Abstract

The difference of management and leadership is a question that is being discussed more and more in today's corporate environment. Different views and roles in a business, both share a common bond in the corporate structure. The key distinction between is the way they influence the corporate structure. Persons in a leadership role, set strategic goals for the company; while management implements these goals and aids them to fruition. Strategic goals are defined as broad statements that the organization ultimately wants to achieve with their vision and mission. These goals are typically long-term objectives that may take ten years or longer to achieve. Management takes these long-term goals and divides them into smaller more defined objectives. Leadership typically looks at the bigger picture while management concentrates on smaller objectives in order to assist leadership in accomplishing their long-term visions. Many would argue that these goals are the most important aspect of a business, however there are many moving parts that come together to make a successful business operate.

Table of Content

INTRODUCTION3

Difference between Management and Leadership4

Role of Leadership6

Role of Management16

Alexander the Great: Leadership and Management22

Leadership41

Organizational Culture42

Four Functions of Management and Organizational Culture43

Planning43

Organizing44

Leading44

Controlling45

CHAPTER TWO56

LITERATURE REVIEW56

Leadership and Management Myths67

Effective Leadership and Management74

Effective Leadership in Complex Organizations75

Image management84

Information-processing approaches87

Relationship development92

Cultural factors107

Strategic Leadership vs. Strategic Management: Untying the Gordian Knot118

CHAPTER THREE133

METHODOLOGY133

Charismatic and Transformational Leadership142

Ways Women Lead143

Leadership and Management144

CHAPTER FOUR146

DISCUSSION146

Leadership vs. Management: Characteristics of a Manager163

CHAPTER FIVE168

CONCLUSION168

Leadership Styles195

Leadership versus Management198

Suggestions for an Effective and Efficient Team Process200

WORK CITED205

CHAPTER ONE

Introduction

As long as there have been human endeavors, there have been people willing to take charge; people willing to plan, organize, staff, and control the work. One might say that nature abhors a vacuum and thus someone will always step forward to fill a leadership void.

Probably the natural emergence of leadership grew out of our instinct for survival. In the hostile world of early humankind, food, shelter, and safety needs usually required cooperative efforts, and cooperative efforts required some form of leadership. Certainly, leadership has vested in the heads of early families via the patriarchal system. The oldest member of the family was the most experienced and has presumed to be the wisest member of the family and thus was the natural leader.

As families grew into tribes and tribes evolved into nations, additional complex forms of leadership were required and did evolve. Divisions of labor and supervision practices recorded, on the earliest written record, the clay tablets of the Sumerians. In Sumerian society, as in many others since, the wisest and best leaders have thought to be the priests and other religious leaders. Likewise, the ancient Babylonian cities developed very strict codes, such as the code of Hammurabi. King Nebuchadnezzar use color codes to control production of the hanging gardens, and there were weekly and annual reports, norms for productivity, and rewards for piecework (Warren Bennis, 2008).

The Egyptians organized their people and their slaves to build their cities and pyramids. Planning, organizing, and controlling were essential elements of that and other feats, many of them long term. The ancient ...