Leadership and Management: A Discussion on Literature, Theories, and Development Programs

Organisations:
Leadership and
Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................3
DISCUSSION ABOUT LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT LITERATURE AND
THEORIES................................................................................................................................3
Similarities between leadership and management.................................................................4
Differences between leadership and management.................................................................4
Leadership theories................................................................................................................5
EVALUATION OF LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM.......................................8
Importance of leadership........................................................................................................8
Importance of training and development...............................................................................9
The Mary Seacole programme...............................................................................................9
Structure of programme.......................................................................................................10
Benefits of program..............................................................................................................11
CONCLUSION........................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES.........................................................................................................................14
Books and journals...............................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Leadership is considered as a process through which the leader motivates the attitude
of individual person towards goal. They provide direction to its staff to execute their work in
an effective manner. In addition to this leadership is the capability to lead the subordinate to
perform the different activity and function of business organization in an effective manner.
Management focuses on planning, organizing staffing, directing as well as controlling the
behavior of an individual person within business organization. Leadership is regarding
motivate people towards vision of your organization and perform their task in order to
accomplish them. On the other hand the management is considered as administrating daily
activity and function In addition to this there is various model of leadership which is used for
achieving outcomes in order to accomplish goal of organization. It includes various types of
theory such as trait theory, contingency theory as well as power and influence theory which is
mentioned in this report. All the theories as well as concept related to leadership which is
used for assessing the requirement of the business organization during the period of time.
Furthermore, there are variety of skill related to soft as well as hard skill of leader will
determined as well as the different quality as well skill is needed to operate the business
organization in an effective manner. Apart from this there are various elements that
encourage this management structure also given in this report.
DISCUSSION ABOUT LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT LITERATURE AND
THEORIES
Leadership: leadership can be defined as ability of an individual where he actively or
method li participate in different activity of leading a group of people towards the goals and
objectives of an organisation where they can achieve the desired results in an specific time by
the self-development as well as development of individual. Leadership is both a research area
and a particular skill which encompasses on the inability of an individual within the
organisation where it can guide The Other individual’s teams and entire organisation in the
direction of goals and objective (Northouse, 2018). There are various kind of leadership
theories within the organisation which are am on different functions related to trade situation
interaction function behaviour power vision and values which are directly related to an
individual performance.
Management: it can be defined as and coordination and organisation of different
activities by an individual within an organisation where a business process is established to

achieve different versions missions and objective of the organisation by combining all the
efforts of each individuals and maintaining a proper watch on different functions.
Management is administration of the organisation whether it is a business non-profit
organisation government body or any other institute. Management include different activities
setting a strategy where organisation can collaborate the different efforts of an individuals
and reduce the wastage of resources (Inkinen, 2016).
Similarities between leadership and management
 Both leadership and management and title of working with the people and are
surrounded by their peoples within the organisation for smooth working (Hamlin and
Patel, 2017).
 Management and leadership both are created on a same foundation of organisation
and are the respective ideal within the organisation for their functional structures.
 There is one more similarity between management and leadership that both of the
function has the direct influence on the work structure and environment within the
organisation because of their direct involvement within both of the function (Thorpe,
2016).
 Both focuses on particular direction of goal achievement as the main motive behind
both leadership and management is to achieve the goals and objectives of the
organisation by combining the resources and managing the work in an efficient
manner.
Differences between leadership and management
There are various differences between leadership and management within an
organisation which are directly related to their functioning and focusing. Management in an
organisation is related to implement of tactic collections within the organisation where the
leadership is aim of creating new vision and aims toward the organisations success.
There are various differences between both of the functions as management is
concerned with detailed budgeting of every plan where the leadership concentrate on
establishing organisational financial targets which can be achieved within a specific time
(Bush and Glover, 2016).
Furthermore, management always focus on measuring and reporting the performance
within the organisation to achieve the standards and leadership always focus on deciding
what needs and measures to be adopted for reporting and increasing the performance of