Leadership and Management in the 21st Century: Proposals for Organizational Performance

Leadership and
Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Historical development of leadership.....................................................................................1
Examine and comparison of leadership and management on the basis of 21st century..........2
Evaluate the leadership and management with the help of theories.......................................3
Key performance metrics of organizational sector/market/industry......................................4
Organizational leadership and management performance.....................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
From the past times, it has been analysed that the leadership and management skills are
important for the company as if they want to accomplish their goals on the effective basis.
Management is not only about managing the work or implementing the operations as it
undertakes all the suitable things like directing, controlling or planning about workers and their
task in terms of smoothing functioning. In the uncertain times, it is important that the manager
need to possess the advanced leadership skills by which they can handle the condition in broader
manner (Torrance, 2018). They also want effective leadership skill or quality by which they can
influence the employee to work and also achieve competitive advantage. The term leadership and
management is different but both work for the improvement of particular ability or skills from
which leadership is the important part of management.
Further, if an individual has leadership skills but does not own the management skills then they
are functioning well. For this, managers can also achieve high results if they do not have such
leadership skills too. Along with this, the company does not get succeed due to the shortage of
leadership and management as their managers does not able to response about the uncertain
factors. For this report, company is opted in terms of seeing that the managers have to build their
management leadership and management skills and so these ability and skills help them in terms
of motivating or supporting their workforce and enhance the overall performance (Doyle and
Brady, 2018). For this report, Sainsbury’s is considered which is the biggest retailer of groceries
in 1922 but in 1995 Tesco takeover Sainsbury’s to become the market leader. The company deals
in wide variety of products and services so it is very essential for them to possess the leadership
and management skills.
MAIN BODY
Historical development of leadership
A leader may be known as a leader because of the formal relation who leads to provide the
possession of the managerial ranking within the organisation. For this, a leader can be casual or
informal as the person who take steps an also provide the effective guidance from the group of
people who has been granted the power of decision making (Netland, Powell and Hines, 2019).
There are various varieties of King Arthur’s story as it is one of the most suitable folklore stories
from the England. For this, this most of the edition tell that how Arthur became king, when the
1

Lady of Lake gave him a sword named Excalibur. He was chosen as the same who he possessed
as the certain by the divine right as he became the king of Britain.
Furthermore, back in 1950’s the armed forces of US become more concerned regarding the
leadership qualities among the non-commissioned officers. The research was carried out in non-
commissioned officers’ schools at the Fort Hood in California. Along with this, the programme
came to the attending of Boy Scouts of America by the associate of national Scouting committee.
Through this, the various conferences, it was notice that there were fields for the effective
investigation service to proceed the close look at the white Stag program in terms of determining
the value of this approach to adult and boy leader growth.
Examine and comparison of leadership and management on the basis of 21st century
Basis Leadership Management
Definition Leadership is considered as the
quality which a person tends to
carry by which they can
encourage other individual to
perform their tasks in an
impressive manner.
Management is the procedure
of planning, organising,
controlling and guiding the
unit of people by which the
objectives can be achieved.
Orientation Leaders are group oriented. Managers are task oriented.
Focus group They lead people by effective
conduct or method.
There main motive is that
how they can manage their
work or activity in an
effective way.
Outcomes With the help of leadership,
they make efforts to achieve
suitable goals and objectives.
Here, management is all
about acquiring the best
outcome.
Organisation Here, the leaders make effort
for other individuals to follow
them.
Managers have their own
subordinates to whom they
manage or provide guidance.
Powers They lead to develop quality
and power among them.
Manager tends to practice
their powers over the lower
2