Leadership and Management: A Comprehensive Analysis

Leadership and Management
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Table of Contents
1-What is involved in being a successful leader?............................................................................3
2-Can good leadership is developed, and if so, how?......................................................................8
3. What distinguishes leadership from management?....................................................................11
4. What have you learnt about leadership from your own experiences, on this course and
elsewhere?......................................................................................................................................15
References......................................................................................................................................17
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1-What is involved in being a successful leader?
The successful leaders include the various qualities and abilities within them. There are some
traits or style of leadership helps in understanding it well. Some of those are well discussed
below-
Individual: includes some traits, styles or skills which are well explained below.
Traits include Big Five personality traits, Stogdill’s traits or Great Man Theory which are
explained as follows-
Big Five personality
The Big Five personality traits are also known as five-factor model (FFM) which is taxonomy for
the character trait. It is mainly characterised by the acronyms OCEAN or CANOE. It also
includes below points.
Conscientiousness Openness to the
experience
Agreeableness Extraversion Neuroticism
It includes the
tendency of
performing in an
appropriate manner. It
includes the aim of
accomplishments,
self-dependence,
acting dutifully,
showing discipline
and etc.
It encompasses
magnitudes,
surfaces,
imaginative
counting,
concentrating on
the inner voice or
approach,
diversity, being
knowledgeable,
artistic
The agreeableness
includes a
propensity to
obliging other or
sympathetic
instead of
suspicious &
antagonistic in
another way.
It comprises of
necessity, positive
emotions,
assertiveness &
sociability, to
pursue inspiration
in the
associations.
In this stage
depression,
anxiety,
vulnerability or
anger gets
include in.
Effortless,
unnecessary
emotions get to
include in
neuroticism.
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compassion and
etc.
It gets utilised to
highlight the
various traits of
people in regards
to stay open to
some situations.
Sometimes
mental pressure
also takes place
under it.
Great Man Theory
It is the notion of the 19th century according to which history can get clarified by the influence of
great men or heroes. It also includes various powerful individuals who carry the personal
intelligence, wisdom, political skills
Stogdill’s Traits
This theory includes the understanding of trait variables or situational to control the different
situations. It amazingly includes the substitute, individual alterations or reliable leaders by the
diversity of groups or administrative situations. It was developed in 1974 (Montejo, 2018).
Skills:
Katz's Three Skills-Based Models
This theory of leadership gets considered as one of the most important theories which have been
developed by Robert Katz in 1955. He recognised various technical related abilities which are
related to the pitch, some of the conceptual or public abilities which are related to setting the
thoughts and ideas as the main area, the abilities of human which are related to the interacting
with people and many more which are importantly required to maintain or develop by the
leaders. Katz's Three Skills-Based Model is the most important model of leadership which
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