3 ASSIGNMENTS

3 Assignments



Assignment 1

Introduction

A stream of strategic thinking, called ecology of organizations, denies the importance of leadership and considers the senior management team as passive agents with minimal impact on the development of the company. An alternative paradigm is the upper echelons theory, which argues that in a context of bounded rationality, cognitive base and values ??limit the field of selective perception, interpretation and, therefore, perceptions of the management and strategy selection.

Discussion

Leadership refers to the influence of a person on your group. Through this influence, the leader gets others to carry out the tasks that are to be developed in the service of collective efficacy. The success of the organization is the main measure leadership effectiveness.

Relationship between Strategic Management and Leadership

People generally assume that a manager, by default, is a leader. In reality, a leader and a manager can be distinguished clearly. The leader has followers, and the manager is a follower. There is a thin line of difference between leadership and management. One thing that is common in both leadership and management is that both deals with working with other people and working towards attainment of goals (Northouse, 2007, pp. 58). Both of these fields are separated from each other, but they go hand in hand. When an organization wants to bring change it has to work in a way that amalgamates functions of both the fields. If long-term focus of the organization (leadership) is not aligned with short term goals and task completion (management).

Nature of the relationship is one aspect that separates management from leadership. Management involves more authoritative relationship that flows from top to down. On the other hand, leadership involves more influential relationship between the members. In the case of leadership, the leader influences his or her followers and also cause influence on the overall process of leadership and in turn followers also cause influence on leaders and process of leadership.

From a theoretical and conceptual perspective, these differences may seem to be very clear, but in the practical world, the scenario is entirely different. There are many concepts and aspects that overlap and merge with each other in the practical world.

Management and Leadership have been significantly associated with one another since leading itself is one of the core components of effective management that is, planning, organizing, leading and controlling. The reason leading is a key component is because when employees, students, subordinates, coordinators or even family members living in a family setting or grouping are required and obliged to follow certain rules and principles set by an authoritative individual or body or organization that runs the entire setup. Thus for effective management, strong and effective leadership skills are necessary and inevitably crucial in order for the entire system of conduct to survive accordingly.

Leaders create change, focus on leading people, have followers, have long-term goals and are proactive. They create the vision, approach vision by setting direction, facilitate in decision making, and use personal charisma. They also have the transformational style, exchange excitement for work, use conflict ...