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Management and Leadership

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Management and Leadership Paper Within the organizational structure of most businesses you will likely find management and leadership coexisting. Commonly, the words are often substituted for on another. However, each word has a distinctly different definition. A manager does not necessarily make a good manager. Management is defined as those individuals in an organization that have the authority and the responsibility to manage the organization through the control of production processes and ensuring that they operate efficiently and effectively. Leadership is defined as the skills and ability to set future goals in accordance with the organizational goals and to communicate those goals to other employees in such a way that they …show more content…

The "Hand" is then presented to the employee in a meeting in front of all their peer employees. Each "Hand" could be redeemed at the time of reward or saved until a later time for a more expensive item. There is also no limit as to the number of "Hands" that can be issued to any employee. I have found this type of recognition program to be very successful, especially in salvaging some once disgruntled employees. Even as part of the management team in my organization, I am limited on the ways that I can reward employees for work well done. I cannot authorize an unscheduled pay raise and I cannot give them time off outside of the company policy. I have however, bought lunch and dinner with my personal money, I have allowed them to take extra break/lunch time ( as production commitments would allow), and verbal praise and recognition. To date, the "Give A Hand" recognition program has proved the most successful. I attribute the main reason to the fact that they are in control of the reward along with the recognition. In summary, management is about control through a series of control mechanisms and although leadership is one of the four principles of management, leadership is a combination of personal traits and skills that directly affects the opinions and attitudes of people, leading to changes in behavior. A person can be an effective manager but that does not necessarily make that

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