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Critically analyse the leadership selection and development program at General Electric
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................11 The difference between the concepts of leadership and management.....................................12 Analysis of Behavioral Theories of leadership........................................................................33 Analyse the effectiveness of the leadership selection and training program at GeneralElectric........................................................................................................................................64 Contextualise the selection and training program within the previous theoreticaldiscussion.800.............................................................................................................................8CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11
INTRODUCTIONLeadership plays an important role in the organisations where various decision of a leaderwill help to make an effective development and growth. Development is based on theimplementations of programme for the employees and company for the rapid production andachieve the firm mission and vision. The report on critically analyse the leadership selection anddevelopment program at general electric. It is an American multinational conglomerateincorporated in New York. The firm operates in different segments which includes aviations,recent digital, energy connections, global research, health care, lightning, oil and gas, power andautomotive. The New GE Chief Executive officer John Flannery is making leadership changesby removing the recent CFO these modifications is signal that GE trying to change strategic wayto plan for the future development in company. The main products GE deals in Aircraft enginesand electric distribution. Further the report will talk about the various difference between theconcept of leadership and management. The leadership theory which shows GE competent andeffectiveness of the leadership selection and training programme in the organisations.1 The difference between the concepts of leadership and management.The effective leader are made not born, if the desire and will power in the individual itbecomes leader. The good leader will develop through the never ending procedure of selflearning. Leadership is a quality of convincing individual to achieve the firm goals andobjective with the passionately as well enthusiastically. It is not similar as management.Management is an art and science to management various task in effective and efficient manner.The aim of the management is to accomplish the work in optimum manner. In each and everyarea it required the better management which can be include education, hospitality, sports andcorporates. The major difference between leadership and management, is management is forformal and well manager team only. On the other hand leadership is for both formal and informalteams. The various difference between leadership and Management can be describe such asfollows:Basis for ComparisonLeadership ManagementMeaning Leadership is a particular skillof leading people.Management is an art andscience of accomplish andorganised the different taskwith systematic way.1
BasisThe main basis of leadership isthorough trust building amongthe team member.The basis of management is tocontrol the people and givedirection for various work.Emphasis onThe leadership emphasis onthe inspiring people.The management emphasis onthe managing differentactivities of the organizations.PowerThe main power of aleadership is to influence thepeople.The management power is ruleon the employees or group.Focus onThe leadership will focus onencouraging changes in theorganization(Bulkeley andTuts, 2013).The Management focus onbringing stability in the firm.Strategy Leadership will apply theproactive strategy in every taskManagement will applyreactive strategy in each andevery work.Formulationleadership formulates aPrinciple and guidelines foreffective development in thefirm.Management formulatesvarious policies and procedureto manage organisations andbuild a better system.PerspectiveLeadership need betterprovidence and long termperspective.Management has small rangeof perspective for theorganisations.Leadership is the skill of leading a team of individual and encourage them into an effectivedirection known as leadership. It is an interpersonal procedure which will help to convincepeople to achieve set objective and goals in better way. Leadership is not a lesson which requiredto taught, but an attribute which is own by various individual only. A leader is someone whohave huge followers due to their encouraging and inspiration. Various instance of a leader whichcontribute for their nation and inspire the world such as Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandelaetc. Leadership is an action of guiding and directing individual to work together in achieving theobjectives. It need a better vision of thought across the areas. 2
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