Leadership and Management Overlap

The assignment discusses the differences between leadership and management, highlighting that while management involves planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling, leadership is about influencing others to achieve goals. Both leaders and managers need to be visionary thinkers, influence motivation and morale, resolve conflicts, and cope with changes. The overlap between leadership and management allows nurse leaders to expand their influence and create change by implementing critical thinking, communication, conflict resolution, active listening, and coping skills.

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Introduction
The concept of Leadership and Management differs from each other in several ways. The
management of the organization is responsible for planning, organizing, staffing, directing, as
well as controlling. The management has the authority to execute all the above-mentioned tasks,
and the management can determine the process and procedures of the organization. The
management is also responsible for optimizing patient care. The management is also fiscally
responsible. On the other hand, the leader may or may not have an official role of authority. The
leader of the organization may not be responsible for planning, organizing, staffing, directing or
controlling but the leader may have the capability or power in order to influence and affect others
(Bolden, 2016). The leaders can affect the thinking pattern, the process of accomplishing the
goals and objectives, the attitude and behavior of the employees, the determination and
commitment of the employees through their ability. Interpersonal relationship is the major focus
of leaders. The leaders are generally known as coaches, role models, advocates, mentors, etc.
The areas where the leader and the management overlap are the following. The leader and the
management both are needed to be visionary thinkers. They need to see the future and have
forecasting ability. Both are needed to influence the level of motivation and morale of others in
order to accomplish the desired goals and objectives (Anderson et al., 2017). Most importantly,
both the leader and the management need to have the ability and skills to resolve the conflict as
well as the capability to cope with the changes.
The goals of the leader and the management overlap because both of them have to accomplish
the ultimate goals and objectives of the organization. Both of them have to resolve the conflict
within the organization in order to ensure the effectiveness as well as the efficiency of the

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organization. And hence ensuring efficiency as well as effectiveness within the organization is
also one of the goals of the leader as well as the management.
As a nurse leader, the individuals can expand their influence in order to create change by taking
advantage of such overlap. Implementing critical thinking skills, communication skills, conflict
resolution skills, active listening skills as well as coping skills are important to succeed as a
nurse leader. All of the above skills can help the leaders to expand their influence in order to
create change (Ceylan, 2018). With the help of such skills, a leader can effectively work in a
high paced as well as high-stress environment. This also leads to expand the influence in order to
create change.

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References
Bolden, R. (2016). Leadership, management, and organizational development. In Gower
handbook of leadership and management development (pp. 143-158). Routledge.
Anderson, M. H., & Sun, P. Y. (2017). Reviewing leadership styles: Overlaps and the need for a
new ‘full‐range’theory. International Journal of Management Reviews, 19(1), 76-96.
Ceylan, H. (2018). Leadership in nursing. Journal of Nursing Research and Practice, 2(2).