ϖ Section 1: Leadership: What sort of Leader am I? What sort of Leader could I become?
¬ Introduction:
Leadership is a critical topic due to the different aspects the people view it, what goods and right to me might be wrong and bad for others, for example I could see Margaret Thatcher as a leader and others might see her as a normal person who did not make a change. When it comes to define the leaders and leadership we can’t come to one conclusion and we can’t narrow it into one definition even the theories are different when it comes leadership, we have the trait theory which claims that people are born leader, Style theory which sais that leaders have the knowledge and the assumption about what motive people to accomplish goals, the
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I see leadership and I quote from Abraham Lincoln definition to democracy “Government for the people by the people to the people” in my opinion leadership is about being a person for the people been chosen by the people and serve the needs of the people.
In this report I’ll discuss the definition of leadership and management and what are their differences, what sort of leader am I and finally what sort of leader I hoping to become.
¬ What do leadership and management mean? – what are their differences?
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” ― Peter F. Drucker the quote shows the main difference between leadership and management.
Both leadership and management are important, leaders provide guidance to individuals and groups to attain goals and mangers carry out specific roles and functions set by the organization such as monitoring and directing others.
Managers are expected to be leasers but not every manager is a leader just as not everyone in leadership position shows leadership.
• Definition of leadership and management:
“Leadership is a major way in which people change the minds of others and move organizations forward to accomplish identified goals”.
Leadership is a process of guiding others; it could be conferred through appointment or
Leadership is about getting people to understand and believe in your vision and to work with you to achieve your goals while managing is more about administering and making sure the day-to-day things are happening as they should.
Although the terms “management” and “leadership” are often confused as in meaning the same there is a distinction between the words. The distinction between the words is that people manage things and lead people (Collins, 2017).
Management is working in the system while leadership is working on the system. They actually speak for themselves a manger manages people and work while the leader job is to lead people. Leaders and managers thinking process, goal setting, employee relations, operation and governance is all different. Leaderships thinking process focuses on people and looks outward while management focuses on things and looks inward. Goal setting in leadership articulates visions and also creates the future while management executes plans and improves the present. Leaders employee relations empowers colleague’s, trust and develops and manager’s controls, subordinates, directs and coordinates. Leaders operation does the right things usually creates change and serves subordinates but management does things right, manages change and serves superordinate’s. Leaders governance uses influences, conflict and acts decisively and manager’s governance uses authority, Avoids conflict and acts
To fully explain the relationship between Leadership and Management we need to appreciate that the two go hand in hand, they are by no means the same thing but they complement each other when driving any team to perform and exceed targets within a business. The manager’s job is very task-focused. They often have to follow company
Much has been written about the difference between management and leadership. In the past, competent management staffs ran effective companies. In light of our ever-changing world, however, most companies have come to realize that it is much more important to lead than to manage. In today's world the old ways of management no longer work. One reason is that the degree of environmental and competitive change we are experiencing is extreme. Although exciting, the world is also very unstable and confused. In an article entitled What’s the Difference between Your Hospital and the Other? Gary Campbell states that the difference between a manager and a leader is that the manager “finds himself quite willing to
Management and leadership are often thought of as the same within business. The fact is that each of these has a different meaning:
One way to establish the difference between management and leadership is the fact that leadership is simply one of the many things that a manager should have. In fact, this should be one of the priorities of a manager. But aside from this, a manager also needs to be highly knowledgeable in administrative tasks, because this also comprises a huge part of their job. Specifically, a manager has four major functions to do: Planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. All these functions have been proven to be essential in any kind of management process, and serve as the main foundation of all organizations (Bateman & Snell, 2009).
There is a difference between leadership and management, although they are similar in some ways. While, they both want to achieve common goals, influence people, and work with people, they are different. Managers aim to create consistency and
Roles of leadership produces change among the movement, establishes direction, aligning people, motivating and inspiring. The roles of both leadership and management have impact on each other and can inspire and make one advance into something they did not believe they have in themselves. Functions of management are making sure employee’s time is managed, jobs assigned are structured, and problems are solved with a prominent solution. Leadership functions are providing a vision one can build up in one’s mind that evolves into a big picture, building goals and teams to brooding ideas, and motivating people that energize them to be motivated to want to work. These roles are similar because leaders can manage and visa verse. Leaders lead people while management delegates roles to lower
Leadership and management are similar; however, have different definitions. Some leaders have an innate ability to learn whereas others may have to learn how to lead. A manager may not be an effective leader. A leader must possess certain characteristics to be effective. Communication, fairness, and leadership knowledge are the top three characteristics of an effective leader.
Leadership is about creating a vision for that function and gaining peoples commitment by strategic direction.
Management and leadership are viewed as two different perspectives in the business environment. As described by Dr. Warren Bennis ‘Managers are people who do things right, while leaders are people who do the right thing’, this means that managers do things by the set rules and follow company policy, while leaders follow their own intuition, which may in turn be of more benefit to the company.
Another difference between managers and leaders is that managers tend to control or micromanage their department. Such management style causes employees to be unhappy and possibly rebel. Under these types of
The concepts of leadership and management are often viewed in different ways with different theories and schools of thought regarding the meaning of these terms (Gold, Thorpe and Mumford, 2010). Management and leadership can be defined individually and encompass different roles and attributes, however, both management and
The relation between leadership and management has for a longtime influenced how organizations are perceived. It has also contributed to maintain some type of confusion in education and within the organization itself.