Understanding Management and Leadership Concepts

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Abstract
Understanding management and leadership concepts form the backbone of a successful career in
the business world. Management involves all the activities that business leaders perform in their
day to day activities in running a business, while leadership mainly concerns itself with ensuring
that the human resources operate at optimum levels (Uhl-Bien, Schermerhorn and Osborn 5).
The current report answers questions related to organization management and leadership such as
organizational behavior, transformational leadership, effective learning, and critical thinking.

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What is Organizational Behavior?
Organizational Behavior refers to the academic inquiry whose focus is understanding the
behaviors of people in groups, and the factors that affect their behavior (Uhl-Bien, Schermerhorn
and Osborn 5). Knowledge of why people behave the way they do in an organization enables the
administration to come up with ways of improving the organization’s effectiveness. For example,
in a working environment, supervisors will report absences even when the pay is high. This is
because there might be other issues affecting the workers such as incompetent leadership.
What is transformative Leadership?
McGregor Burns was the person who coined the concept of “transformational leadership” in
which he conceived it as a process in which leaders and followers work seamlessly to raise one
another’s level of motivation and morality (Earley 24). A transformational leader has many
qualities including:
 Being a person with the ability to set clear goals and motivates people to work toward
achieving them
 A person in possession of high levels of integrity and fairness
 A person who sets clear goals and vision for the future
 Encourages, supports and recognizes and appreciates the inputs of others
 A person who has high expectations
 A person who has the ability to stir the emotions of the people encourages them to rise
above their self-interest and inspires the followers to reach for the improbable.
For example, our class decided to request funding for an educational trip. Such a trip had never
been done before, which made getting the funding from the college administration difficult.
Some students were skeptical of our chances. As a class representative, I first had to sell the idea