Leadership and Management Development Program of an Organisation
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1Defining and discussing the difference between the concept of leadership and management....1Analyse leadership theory............................................................................................................3Analyse of management development program of an organisation.............................................6CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
INTRODUCTIONLeadership and management are an essential part of effective management that playsvarious functions and roles within an organisation. The main aim of playing roles by leaders andmanagers is to achieve pre determined goals of an organisation. This essay will show and coverabout the concept off leadership and management in an organisation. There is a differencebetween leadership and management but both plays functions for the main common goal is totake competitive advantages and increase productivity of an organisation. This essay will alsoshow about the importance of leadership theories as there are various theories liketransformational, contingency, behavioural and trait. Transformational leadership theory is thebest theory but there are some limitations in this theory as well. Further this essay will showabout management development programs which is based on Tesco company. Tesco is a Britishmultinational groceries retailer whose headquarter is in the Welwyn garden city, UK. It operatesin 6,569 shops with having around 460,000 employees. Management development programmesis a process of training that focuses on leadership with the main aim of developing employeesand leadership style.1
Defining and discussing the difference between the concept of leadership and managementSuccessful leadership have strong leaders and managers that work with the aim todevelop, support and motivate the workforce longevity within a company (Northouse, 2018).Leadership is a notion of communicating vision of an organisation on the other handmanagement carries out responsibilities that has written and decided by the industries.Furthermore, it has been found that leader in the industry inspire other and initiate any change inthe organisation, while managers are capable to cope with various challenges that may occur inthe outcome of change. The both the concept have some similarities and some differences.Nevertheless, there are certain differences between management and leadership;Leadership defined as a process of influencing a group within the industry in order toachieve the objective or goal. As per the definition, it has been stated by (Rosenbach, 2018)performance of organisation and individual at workplace is influenced by the leadership as it is atwo-way process. In contrast management is “Getting task done through the efforts of otherpeople”. (Lussier and Achua, 2015) mentioned that manager is an individual who perform thefunction of management by efficiently and effectively utilising available resources to reachingdesired objectives.Leadership is a concept of leading people through motivating them. Management is theconcept of managing all the resources, activities and people in the industry. (Porter and Kramer,2019) stated that, in leadership, guidelines and principles are established, whereas, in the contextof management, procedure and policy are implemented. Similarly (Carleton, Barling andTrivisonno, 2018) present the difference between both concept as leadership is proactiveconversely, management is reactive in nature.The focus of leadership is on the long term goals because the decisions made by leadercan affect the business relationship in future as well as the whole industry. Leader have followersas the main aim of leaders is to lead others. It means setting up new goals that help in improvingorganisational performance. Leaders do not only motivate employees but also focus onimproving themselves because they know the importance of self motivation and positive attitude.With the help of positive attitude, they can easily make all the employees able to be selfdependant and think critically. On the other hand, management generally based on the short-termgoals that is because of manager in the organisation have to take decision on the daily basis andon everyday activities. Manager have subordinates as the main aim is to manage the tasks.
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