Leadership and Management: Skills, Theories, and Styles Analysis

This report provides a comprehensive overview of leadership and management, defining the roles of leaders and managers and highlighting their key differences. It explores the functions of managers, including planning, organizing, and resource allocation, while also detailing the role of leaders in providing direction, inspiring others, and fostering innovation. The report differentiates between hard and soft skills, emphasizing their importance for success. It also discusses transactional and transformational leadership styles, along with theories of leadership such as the traits and contingency theories, providing a detailed analysis of these concepts. References to relevant literature are included to support the analysis.

Management and Operations

Definition of leaders and Managers
 Leaders - Individuals who impact his followers to achieve the goal within a specified
deadline. They are accountable for crating vision as well as motivates followers. They
acts as representatives of the organization. They boost whole team members to work
together to achieve their goals.
 Managers- They are the individuals who are accountable for all the management
regarding planning, control, coordination. They have the power to hire and fire the
employees, they get their work done by their employees in various ways. Managers
present within a firm such as functional managers, general managers, project managers
and many more

Difference between leaders and Managers.
Managers leaders
They have the ability to execute
the vision that is provided by the
leaders ,in short they are the
followers. Managers copy the
leaders.
They provide vision to the
managers and employees. They are
the innovators
Managers have the ability to follow
the direction provided by the
leaders.
They provides the direction to the
staff members and managers of the
firm
Build process and system Leaders build relationship.

Functions of a manager
 Managers are the person who deals with complexity affect the firms manages complexity
through staffing, budgeting, planning ,measuring performance, clarifying jobs especially
when the desired outcomes are not going as per the plan.
 Plan
 Managers are the persons who sets the goals as well as operational plans.
 They are responsible for submit budgets
 Accountable for allocate resources.
 Organise
 Managers create as well as establish structure to achieve plans
 Develop staffing and delegate them responsibilities through finding the best fit between
tasks and people.
 Accountable for developing various system to monitor progress, procedures as well as
developing various polices.

Role of a leader
 Leader are the persons who are ready to create future viability for the firm through aligning people also they
provide motivation as well as inspire to the friends.
 Provides direction
 They are the one who gives vision as well as focuses its importance to everyone all over the firm
 They are accountable for developing strategies
 They are the innovators and always ready to adopt the changes.
 Align people
 They are accountable for communicate the direction
 They engage people in implementing through assisting them as where employees are fit
 Build commitment as when the project assigned to them are big and completed over the time.
 Motivate
 able to recognizes the success of the reward and recognizes the performance of the employees and employees
who are demotivating leaders motivate them

CONT..
 Hard skills- They are skills that are teachable as they are easy to quantify as well as learn hard
skills within classroom teaching or by the books as well as materials on the training programs. It
includes proficiency within a foreign language.
 Hard skills are directly linked to the work or job done by an individual that's why they are called
as Job specific skills. They are testable, quantifiable, easier to learn in comparison to the soft skills.
 Soft skills - These are the personal attributes that focuses on how to interact with others and hat are
essential for the success as well as career development. With the help of the soft skills it is quite
easier it form the relationship with other persons that makes visible regarding the right persons.
 An individual work anywhere, any job there is a need to develop soft skills. For many people soft
skills are the also consider as the most difficult to develop.

CONT..
 Transactional leadership- These are the style that maintain the normal flow regarding
operations. Leaders able to handle all the operations that comes together in order to build a
strong reputation within marketplace while making the employees more productive.
 They are significant for the strategic development especially for the small business
 Transformational leadership- These are the leaders who taps with followers. They focus to raise
the significance regarding particular outcomes and high order needs within new ways where the
new outcomes might be accomplished. This style focuses on the motivation, team building,
collaboration with staff members at various level of a firm to achieve change.
 Leaders regarding this approach focuses on the incentives and goals so that they are able to push
their co-workers at the higher level as well as also provides the opportunity regarding professional
and personal growth regarding each staff member.

Theories of leadership
 Traits theory- As per this theory it believes that individual is born or made some specific
qualities that assist them to excel their leadership roles as these are intelligence, creativity,
sense of responsibility as well as other values. As per this theory it focuses on the analysing
physical, mental as well as social characteristics in order to make the good understanding.
 As per researchers there are various perspectives that focuses on the physiological attributes
such as weight, appearance, demographics (education, family background, judgement as well
as knowledge)
 Contingency theory- This theory focuses on the different variables as well as various
leadership that suited for given situation. According to this theory it argues that there is no
single leadership is applicable regarding every situation.
 According to this leadership is one that are able to finds out the perfect balance between
needs, behaviours, context and needs. Significant leaders are not posses the right qualities
but also analysis the desires of their followers

REFRENCES
Books and Author
 Klotz, A.C. and Neubaum, D.O., 2016. Article commentary: Research on the dark side
of personality traits in entrepreneurship: Observations from an organizational behavior
perspective. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.40(1).pp.7-17.
 Kanfer, R. and Chen, G., 2016. Motivation in organizational behavior: History,
advances and prospects. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision
Processes. 136.pp.6-19.

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