Report: Management and Leadership in Sport and Events - Reflection

This report delves into the crucial roles of management and leadership within the sports and events industry. It begins by defining management as the process of controlling business affairs and leadership as the ability to guide and influence behavior towards specific goals. The report highlights the importance of both aspects in achieving organizational objectives and explores various leadership and management theories. Part 1, covered in a PPT, sets the stage, while Part 2 presents a reflective analysis. The reflection includes personal experiences as an event manager, illustrating the challenges of team dynamics and the need for both management and leadership skills. It emphasizes the differences between inspiring leadership and planning-focused management, and the importance of applying situational leadership theories. The report also explores different leadership styles, such as autocratic, democratic, visionary, and transformational, and their applications in various scenarios. The conclusion emphasizes the necessity of both management and leadership for effective decision-making and organizational success. The report concludes with a list of references including books, journals, and online resources.

Management And Leadership
In Sport And Events

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
PART 1............................................................................................................................................1
Covered in PPT...........................................................................................................................1
PART 2 ...........................................................................................................................................1
Reflection....................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................2
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3

INTRODUCTION
Management can be defined as a procedure of managing and controlling the affairs of the
business in the manner of its type, structure and size. Leadership is a procedure in which
executive can direct, guide and impact on the behaviour and work to achieve specific goals.
Management and leadership both are an important aspect of any organisation that plays an
essential role to achieve all the organisational objectives & goals. Both are different from each
other and as per the situation applied different theories.
PART 1
Covered in PPT
PART 2
Reflection
Leadership is art of motivating of people and a team for the organisational goals and
objectives that set by the management. They are those person that have feature of personality and
leadership skills to make others want to follow their direction. On the other side managements is
continuous procedure where involves planning, decision making, organizing, leading, motivation
and controlling all the financial, HR, marketing activities. In a business or other place of work
require to follow leadership and management theories that helps us to take right decision and sort
out the problems effectively. In any organisation to manage different types of activities require to
follow leadership theories that guide for better management. It is said that a leader becomes a
good manager but a manager not become a good leader. For example, I became event manager in
my college where lead to a team for the stage background. This time I face many problem
because most of the students provide own suggestion. It became a reason of conflicts and other
team members tease me for these things. It is my responsibility to manage all the people properly
and guide them for project work. This time require to play role of manager as well as leader.For
this I can take suggestions from other team manager and apply my skills for this task and
influence to all peoples for effective work to complete all the task at the right time.
Leadership is about inspiring and management about planning: As per my point of view,
it is saying that the term of leadership used by people to motivate to each other while
management helps in proper planning in regard of a particular task. A leader has a tendency to
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praise success and drive people on the other side a manager work to find faults. In my college
function, I saw an individual have particular skills and they think beyond what they do and how
to become active to do bigger. After understanding both sides to accomplish excellence in doing
it and understand roles which are different as per the situation.
According to me the main difference in between management and leadership is that
leaders do not require to hold or inhabit a condition of management whereas a manager is
become a member of the business and take all the responsibility to conduct all essential activities
of a business. As per the different situation apply the situation theory that mainly based on the
situation and carry out all the effective results in a broad manner. According to my analysis, it is
understanding that manager as well leader both are playing an important role but follow their
own responsibilities to complete a task on time and achieve objectives of a business.
A manager can follow four main leadership style like autocratic, democratic, visionary,
and transformation whereas in leadership follow different styles like strategic, Laissez-faire,
coach-style and Bureaucratic style. As per my point of view every person have own style to
conduct different activities in order to play their roles in a specific manner. For example, A
manager plays their role as per the task and according to that apply function of management.
When new recruiters are joining in the company that time provides training them. This time a
manager apply authorisation style as per the requirement and complete his work on time. While a
leader can guide them as a coach and help them to follow motivational styles for all the rules and
legislation of the company and work for organisational objectives and goals.
I can analysis both concept and understand that a manager can provide direction to people
in regard to their work while a leader ask questions from people about their work and how to
complete by them. A manager has subordinate who are following all the instruction that gives bu
manager in regard to their work and leader have a follower who is following a leader and wants
to become like him/her in own work. A manager has a good position in the business where a
leader works under him but in many situations, a manager can take suggestion from a leader in
regard to a particular task. For example, A company wants to start a new project and provide all
responsibility to a manager. For this requires coordination with the leader and take help from him
to motivate all the staff member and apply all the changes effectively. So in many situations
require to both are working together and accomplish organisational goals and objectives on time.
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CONCLUSION
As per the above report it is understanding that without a manager and a leader a
company does not survive and do not take effective decision. Both are different from each other
and have different style of work but help to business to achieve their organisational objectives
and goals.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journal
Mahadevan, R. and Ren, C., 2017. Will volunteers in a youth sports event become paying
visitors?. Event Management. 21(6). pp.789-794.
Hurd, A. R., Barcelona, R. J., Zimmerman, J. A. M. and Ready, J., 2019. Leisure services
management. Human Kinetics.
Powers, S., Judge, L. W. and Makela, C., 2016. An investigation of destructive leadership in a
Division I intercollegiate athletic department: Follower perceptions and
reactions. International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching. 11(3). pp.297-311.
Magnusen, M. and Perrewé, P.L., 2016. The role of social effectiveness in leadership: A critical
review and lessons for sport management. Sport Management Education Journal. 10(1).
pp.64-77.
Online
Differences between leader and manager. 2020. [online]. Available through:
<https://www.nextgeneration.ie/blog/2018/03/the-difference-between-leadership-and-
management>
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