that gave confidence to younger
players to perform in every situation.
It was not an easy task for Gary Kirsten to start as Indian coach because he was not having any
prior experience of coaching. He was working as a batting consultant for an African club. There
was a huge pressure on him to start as Indian coach because India lost badly in 2007 world cup
and there was no any world cup win since 1984. According to Gary the main difference between
Asian countries and other continental teams is that Asian players use to play with natural talents
while other continent’s players use to play with team efforts. So, it was important for Gary to
introduce the team efforts in the team.
Gary Kirsten has been praised by all player for improving and enhancing their playing
techniques, motivating them and discussing tactics that could be deployed on the field. The
results could be clearly seen within months. He was one of the most important key behind the
improvement of all players. In 2010, prior to the start of India’s tour to South Africa, Indian
captain M.S. Dhoni described him as “The best thing to happen to Indian cricket.”
There were lots of such reasons as discussed above to choose Gary Kirsten for our case. The
analysis of his attempts for Indian cricket team and his working style helps us to link it directly
with different leadership theories and styles.
ABOUT CASE
We are choosing Gary Kirsten over because he is able to connect to all levels of the players. The
leader back their team in every decision and that’s what he always used to do. It was not about
who played well and who didn’t. When one player was down, two others covered up his game,
when two great players were out of the game that only meant nine great players were in queue
waiting to conquer. This is the environment he created in dressing room.
In this case there are many lessons which shows that leader only want his players to improve
through his experience. This case includes lessons like leadership, maturity, management, team
spirit, importance of team culture, importance of trust etc. He is package of all these qualities.
At the time of his tenure, he earns the respect of every team member along Sachin, Sehwag,
Dhoni and Gambhir. Everyone had witnessed the moment after the win of team India in world
