Developing Leadership and Management Skills

Developing Leadership
and Management Skills

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
Leadership is procedure of leading and motivating people to achieve company's
objectives along with employee's personal goals. Leader is one who directs, controls, motivates,
and organise group of people and lead their way to attainment of common goals. Leadership is
essential in every organisation so that workforce stay motivated and focused to succeed in
attainment of goals of organisation. Without an efficient and effective leadership employees
work aimlessly and it is not beneficial for organisation. Correspondingly, Management is a
process of organising, controlling, planning, directing, staffing of available resources of
company in a managed way(Abbas, and et. al. 2020). This process leads all resources such as
human resources, information, technological resources, financial resources for accomplishment
of organisation's objectives. Effective management can be very helpful in success and growth of
company. Resource are valuable and some resources are limited so efficient use of these
resources is only possible by better management of these resources.
Amazon is a multinational technology company, which was founded by Jeff Bezos in his garage
in Bellevue, Washington on July 5, 1994. Founder started it as an online books selling but
gradually it started selling so many items such as software, electronic items, furniture, jewellery,
food etc. Company is growing bit by bit and currently it is one of most valuable companies of
USA, firm has it's name in big five companies of country. Company's headquarter is situated in
Seattle, Washington Founder choose this location for headquarters because Microsoft is situated
there. According to revenue of company Amazon is largest internet company in the word. In this
essay reasoning is given on management and leadership along with important performance
metrics of an organisation industry as well as leadership and management performance in an
organisation is delineated in context of Amazon UK.
Analytic thinking and comparison of leadership and management
Leadership is an act of leading people or group of people towards attainment of common
goals. In a company leadership is very necessary to lead and motivate subordinates for achieving
predetermined goals or objectives. A good leader can be role model for other employees and it
affects their individual performance as well(Ayeleke, and et. al. 2018.). In amazon UK
pragmatist leadership style is followed, pragmatist style is a style of leadership in which leaders
set a very high standards and focus on achieving them with help of employees and leaders.
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