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The role of the community leader gains importance under the severe socio-economic environment prevalent in rural areas. How does the leadership shown while the variety of the community increased? In this paper, we explored the behavior of these leaders and the manner in which they were nurtured over the stages of community development through interviews and surveys.
Our study showed that in addition to acquiring the trust of their community, it has become important for today’s rural leaders to acquire knowledge and establish a network by carrying out work outside the community. The emerging problems that they have to face are with regard to the formation of agreements and promotion of community participation, the variety of and the differences between community inhabitants, etc. Furthermore, there is greater emphasis on M-oriented behavior than P-oriented behavior today.
These results clarified that knowledge management and the reformation of the age-grade system (construction of social OJT) are the challenges in the path of the nurturing of new leaders.
