Developing Leadership and Management Skills

DEVELOPING
LEADERSHIP AND
MANAGEMENT SKILLS

Table of Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.............................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Analysis and comparison of leadership and management......................................................3
Organisational leadership and management performance......................................................6
Performance KPIs...................................................................................................................8
Comparison of organisations..................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
Appendice......................................................................................................................................11

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The file discusses about critical analysis of the leadership and management in organisations. It
does a theoretical framework with its implications and assesses the impact through performance
metrics in an organisation.
INTRODUCTION
The file is about critical analysis of leadership and management in an organisation. Leadership is
the visionary guidance of someone who can inspire the employees and direct them to achieve a
common goal within a team, their role is very elaborated in the sense that they guide the
employees both in personal as well as professional terms. Management is the form of leadership
within an organisation who give directions to a team to achieve the targets set by the team and
deploy people who would be the right fit to achieve the results and get the work done in the
organisation. The critical analysis will consider both good as well as the bad points in the
leadership and management techniques being followed by the organisation. The theoretical
analysis has been provided and the implications on the organisation are provided. Various
theories like scientific management theory of Fredrick and theory of Bass and Burns have been
discussed. The theories suggest how the leadership follows a certain approach which moulds the
working environment as well as the subordinates of the organisation. Various key performance
indicators have been provided of the organisation which show the effects of leadership and
management in the organisation. The organisation taken here is google for studying critical
analysis of the leadership and management. Google is an American MNC that specialises in
Internet related services and products, which includes online advertising, search engine, cloud
computing and other software and hardware.

Analysis and comparison of leadership and management
Leadership and management can be compared with each other using the theories given by
Fredrick Taylor.
The theory focuses on having more of efficient workers. It being also called the classical
management which emphasises efficiency (Willis, Clarke and O'Connor, 2017). The theory
reflects the sayings of Fredrick as employees should be rewarded for increase in productivity but
they should not be scolded for minor mistakes. The principal objective of the management is to
get the maximum prosperity for the employer or the organisation but it should also be containing
the maximum prosperity for every employee. The theory basically breaks down assignments into
subtasks, then delegates responsibilities and workers are trained, performance is monitored and
then work is allocated between the managers and employees. Fredrick Taylor has believed that
the primary function of managers is to plan and train. Taylor has recognised the efficiency can be
improved if there was a reduction in process at places where time taken can be reduced to
achieve results in less time (Hallinger and Kovačević, 2021). The management has to identify the
areas where the process can be made simple. Taylor laid stress on the fact that every individual
should be assessed for skills and deployed the job accordingly. The principles being given by
Taylor are as follows:
a) Each task has to be looked at scientifically to determine the best way to perform the job.
b) Hiring the workers and delegating them tasks according to skills and providing them training
to work at increased rate of efficiency.
c) Worker performance needs to be monitored and instructions to be provided when they require.
d) The work has to be divided between management and labour in a way that management can
do the planning and training part, and workers execute the work efficiently.
Implication of the theory
Google makes use of the theory in a way which follows the scientific way proposed by the
theory. Executives with right talent are hired for google. People who get recruited in the
company are the ones who have the possession of relevant skills or are experienced in the same
type of work. After the hiring is done, the deployment of the workers are done in a way that each
employee gets satisfaction for having received their field of interest and are also provided an
environment where they can freely converse with each other thus company having a
decentralised approach which increases efficiency and quick solution of any grievances (Willis,