Introduction
For the longest time, management theories were limited to the behavioural characteristics of the people in leadership roles and their consequent relations with their subordinates. This approach is commonly referred to as a top-down due to its vertical nature. In a top-down scenario of leadership, the management not only influences the subordinates but also literarily micromanages them in every aspect. However, in the past few decades, organizational behaviourists have proposed a different ideology that asserts productivity in an organizational set-up is maximized if and only if leadership is shared among all employees.
Self-leadership is “a process through which individuals influence and lead themselves ...