Today, more attention is paid to the leadership and leaders in the mining industry. Leadership and leaders have a key role in creating a sustainable competitive advantage of enterprises. Leaders initiate changes and create conditions for higher quality products and services and contribute to the improvement of market position of the company. Enterprises in their operations seek to ensure personnel that possess leadership skills due to their belief that such people can provide the additional

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... e to their organizations. Bearing in mind the importance of the leaders for organization, therefore this manuscript is aimed to the selection of leaders in the mining industry based on the use of multiple-criteria decisionmaking methods (MCDM). The proposed approach for selection of leaders is based on the use of the SWARA method and a weighted sum preferred levels of performances approach (WS PLP). The usability and efficiency of the proposed approach is considered on the conducted empirical example.