Leadership And Management Skills
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Leadership And Management Skills
Added on 2020-10-22
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LEADERSHIP ANDMANAGEMENT
Table of Contents.....................................................................................................................................................2INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3What is involved in being a successful leader.............................................................................3Traits, Skills and styles of a good leader.....................................................................................3Qualities of a successful leader....................................................................................................4Can leadership be developed and if so how?...............................................................................5Distinguishing between leadership and management..................................................................8Leanings about leadership from own experiences ....................................................................11CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15
INTRODUCTIONLeadership is the skill of influencing the behaviours of group of people for working in aparticular and desired direction to accomplish the target goals and objectives. Management is aprocess of managing group of individuals and this process includes various elements such asplanning, organising, directing, monitoring and controlling the activities of the differentindividuals. A leader and a manager is most of the time uses as synonyms but they are verydifferent right from their very raw definition. The perspectives of both manager and leader arevery different from each other(Bolden, 2016). The present report will cover the basics ofleadership and management, what are the factors that makes an effective leader, differencesbetween leadership and management and insights of leadership through self experiences.What is involved in being a successful leaderLeadership and management is an essential part of the organisation and there issignificant difference between management and leadership however skills of both is usedcollectively and both are important for a successful and profitable organisation. Leadershipinfluence individuals or team toward the achievement of organisational objective. Managementcontrol and manage tactical aspects of day to day organisational function. Leadership is a notionof sharing organisation's vision and management is more likely to the implementation of thatvision(Bolman and Deal, 2017). Traits, Skills and styles of a good leaderTraitsCharacteristic of a successful leader can be understand by following theories:Stogdill's trait theoryStogdill identify the following trait and characteristic to leader:Leader should have characteristic of adaptability to situations and work according to thesituation in the organisation.Leader should tend to be higher in various things such as; self-confidence, extroversion.Leader should being honest, forward looking, enthusiastic motivator, inspiring, andcomponent.Leadership exists only with followers, if there are no followers in the organisation, thereis no leadership and no leader.
A leader have ability to influence the attitude, behaviour and beliefs of his subordinatestowards the task(Cox, 2016).SkillsSills of leadership can be understand by Skill-Based Leadership theory that was emergedby Robert Katz in 1955 that encapsulate what makes a good leader. Skill-Based Leadershiptheory state that good leader have a set of skills that they have developed over time.Katz identified main skills that need to develop by an individual to being a good leader;such as; human skills to effectively communicate and being able to work with people, conceptualskills to set vision and work with broad concept and ideas, technical skills to being proficient inspecific activity or type of work that need to develop to being a good leader. According to thetheory higher level leader should have conceptual skill, Problem-solving skills, Social judgementskills.StylesStyle of a good leader can be understand by Lewin's leadership styles that is divided inThree major style:Autocratic- According to this style leader take decision without consulting with others.This style of leadership suited best where there no need for input on the decision and where themotivation of employee would not be affected whether they are involved or not in the decisionmaking.Democratic- In this style leader should involved other in decision making process, but thefinal decision made by the leader only. Carlos Ghosn, chairman and CEO of Renault believedthat positive and negative change in organisational culture should not be forced by the topmanagement but it should come from the bottom level. He believes in empowering employees.Laissez-faire- This style is to minimize the leader's involvement in decision makingprocess. The leader give responsibilities of decision making to the employee or subordinates.Qualities of a successful leaderA good leader should able to guide and direct its subordinates as well as coach them ineffective manner for a better work performance.Leader should have great communication skills to communicate with its followers andeffectively influence them. Also, leader should ave a deep understanding of humanbehaviour, wants or needs, emotions, etc. and able to deal with people.
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