The role of leaders in motivation of employees in the mining companies

The new millennium brings a new paradigm of business that takes place in completely different conditions and is based primarily on knowledge, creativity and post-modern leadership. Radical changes, in which today's economy and its entities exist and develop, require the new ways of leadership. Hence, the new paradigm articulates and gives a critical dimension of leadership, as an interaction between the leaders and followers, with the intention to change it, based more on the emotional and ethical assumptions than on forced active influence, having in mind the nature of the business performed by the employees in various activities, especially in the mining companies. The aim of this analysis is to determine the correctness of relationship between the leaders and followers as a social category and projections of further trend of this relationship, given that it is supposed that this relationship is A direct reflection on motivation the followers in their work and the results of work in the mining companies.