MRE5003: Industrial techniques in maintenance management

Running head: LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT
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Leadership & Management
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LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT 2
Introduction
Management and leadership are interrelated as leadership is fundamental to any
effective management. The leadership behavior determines the type of environment that will
be able to develop an employee’s skills. The manager must have traits of a leader in order to
influence and drive the team into achieving their set targets and goals. A leader must develop
the strategies in which an organization has competitive advantage and building the company
upwards. The must have leadership qualities and traits. He or she must impose good business
morals for the employees to be able to deliver to the set organizational goals and targets
(Boin, Stern, & Sundelius, 2016).
Leadership and management concepts are both transposable in the description of the
performance and effectiveness of the employees in an organization. Management describes
the crafts and skills that a leader has and requires while leadership describes who the leader
is. Skills can be primarily developed and learned but leadership is cultivated within the
individual in his or her willingness to improve. Leadership requires development of self-
reflection for becoming a better manager. A situational approach towards leadership
development has various strengths. The leader can assume a new position and within a short
period of time the team is dynamically different. Lack of flexibility by a leader would be a
problem due to the ever changing dynamics of the team he or she is leading (Bolden, 2016).
ACTIVITY 4B
In an organization, changes which can be proposed for the improvement of the
process while utilizing structured change management. The changes begins with the
beginning of project work and recruiting the necessary support system that includes middle
level managers and frontline supervisors. The support system of the management are
necessary for advocating of this changes. The benefits to the employees also involve changes