MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP.

Management and Leadership

Management and Leadership

Introduction

Management and leadership is a vital component of an organization. Both play a very important part in the success of the organization. A strong leader is essential to lead the entire team towards success. The vision created by the leadership not only aspire others but it also energize them to work towards this vision. The management and leadership develop a new vision in the people that helps them in achieving their set goals. Through these set goals, it becomes easier for the people to become successful in their lives. This paper highlights the different aspects of the management and leadership and how managers do things right, while leaders do the right thing (Fiedler, 2009).

Discussion

The leadership creates a vision to which others can aspire. It energizes people to work towards this created vision to attain their objectives. All these visions and ideas can be created by the leaders in order to enhance the effectiveness of the people. It is not important that the proposed vision by the leaders is always true but they give direction to the people to lead their way. The leadership is not only about the leaders but also about the managers. The managers are the leaders of their firm and lead people to gain the efficiency. The qualities of the leaders are inborn but they can also be developed to some extent (Daniel, 2002).

It is critical that the leadership develops such ideas and vision that facilitates the people to achieve their goals and objectives. Anyone can manage other people. But only few managers can develop a meaningful vision happens to make the most of a team. An example of it is given by the bestselling author Harry Beckwith. He stated that few Americans aspire to manage the most talented people despise the very idea. The managers do not manage people. They create a company and feel so concerned that they do not require management. They create such goals that are so convincing that the employees manage themselves to achieve them (Henry, 2004).

A manager is an individual who is employed by an organization, and is responsible and accountable for accomplishing goals of the organization. I also believe that just because someone is a manager that does not mean they are an effective leader and vice versa. Management is about coping with complexity whereas leadership is about coping with change. Managers maintain, while leaders develop. Leaders are considered to be visionary and future-oriented, whereas managers focus on day-to-day routine activities. Leaders are vision process-oriented, where managers are organizational-oriented (Henry, 2004)

Both leaders and managers focus on people, but managers also focus on systems and structures. Leaders are decision makers along with managers, but managers may take longer to make decisions because they need to be aware of the organizational visions and goals. Where managers deal with conflict, leaders seem to be involved with conflict- meaning a manager accepts the status quo, where the leader challenges ...