Exploring Leadership in Organizations: A Presentation

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Table of Content
Title Page No.
Introduction 3
Defining leadership 4
Leadership importance 5
Leadership theories 6-7
Differences between leadership
and management
8
Conclusion 9
References 10

Introduction
• The aim of this presentation is to describe
about leadership theme.
• The presentation analyzes the leadership
importance in the organization.
• The presentation also analyzes how
leadership distinguishes from
management

Leadership
• The act of leading people in an
organization. According to…………
leadership can be defined as the process
of influencing people by which objectives
are attained in an appropriate manner.
• Leadership is not same as management as
it is the major element of management.

Leadership importance in the
organization
• Leadership is the important element in the
organization that helps in managing the
organization as a whole. It helps in maximizing
efficiency as well as helpful in attaining the
goals of organization.
• It helps the company to motivate the people by
providing them financial as well as non-
financial incentives and the work is completed
in an effective manner (Van Dierendonck,
2011).
• It also helps in creating confidence among the
employees in the organization.

Leadership theories
There are various leadership theories such as
• Transformational leadership theory
• According to Odumeru and Ogbonna (2013), defined as
the theory where the leader works with the team to
analyze whether there any change required or not.
• By working with the team the leader also develops
vision to provide proper guidance to the people by
giving them appropriate reason.
• Transformational leadership theory can also be adopted
by the leader in order to a successful for the long-term.
To be
continued……….

Lewin’s leadership style
• This leadership style was developed by Kurt Lewin in
the year 1939.
• This leadership style set is with different leadership
styles such as Autocratic leadership style, Participative
leadership style, and Lasissez-faire leadership style.
• In terms of Autocratic leadership style, the leader
makes the decision independently.
• The leader only gives orders to the followers to
accomplish the task.
• They do not involve the employees in decisions
making. In terms of participative leadership style, the
leaders are involved by the followers and take their
opinion in terms of completing the task (Chou, 2012).
• They also encourage the followers towards their work.
Laisissez-faire leadership where the leader do not
guide the team members the decision is left upon
them.

Differences between leadership
and management
• In terms of management the manager give the directions,
and it is the process of managing the activities of the
organization.
• In terms of management it includes manager control over
the subordinates. On the other hand, leadership is virtue of
leading people by encouraging them.
• It requires followers on his leader. It is a skill of influencing
others. On the other hand, management is the ruling
quality. The leader demands for leadership foresightedness,
in terms of management it has the short range vision.
• In terms of leadership, guidelines as well as principles are
established, in terms of management policies and
procedures are implemented.
• Leadership is proactive as compare to management. In
terms of management it brings stability for the business.
• In terms of leadership, it brings change.

Conclusion
• From the above analysis, it can be
concluded that leadership plays essential
role in the organization to make the
company reach to the success.
• It has also been analyzed that leadership
and management are different from one
another.

References
• Van Dierendonck, D. (2011) Servant
leadership: A review and synthesis. Journal
of management, 37(4), pp.1228-1261.
• Chou, S.Y. (2012) Millennials in the
workplace: A conceptual analysis of
millennials' leadership and followership
styles. International Journal of Human
Resource Studies, 2(2).
• Odumeru, J.A. and Ogbonna, I.G. (2013)
Transformational vs. transactional leadership
theories: Evidence in literature. International
Review of Management and Business
Research, 2(2), p.355.