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Concepts of Leadership and Management - Report

   

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LEADERSHIP ANDMANAGEMENT

Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3P1 Analysis of concepts of leadership and management............................................................3P2 Different leadership theories..................................................................................................5P3 Effectiveness of leadership in selection and training program at General Electric...............8P4 Contextualization of the selection and training program.....................................................11CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13REFERENCES........................................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTIONLeadership and management are key aspects of every organization. They should be implemented efficiently within the company to organize, direct, control activities and employees.Leadership is defined as the ability of a leader to set a vision for company as well as for employees also and effectively controlling and coordinating activities to achieve vision as soon as possible. Leader also resolves conflicts and problem which occur to company and employees. Management is ability of manager to efficiently oversee all activities of organization and manages employees proficiently. General Electric is a multinational American Corporation which was founded in 1892 with its headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts (Bolden, 2016). This company was founded by great scientist who is known as Thomas Edison and other founders are J.P Morgan, Edwin Houston etc. Different products are manufactured by this company and thoseare – aircraft engines, electrical and electronic equipment, oil and gas, financial and industrial products. This company deals in mainly sector also and those are aviation, health care, transportation, energy connection and lighting, power renewable energy, oil and gas etc. This assignment will mainly focus on leadership and management at General Electric Company and also describes various concepts of the same. Effectiveness of GE’S selection and leadership development program will also be mentioned in this project. Various leadership theories which are applied in the company will also be discussed. P1 Analysis of concepts of leadership and managementLeadership is a process of defining objectives and measures in influential manner to make others and organization more coordinating and cooperating. An effective leader is the one who have strong willpower and desire to change others and require efforts such as knowledge, skill, experience, etc. Though leadership is acquired via learning but some traits are needed to influence others such as values, beliefs and attitude (Lunenburg, 2011). These traits help in inspiring others to do well in certain things. Also, these things never come easily, as they require years of practice and experience. Good leaders always posses a learning attitude in order to improve them, time after time.Directors of General Electric tend to set up target for their employees in terms of product manufacturing with respect to company’s operation. This help in achieving goals and objectives

by the means of followers that true leaders have. Using this leadership strategy, revenue will be improved and new clients will get associate with company. This process is uncertain and brings change in organization.Now, considering managers which are again an important aspect in business are mainly responsible for getting things done by others (Nkomo, 2011). They provide their supervision in handling respective job roles of each and every employee. Sometimes managers act on behalf of leaders. Their job is to set objectives for organization, addresses activities to director and shareholders and maintains corporate values while dealing business customers. They make people act for accomplishing desired goals and objectives with the help of resources that are available to them. Being manager of one of the departments in General Electric will focus upon achieving target which are put up by leaders and manage staff to get fitted into plan and acquiring it. As permanagement hierarchy, responsibilities and role of manager varies in the company. Management do contain leadership as one of its functions. Those functions are planning, organizing, staffing, leading or directing and control. Both roles, manager and leader, requires human interaction and effective communication. For example, board of General Electric include more leadership tasks such creating vision and plans for company whereas management at every department is responsible for determining tasks. Purpose of General Electric is to provide effective products and services to its people such as defense electronics, communications and engineering. Company is well known for delivering effective, efficient and affordable electronics goods to its consumers. Objective of company is to provide full range of specialized electronic items that can be used in health and medical sector, education sector, defense sector and many more (Avolio and Yammarino, 2013). To achieve these objectives it is important to have effective management and leadership skills that can help to overcome problematic situations and will deliver excellent services to customers.Skills required for such purpose are problem solving and decision making, delegation, communication, planning and management. These basic skills are responsible for to construct more advance practices for management and leadership. The only time problem arises is due to lack of basic knowledge a

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