Leadership and Management: Similarities, Differences, and Theories

LEADERSHIP AND
MANAGEMENT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Literature Review............................................................................................................................3
Similarities Between Management and Leadership....................................................................4
Differences Between Management and Leadership....................................................................5
Leadership Theories.....................................................................................................................6
Evaluation of NHS Leadership Development Programme..............................................................7
Importance of Leadership Training and Development for Organisations...................................7
NHS Leadership Programme.......................................................................................................8
Effectiveness of the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Leadership programme................................10
Individual and Organisational Benefits of the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson programme...........12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
There are a lot of differences between the managers and leaders in the organization so
that there is a better functioning in the market of the business. The managers help the
organization to have a direction and the planning of the organization which gives a direction to
the company to work in so that they can have a competitive advantage for a long run. Managers
have to control, plan, organize and have decision making power creative so that they can make
the company have a better functioning. Leaders have to motivate and inspire the employees of
the organization so that they can have a better functioning of the organization so that there is a
better performance level in the organization. Leaders and managers of the organization should be
experienced and skilled so that there is a better decision which can be made and the productivity
of the organization can be improved. The internal and external factors have to be analysed by the
leaders and managers of the company so that they can have a planned future which will help the
company to achieve their goals. Transformational leadership is an effective style so that they can
give the best interaction with the employees and the company will be able to have a better
functioning. In the report there is a discussion of the different methods and strategies which the
leaders and managers of organization can use so that there is a better functioning which is going
to be very helpful for a long run of the business. There are different outcomes of methods which
have to be used by experience and skill so that there is a better functioning and the company will
be able to get a competitive advantage.
Literature Review
According to De Nobile (2018) leadership is a quality which always has employed in a
leader. Leader plays very great role in an organisation to positively influence people or
employees in workplace. It is mainly works for increasing performance level of their employees
or team members. A leader always responsible to give specific direction and guidelines to
employees who comes under their command. Leaders responsible to inform their respective team
members about what to do, when to do, where to do and how to do any task. Without an effective
leadership, a business or company can’t achieve its objectives or goals in decided time period.

On the other side, management is a practice which has conducted by managers to
systematically organise, arrange and control different resources to achieve organisational
objectives. A manager within company or business is always responsible to take major decisions.
It takes various steps towards preparing a specific plan to run all organisational activities in a
proper channel. Basically, a manager plays very major role in an organisation, because it
develops various strategies or techniques to gain effective results in the market. Each leader and
employee of any company is responsible to take orders from their managers. It takes various
productive decision to boost existing performance of business in respective industry or sector. It
is responsible to supervise or manage each activity within organisations, and it need to provide
some specific guidelines to their employees in daily operations. A manager always need to
develop or build a happy or healthy workplace for their all employees.
Similarities Between Management and Leadership
As per Johnston and Marshall (2016) view of there are some similarities between
management and leadership. These similarities have defined as, a manager and a leader both
always takes various steps towards improving workability and efficiency of their employees.
Both puts their greats efforts in daily operations of organisation to achieve all over targets in
decided time period. Without managers and leaders an organisation can’t run its daily operations
in proper manner, because these are the main people who give specific directions and ways to all
employees to conduct different operations. Both prepare a specific plan to maintain a happy and
healthy workplace, because they completely understand that, this type of workplaces always
increases productivity of existing employees.
Managers and leaders always takes various decisions towards providing some specific
training sessions to their workforce. Reason is, these training sessions are too important to
improve skills and talent of employees. Achieving great return in the market, is the common goal
of a manager and a leader. Many times some conflicts raise in workplace, so both always try to
remove such conflicts from workplace. As illustrated by Mayr (2017) leader and a manager are
responsible to improve self-skills as well, because it is necessary to handle different situations
within workplace. Problem solving abilities are plays great role in job role of a leader and a
manager. Reason is, both can easily solve any problem in daily operations with support of these
abilities.