Leadership and Management Development: Advantages and Disadvantages

This report examines leadership and management development, analyzing its advantages and disadvantages. It explores how leadership programs can enhance employee skills and foster a positive company culture, while also acknowledging potential drawbacks such as increased employee demand and disregard for other employees' needs. The report also discusses the benefits of management development, including improved skills and a supportive workplace network, as well as potential drawbacks such as high costs and difficulty in measuring effectiveness. Furthermore, the report assesses the impact of leadership and management development on organizational performance, highlighting how effective leadership fosters emotional bonds, instills confidence, and supports corporate strategy, ultimately leading to increased efficiency, employee engagement, and stakeholder returns. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of leadership programs in developing leadership skills and creating high-performing organizations.

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Introduction
Leadership refers to a practical skill that helps an individual in guiding the individuals
or the teams within the framework of a company. Leadership helps the executives in a
company in directing and guiding the behaviour of the other individuals that helps them in
accomplishing their goals in a company. Leadership is indicative of ability of managers that
helps them in inducing the subordinates so that they can carry on the work with a lot of
confidence. Leadership development helps in expanding capacity of the individuals so that
they can perform well in the leadership roles in a company. The leadership roles helps in
executing the strategies of a company by building the alignment that helps in growing the
capabilities of the other individuals in a company (Komives 2016). Management refers to the
process of administration in a company that helps in co-ordinating efforts of the employees.
Management development refers to process with the help of which the managers improve the
skills of management. This report throws light on the advantages along with the
disadvantages of the leadership development in a company. The report also elaborates on the
advantages along with the disadvantages of the development of management. The report also
discusses about the effect of the leadership along with the management development on the
performance of an organization.
Advantages of leadership and the management development
The leadership programs in a company can help in developing the leadership skills of
the employees of a company. It can help in training the future managers that can help in the
development of the talent and the skill set of the managers in a company. The leadership
training can help in the creation of a positive company culture that can increase the efficiency
of the work of the employees in a company (Gold, Thorpe and Mumford 2010). It can
acquaint the employees of a company with the systems along with the processes that can

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maximise the productivity of the employees in a company. The leadership development helps
in building the costs of the employees to reduce the costs that can improve the customer
satisfaction. The human capital management being superior in a company can act as a
predictor of the ability of a company in outperforming the competition. It helps in boosting
the engagement of the employees that can augment the ability of a company in dealing with
the gaps in the company (Sosik and Jung 2018).
There are certain advantages that an organization can get in the event of the
management development training. It can be instrumental in improving the skills along with
the knowledge of management team within the framework of a company. It can help in the
creation of a supportive network within the workplace. The skills level of a team being higher
can pave the path for the creation of efficient process that can help a company in getting the
financial returns (Storey 2016). The development of the skills of the management team can
help them in the area of problem solving that can work for the benefit of a company. The
management development can make the employees of a company feel valued that can
increase their morale. It can create the way for the creation of a comfortable and a productive
workforce. It can help in changing the perception of the employees that can increase the
productivity of the employees in a company (Volz-Peacock, Carson and Marquardt 2016).
Disadvantages of leadership and management development
The disadvantages in relation to the leadership development rises on account of the
fact that it can make an individual feel more himself to be more powerful that can have a
detrimental influence on the performance of a company. It can make an individual to behave
in a demanding manner with the co-workers that can have a negative influence on the
performance of the employees (Redmond and Dolan 2016). The leadership development can
make them uncaring towards the other employees that can be stated to be a disadvantage in

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relation to the leadership development in a company. It can make the leaders disregard the
needs along with the wants of the other employees in a company. It can create the way for the
ignoring of the other activities in a company like the planning, co-ordination of the activities
along with the organizing as leading the other people takes the precedence over the other
activities in a company (Rosenbach 2018).
There are disadvantages pertaining to the management development in a company. It
has been found that the management development does not improve the performance of the
employees. It can prove to be expensive and it can make the employees lose the contact with
the job. An organization has to find great amount of difficulty in finding a good coach that
can raise difficulties in the path of a company. It is a theoretical notion that does not yield
good returns for a company (Johnson 2018). It is not well-defined and it can act as a barrier
in the path of an organization. It is not possible to measure the effectiveness of the
management development that is a negative factor associated with the management
development within the framework of a company.
Effect of leadership and management development on organisational performance
The effective leadership can help in the development of a high performing
organization. The effective leadership training can help in fostering the emotional along with
the social bond in between the employees and that of their work that can have a positive
influence on a company. It can instill confidence in the leaders that can pave the path for the
organizational excellence. The companies that have a strong leadership culture can help in
embracing the ongoing development that can affect the change within a company. Training
can help in harnessing full potential of the leaders that can help in maximising the impact of a
business (Gerasimov and Gerasimov 2015). The leveraging of the leadership practices can
help an organization in the area of communication that can help in increasing the efficiency

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of the work of the employees. It can help in the removal of the internal roadblocks in a
company that can increase the performance of the employees (Tate 2016).
Leadership development can help in offering support to the corporate strategy that can
help an organization in becoming more effective. It helps in engaging the stakeholders that
has a positive influence on a company. The leadership development can help in engaging the
stakeholders that can help a company in getting the returns on the investment. It helps in
neutralizing the obstacles that takes an organization forward in the long run. An organization
in the event of putting the efforts on the management development helps the employees in
putting forth the creative ideas that can maximise the efforts of the employees (Smither,
Houston and McIntire 2016). It can help the employees in responding to the challenges in a
proper manner that can provide the employees with a sense of the accomplishment. The
efforts being laid on the management development can help the employees in creating a
meaningful relation with the managers along with the co-workers. The customers in the
present age want the products of good quality and the management development can help in
meeting the challenges of the organization in the present time. It can help an organization in
the area of competitive pricing that can help a company in getting an edge over the
competitors. It can aid in the process of adaptability of a company that can help an
organization in surviving within the competitive environment. It can help in improving the
problem solving with the help of the collaborative management of the organizational culture
that has positive effects on the performance of a company (Noe et al. 2017). The employees
can learn about the business system with the help of the management development programs
that can augment efficiency of performance of the employees. It can help a company in
becoming more effective that can help it in achieving the goals. It can encourage the
employees in improving their individual performance that can help an organization in making
the profits. It can help in executing the strategies in a company by the effective sharing of

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knowledge within the framework of a company. It can help in making the employees more
committed towards their profession that can act as a boon for a company.
Conclusion
Leadership programs can be instrumental in developing the skills of the leaders. It can
prove to be useful for training future managers that can help in developing their skill set
within a company. The leadership development can make the behaviour of the employees
demanding that can have negative effect on the organizational performance. The people
develop the tendency of behaving in an uncaring manner that acts as a disadvantage for an
organization. A high performance organization can be created when the managers and the
employees are developed in a company. The leadership training can help in developing the
emotional bond in between the employees of a company that can maximise the productivity
of the employees.

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