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Concept of Leadership and Management : Essay

   

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LITERATUREREVIEW and ESSAY

TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1LITERATURE REVIEW................................................................................................................1Discussing the difference between the concept of leadership and management....................1Analysing two leadership theories..........................................................................................3Analysing the effectiveness of leadership selection and training program at General Electric..6Contextualise selection and training program at General Electric.........................................7CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTIONLeadership could be defined to as that activity of any organisation that is leading andforming part of company through the various traits and characteristics of a particular individual.Leadership is more than managing people within that company as it includes motivating andshowing them the correct path so that they could achieve the target not just that of company buttheir own individual goals as well. So in this current literature review we would be includingfindings and theories of various authors on about concept of leadership within the context ofGeneral Electric. This is an American multinational conglomerate which means that many typesof business which are engaged into various products are been coming under one particularumbrella of corporate group. So General Electric is having many business like that of finance,power, renewable energy, digital, additive manufacturing, oil and gas, lighting, transportation,healthcare and venture.LITERATURE REVIEWDiscussing the difference between the concept of leadership and management.As per the Mackenzie, Golembiewski and Rahim, (2018) leadership should be that partwhich is making the people of certain organisation to work in most effective manner not just toattain the goal of firm but to make them learn about certain things. This process would beincluded into both research and practical skills area so that individual ability of organisationparticularly a person is raised. It is said in the old saying of leadership that great leaders of worldor that of particular area are born and not made as this is regarded to as inherent skills orbehaviour of person. This could also be looked up into the form of social influence of individualwhich a person would be having so that he could help others in accomplishing some kind ofcommon task. The main essence of this leadership is been derived from the combination ofseveral factors like that of communication, function, behaviour, intelligence and vision of thatleader who is been able to lead and guide people or his followers.Whereas Shao, (2018) defines management as the other and somewhat different processor theory from that of leadership. As both of them are many a time used as the synonyms of eachother but they both are having differentiated meaning and approach towards the organisation.Like management only include administration of the people of organisation which would alsocomprising activities which are called to as setting up of strategies and planning of that1

organisation. As General Electric is having many types of different activities and products andabout 3 million employees so it is necessary that they are been motivated and working very hardto attain the goal of company together. Management could be defined to as that discipline so thatall different types of things could be managed by one or two persons in the best possible mannerwhile leadership is only one single element of management which is associated with influencingquality of people so that they could work in an efficient manner.Mone and London, (2018) said that leadership would be mainly based on the trust as theyneed to influence people and management would be on control as they need to help them towork. All the people within the company like that of General Electric need to be inspired andthen manage their activities so that their work could be completed on due time period.Leadership could not be taught in any form to any person rather they are having the in born talentof influencing and inspiring their followers in correct manner. They all work as a team to achievethe target of group, individual and whole organisation. This is not only based on completion ofthe activities and at tainting targets but they are also categorised as defeating all othercompetitive firms in market in terms of products and price and then becoming the market leader.Whereas Kuhnert, (2018) included that management could be taken as to all techniques whichare be applied by one particular man in order to manage all other men into one firm. Not onlypeoples are managed within its concept but this would also be involving all 5M of managementstating money, machine, men, material and methods.Leadership is having no particular set out methods or techniques to deal with people astheir work is to influence them so that others could be working in their best possible way out.While on the other hand management is having set rules of its procedures which would beincluding like that of planning, organising, staffing, controlling and leading or directing peopleor other 5M of management. Politis and Politis, (2018) viewed that both these used to go hand inhand so that both of them should be used and applied along with each other which would beenabling the organisation and each employee of it to gain their own self target like that ofearning money and that of organisation which could be like that of becoming targets in shortspan of time. Management would be having many functions which are including like of planningand staffing of all resources so that all things are going all together in order to gain full successthis would be leading to achieving of targets. While leadership would be one of the function of2

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