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Leadership and Management

Contents
Concepts of leadership and management................................................................................ 2
Difference between leadership and management.......................................................................3
Different approaches for developing leaders and managers..........................................................4
L&D function for supporting leadership and management development..........................................6
Leadership and management development programs.................................................................7
The success of development programs...................................................................................8
Reference.................................................................................................................... 10

Concepts of leadership and management
Leadership and management are vital for improving the performance of the organization.
Leadership is a process that leaders follow for directing, guiding and influencing the behavior of
the other and work for accomplishing the set goals of the organization. Leadership is an ability
that helps managers to influence the employees to perform the assigned task effectively. Leaders
play the role of inspiring and motivating others. Leadership is a concept which helps in
influencing others to accomplish the objectives and direct the employee to perform task for
achieving the common goals.
Management is a process that helps the organization in performing the activities. It includes the
process of planning organizing, staffing, directing and controlling. Management requires the art
for getting things done by others. In order to manage the activities, it requires forecasting and
planning, organizing, coordinating and controlling. In trait theory, it is believed that people are
born with the qualities for playing the role of leadership (Walumbwa, et al., 2008). The qualities
like intelligence, sense of responsibility, creativity, and values. In leadership, the focus must
include mental, physical and social characteristics for understanding the people. Leadership
skills require honesty, competent, forward-looking, inspiring, and intelligent and broad-minded.
Transformational leadership is the process that includes the leaders to interact with the followers
and inspire others (Voci and Young, 2001). With the help of leadership style and abilities of
leader, the people and organization can be transformed easily as they will be able to convey the
vision to employees and can guide the transformation. The various factors which are considered
for transformational leadership are influential, motivating, inspiring and psychological
transformation.
Leadership includes the process for channelizing the energy of employees or teams for achieving
the goals, objectives, and vision of the organization. In transactional leadership theory, the
emphasis is on the desired outcome and results. The leaders adopted the strategy for motivating
the followers in a way of reward system as they adopt the strategy of rewarding the employees
who perform and punish the employees who do not perform the work properly. Leadership in
business requires competence, courage, clarity, coaching, and character for leading the group
effectively. management includes the process, effectiveness, and efficiency for achieving the
goals and objectives in the organization. process includes the functions and activities which are

required to be performed as it includes the function of planning, organizing, staffing, directing
and controlling (Taylor and Ladkin, 2009). Effectiveness is to complete the given task, achieving
the objectives and finishing the activities. Efficiency in management is to complete the task
incorrect way and minimizing the cost. The efficient use of resources helps in reducing the cost
and leads to generate more profits.
Difference between leadership and management
Leadership and management are different forms of each other but both are involved in achieving
the objective of the organization. Leadership includes the influencing power to motivate and
inspire others to perform the activities effectively. it includes the potential for influencing the
employee's Managers must include the leader's quality and adopt the strategies for building and
sustaining for the competitive advantages. Every organization requires leadership and
management for the organization's efficiency. Leaders and managers at the workplace must
motivate the employees to perform the tasks. The difference in managers and leaders in the
establishment of vision as in management the vision of managers is to plan and budget the task,
they develop the various steps and set the timeline of the task which is to be done by the team
and they do not involve the team while taking the decision and display the impersonal attitude
regarding the goals and vision of the organization. they only focus on increasing the profits and
do not consider the employee's satisfaction. In leadership, the vision of leaders is to set the
direction of the plan and develop the strategic vision for the team (Boehm and Turner, 2005).
They are responsible for developing the strategic plan for achieving the vision of the company.
They show the attitude of being very passionate about achieving the goals and vision for the
team. For human development and networking in management, the organizing and staffing are
done by the managers and they are responsible for maintaining the structure of the organization.
in management, the responsibilities and responsibilities are delegated along with the work to
subordinates. The implementation of vision is done by the managers and they inaugurate the
policies and procedures for implementing the effective vision of the company. Managers do not
consider the employee's ideas and opinions and also show low emotions towards the employees.
In leadership, it is necessary to align the activities for leaders. Leaders communicate vision,