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Leadership and Management in Organisations: Leadership And Management

   

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Organisations: Leadership AndManagement

Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3The concepts of Management and Leadership and Differences between the two ................3Discuss and analysis of transformational theory....................................................................6Analyse a management development program of Waitrose.................................................10CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................15REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................16

INTRODUCTIONLeadership and management are two essential part of an organisation without which theycan not survive in the competitive market. Leadership is an ability or potential of a person toinfluence individual or group of people to walk towards the path of success. According toChester Bernard, it is an ability of a superior person to influence behaviour of group of people toachieve purpose of existence. According to Harold Koontz, management it is an art of gettingwork done from different people in a proper manner so as to attain the maximum productivityand efficiency (Renz, 2016). Both the approaches are almost similar but have a slight differencewhich will be covered in the latter report. For this report, Waitrose has been taken forconsideration. It is one the biggest supermarket chain in the United Kingdom. transformationaltheory will be explained with the help of functional examples and work from various authorisedscholars. Management development program of a chosen organisation will be scrutinized so as tofind out the way through which overall efficiency of a company would enhanced to a certainlevel resulting in competitive advantage over others. MAIN BODYThe concepts of Management and Leadership and Differences between the two Management and Leadership practices are very important for an organisation as well asfor the growth of an individual in the company. Management is considered as the discipline ofconducting the management process for an organisation in a effective and efficient manner. It isalso referred as the skill of managing people and to make them work for a common objective in abest possible manner (Bolden, 2016).Leadership can be defined as the quality or skill of an individual which is used as a toolto influence people to make them follow a required direction to attain the common goal in afruitful manner (Goetsch and Davis, 2014). Leadership and management are not one of the samething but, leadership can be reasoned as one element of management.Leadership is defined as the ability that an individual to guide group of person in rightdirection so that they can achieve their target. An effective leader is one which align the personalgoal of an individual with organisational goal by directing the operations performed by itsfollower toward the accomplishment of their targets. It is considered as the skill which anindividual consists to influence the people and directs them to achieve the set objective in a

proper manner and will lead the organisation to be consistent in the market. To be good leadersthe process is never ending which contains education, various trainings and developmentprogrammes.It essentially comes with a great vision for the organisation and a leader is requiredto think beyond the boundaries for the betterment and growth in the market. An organisationconsists of many leaders who are responsible for the work of their team members (McCaffery,2018). A business environment does not consists of leadership only in an individual but theorganisation can also have leadership abilities in terms their products, brand image, marketshare, etc. which can overpower the competitors in the market. Leadership is not a easy task. Itrequires an individual to be effective and composed to handle a group of people and it isessential for a leader to possess some skills like problem solving, a leaders needs to beresponsive not reactive. Good Leadership decisions involves the team members considerationswhich also leads the smooth functioning of tasks and the chances for the success of leader alsoincreases. As per the view point of Hsin-Yi Cohen 2017, the employees within an organisationrequire need leadership for showing the direction to them, motivate workers and inspire them toperform operations in particular direction . In addition to this it also help in controlling ordiscouraging the actions that may damage the business as a whole and redirecting the workwithin the right direction so that objectives can be achieve effectively.According to the view presented by Satyendra, 2015, Leadership is consider as one of themost essential factor that help in making an organisation successful as it is an art of influencingpeople to perform task assigned much efficiently and effectively. Leadership help in meetingthree challenge such as sharing vision with employees, concerting vision into specificperformance outcome, direction to achieve objective.The concept of managementcan not be constant as it depends on the time and thesituation an organisation faces as per the demand of the market. Management concept can betermed as universal because it can be applicable in any form organisations whether be social,business, religious, etc. Management is basically considered as the principal which involves thetask of planning, executing and controlling the efforts of other individuals which are made toachieve a common objective (Bush, Bell and Middlewood, 2019). It involves getting tasksaccomplished by managing the activities of the persons by organizing them in proper formalgroups. The concept of management consists of a quality to create an environment in the

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