Leadership and Management
editLeadership and Management are two terms that are often confused or used as the same thing, but there is a big difference between them. Leadership is a setting of new direction or vision for a group they follow, while management controls or direct people and resources in a group according to the principles that are already set up. The two terms are delivered from the term leader and manager. A leader instigates change, develops and inspires staff, takes a long-term perspective and motivates through developing relationships of trust, while a manager implements and manages change, supervises staff focuses on immediate and short term goals as well as motivates through formal authority and control.
Further more, good management brings about order and consistency by setting up formal plans, designing rigid structures, and monitoring results against the plans. It controls resources to make sure that things happen according to the already existing plans. It also implement the vision and strategy provided by leaders, coordinating and staffing the organization and handling day to day problems. On the same ground, leadership (leaders) establish direction by developing a vision of the future and align people by communicating this vision and inspiring them to overcome hurdles. Leadership is an interpersonal process which involves the leader's influencing group activities and action as well as a role model in order to inspire people to achieve their personal and group needs. It is the ability of using one's skills, qualities and power to influence the thoughts and actions of other people toward the achievement of vision and goals.
There are several leadership styles. Leadership styles refers to the manner and approach of providing directions, implementing plans and motivate people. The three types of leaders are: Authoritarian style, which is used when leaders tell their employees what they want to be done and how they want it accomplished, without getting advice of their followers. This method is used on rare occasions. The second leadership style is the democratic style, which involves including of one or more employees by the leader in the decision making process, this is a sign of strength that employees must respect and it is knowledgeable and skilful employees who are needed in this case, this leads to better decision making and other mutual benefits. The last leadership style is the Free reign, which authorizes the leader to allows the employees to make decisions, but the leader is still responsible for analyzing these decisions that are made.
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