Leadership and Management Literature and Theories

Assessment

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Discussion on leadership and management literature or theories..........................................1
Evaluation of leadership development programme................................................................7
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Leadership and management are key functions of a business as they assists in maximising
efficiency along with productivity so that determined goals are met within stipulated duration.
Leadership is defined to the action or art to stimulate an individual or group of people with the
purpose that that they act for attaining common objectives for attaining needs and requirements
of company (Al-Daaja, 2017). Moreover, leaders do not have any interrelation with job titles,
positions in organisational hierarchy and personal attributes. In contrary, management is defined
as the administration of entire business that oversees all the workings and performs various
functions that are planning, organising, directing along with controlling in sequential manner so
that all the set short term and long term aims are achieved in effective manner. Furthermore,
managers gave huge relations with positions, job titles and attributes of any individual that work
in the entity. The essay is prepared by considering National Health Service (NHS) that is
publicly funded healthcare organization that is situated in United Kingdom since 1948 (NHS,
2020). The system focuses on supporting approaches of political reforms to heath as well as
work. The company has more than 1.4 million employees that work to deliver suitable healthcare
services to all legal residents of England as well as residents that are living in other regions of the
nation. Its most of the services are free at usage point. Few of its offered services include
emergency treatment along with treatment to cure infectious diseases that are free for all
including visitors also. The essay highlights information about management and leadership
concepts and reviews leadership theories. Further, it includes evaluates leadership development
programme.
MAIN BODY
Discussion on leadership and management literature or theories
Definition and discussion on concepts of management and leadership:
Management: Management is defined as multipurpose organ which assist in effectively
managing workforce, work and company. It is the art of an individual who gets things
accomplished from different people as well as with formal organised groups to gain beneficiary
outcomes. It is the concept that is associated with understanding what people want to do along
with seeing that employees are working it in best together with cheapest manner to gain
objectives (Armstrong, 2016). At NHS, managers undertakes responsibilities to ensure smooth
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operations, overall success as we as accomplishment of objectives. They oversees all workings,
communicate with higher authorities, formulate and enforce necessary policies, containments
risks, and focuses on all aspects of strategies of company. Managers frame various decisions so
that all the operations are performed effectively, systematically and promptly which results in
enhancing effectiveness of the service healthcare.
Leadership: Leadership is defined as the ability or capacity to leading or providing
directions to manpower so that they work in the achieving objectives. The concept of leadership
is all about leading others to move in certain path in pursuit of specific objective. It is concerned
with lifting vision to higher sights, building personality ahead of normal limitations and raising
performance of an individual to higher benchmarks or standards (Bush and Glover, 2016). The
leaders of NHS perform role of building confidence among new or current employees to
implement activities, demonstrating shared values, supports people who takes risks and supports
their new ideas, manages time in different activities and communicate with all staff, patients
together with other parties related to public sector in clear and honest manner. Along with this,
leaders of the service system also contributes to deliver good health addition to care services to
patients and population that improves their livings as well as provide them healthy life which is
necessary to manage the business practices.
Differences and similarities among management to that of leadership:
Following are the similarities of management and leadership in context to NHS:
Basis Management Leadership
Allocating
resource
The main concern of
management is to allocate
resources in the entire
organisation in efficient manner.
In context to leadership, its
major concern is that resources
are allocated to all members of
the team efficiently.
Influencing work
structure
Management of a company
implements policies and plans
those results in influencing work
structure addition to
environment.
Organisational leadership is all
about stimulating manpower of
the company through rewards
and incentives that leads to
influencing work environment
together with structure (Cherry
and Jacob, 2016).
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