Leadership and Management Literature/Theories

Literature review and
Essay

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK...............................................................................................................................................1
1) Leadership and management literature/theories..........................................................................1
Concept of management and leadership.................................................................................1
Similarities between leadership and management..................................................................2
Difference between management and leadership...................................................................2
Contingency Theory...............................................................................................................3
Transformational Leadership..................................................................................................6
2) Leadership development programme..........................................................................................8
Leadership training and development programme.................................................................8
Importance of Leadership in training and development.........................................................8
Analysing the leadership training and development programme...........................................9
Identify and evaluate the benefits of this leadership programme for both the organisation and
individual..............................................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Leadership is basically an art and internal ability of an individual or group that makes it
able and create capability of influencing, motivating and guiding followers and other
subordinates. On the other hand, management is defined as a process that includes effective
administration and control of all activities and affairs of an organisation thus, main aim of
management or managers is to set a coordination and effective monitoring and control on all
activities and individuals in order to achieve organisational goals in an effective manner (Bush,
Bell and Middlewood, 2019). The academic theories based on motivation, beliefs, trust,
leadership, persuasion, decision making, etc creates a positive effect on organisation when they
develop their leadership and development programmes through facilitating development of better
skills and knowledge that is required by a manager and leaders to perform their job roles more
effectively and in a better way.
In order to develop better understanding about concept and theories of leadership and
management this essay is based on a Care UK which is a British company providing health and
social care facilities for people and also provides support services for patients. Further, this essay
is based on evaluation and description of concepts of leadership and management together with
identifying similarities and difference between them. Further a description about Contingency
and Transformational leadership style is also there. Apart from this, an evaluation of leadership
and development programme is also consists in this easy that includes the importance of
leadership training and development for an organisation together with its benefits form point of
view of both individual and organisation.
TASK
1) Leadership and management literature/theories
Concept of management and leadership
According to the view point of Susan Ward, 2020, leadership can be defined as an art that
includes and focused on motivating an individual or group people to act and perform various task
in an efficient manner to achieve the common goal and set targets. The concept of leadership
includes the process of making correct and sound decisions together with creating and
articulating clear vision and setting achievable goals and providing followers with needed
assistance, motivation and guidance to achieve that goals in more effective manner (Golensky
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and Hager, 2020). Management is also defined as a set of principles that is related with planning,
organising, directing and controlling in order to direct efficient and effective utilization of
resources in pursuit of achievement of goals.
Similarities between leadership and management
On the basis of evaluation of concept of management and leadership following similarities
between management and leadership are identified:
 Both management and leadership works with the people and staff of organisation for
overall success and better performance of organisation.
 Both managers and leaders plays crucial role in managing and creating a functional
structure at organisation (Podsakoff and Podsakoff, 2019).
 The ultimate goal and objective of management as well as leadership is to ensure
enhancement in skills and productivity of employees in order to accomplish and achieve
the desired goals and objective on time.
 Further, both management and leadership are concerned with optimum utilisation of
resources to ensure cost effectiveness of operations to enhance overall profitability of
organisation.
Difference between management and leadership
Management and leadership are two crucial parts of an organisation that work together to
ensure betterment of an organisation but still there are some difference between these two
concepts (Hassi, 2019). A description about the difference between management and leadership
is provided below in form of a table:
Basis Management Leadership
Vision The main vision of management
includes effective planning and
budget formulation together with
developing process and setting
timelines for all departments and staff
of the organisation.
The main focus and vision of
leadership is to provide strategic
direction to employees and also
refines and communicate the set
vision with subordinates.
Role and
responsibility
Management is responsible for
delegating responsibility among
employees together with proper
Leadership is responsible to align
all the employees together with
ensuring effective communication
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