Difference between Leadership and Management

LEADERSHIP AND
MANAGEMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................2
MAIN BODY.............................................................................................................................2
Presenting the difference between leadership and management............................................2
Leadership and management application in real organization...............................................5
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Leadership plays an important role in the success of the company and it is act of
guiding of team or individual in order to attain the certain goals through motivation. On the
other side, management is a set of principles which is related to the functions of planning,
organizing and controlling the resources in effective manner. In the same way, current study
will help to understand the concepts of leadership and management by using range of theories
and models. In addition to this, the study is also provide a differences between leadership and
management by supporting the models and then by using a company, study will demonstrate
how the leadership and management may happen in a real organization.
MAIN BODY
Presenting the difference between leadership and management
Leadership is the process of a social influence that assist to maximize the efforts of
others in order to attain the specific goal. Through effective leadership skills, company
motivate the employees in order to increase the performance of an employees which in turn
generate the human relations. Thus, it is consider an important function of management that
assist to maximize efficiency and also attain the goals (Diamond and Spillane, 2016). There
are different theories used by leaders in order to take a business at further level of success.
Some of them are as mention below:
Contingency theory: As per this theory, there is no best leadership style is best in all
situation and also stated that great leaders are able to assess the needs of their followers and
then adjust their behaviors accordingly. That is why, it is analyzed that the success depends
upon number of variables which includes leadership style and quality of the followers.
Hence,a best leader have a trait along with an ability toincrease the followers in order to
make better decision.
Situational leadership theory: This is another theory which stated that leaders
change their style as per the situation and this in turn stated that the theory does not consider
anyone’s leadership style in order to become more better than others. In an organization there
are different situation and that is why, it is depend upon the leaders how they manage the
work as per adopting the best leadership style (Hassi, 2019). That is why, this theory is
applied by most of the leaders of top company in order to stay ahead in the competition.