MANAGING PEOPLE AND ORGANISATIONS

Managing People and Organisations - Stories Provide Meaning, Structure and Leadership in Organisations

Managing People and Organisations - Stories Provide Meaning, Structure and Leadership in Organisations

Introduction

There are people who are distinguished from all others, not by natural talent or knowledge but for his ability to inspire others to dream and make your dreams come true, to generate passion and energy into everything they do and transmit it to the people around them. Their role, there is a huge difference between being a leader and being a boss, which is limited to meet senior managers and find that the people around you do what is required. The leader is someone respected, admired, and followed by his team. He builds the best conditions for your organisation forward, always giving the example, and implementing projects from start to finish. He knows how to interpret what happens inside and outside the company, and manages, through his entrepreneurial vision and management skills, become him and his company more competitive in the market. A leader known for creating the future promotes and directs the changes in your life and the organisation he works for, is sociable, promotes its growth and the people around you, is tolerant, flexible, and takes risks. (McCauley, 2003, 112) Leadership is the process by which an individual has influence over people and inspires, motivates and directs its activities to reach the goals; the essence of leadership is to have followers. Within the process, there are several principles Administration (Management) harmony of goals, motivation, leadership, and communication. Leadership varies from country to country and culture, for European managers are more humanistic than the Japanese or Americans. In Japan, there is a collaborative culture and focuses more on the group in the individual and are more individualist in Europe, the United States, the organisation is fast and in Japan. Power of the leader is the ability to induce or influence the beliefs or actions of other individuals or groups. Authority is a right in a position to make decisions. Formal authority is a power based on the recognition of the legitimacy. Components of Leadership is the ability to use power effectively and responsibly. Ability to understand that human beings have different motivational forces at different times, ability to inspire, ability to act in a way to develop an environment conducive to responding to the motivations and encouraged (Collins, 2001, 217). People spend most of their time trying to plan how they will develop their activities, planning how they will achieve their goals and other less important, and sometimes spend more time trying to organize his time. There are also people methods that achieve organize their time, so they achieve their objectives and develop effectively. To keep a good control of time and a good time management must be clear about where you want to go, hence the importance of addressing a vision, mission, goals and recognize some real strengths and some weaknesses. Among the characteristics of a true leader is the ...