"The Relationship Between Leadership Styles and Managerial Creativity in families companies"

"The Relationship Between Leadership Styles and Managerial Creativity in families companies"

Management and leadership are considered synonymous, but actually they are two different words. Management is defined as, “The art, manner or practice of managing, handling supervision or control whereas leadership is defined as, “The ability to: "express a vision, influence others to achieve results, encourage team cooperation, and be an example." Leadership is "getting others to want to do things." Leadership is intimately tied up with motivating and influencing others. Managers are administrators who write business plans, set budgets, monitor progress, solve problems and facilitate meetings. A manager achieves authority and position through experience, understanding, time and loyalty. Managers have subordinates but a leader has followers. A leader can be a manager, but a manager is not necessarily a leader. The leader of the work group may emerge informally as the choice of the group. If a manager is able to influence people to achieve the goals of the organization, without using his or her formal authority to do so, then the manager is demonstrating leadership.

A company's culture determines a lot of the organizations behavior. A culture may be strong (having a dramatic influence over an individuals behavior) or weak (having a relatively low impact on behavior).A strong culture is a coherent set of beliefs, values, assumptions, and practices embraced by most members of the organization. It fosters motivation, commitment, identity, solidarity, and sameness, which, in turn, facilitates internal integration and coordination.

An understanding of organizational culture and how to transform it is crucially important for managers and leaders to achieve strategic outcomes. The position of strategic leaders in an organization assists them to see the dynamics of their organizational culture and attain the essence of strategic success through positive transformation.

“Effective managers ...