Differentiate between management and leadership
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Prepare a paper in which you differentiate between management and leadership. Examine the role and responsibilities of leaders in creating and maintaining a healthy organizational culture. Make two recommendations to create and maintain a healthy organizational culture. Provide examples from the readings and/or your personal experience to support your recommendations.
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Prepare a paper in which you differentiate between management and leadership. Examine the role and responsibilities of leaders in creating and maintaining a healthy organizational culture. Make two recommendations to create and maintain a healthy organizational culture. Provide examples from the readings and/or your personal experience to support your recommendations.
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Prepare a paper in which you differentiate between management and leadership.
The functions of management are planning, organizing, directing (or leading), and controlling. Leading is a major part of a manager's job, yet a manager must also plan, organize, and control.
Broadly speaking, leadership deals with the interpersonal aspects of a manager's job, whereas planning, organizing, and controlling deal with the administrative aspects. Leadership deals with change, inspiration, motivation, and influence.
Following are several key distinctions between management and leadership (Dubrin, 2007):
? Management produces order, consistency, and predictability.
? Leadership produces change and adaptability to new products, new markets, new competitors, new customers, and new work processes.
? Leadership, in contrast to management, involves having a vision of what the organization can become and mobilizing people to accomplish it.
? Leadership requires eliciting cooperation and teamwork from a large network of people and keeping the key people in that network motivated by using every manner of persuasion.
? Leadership produces change, often to a dramatic degree, such as by spearheading the launch of a new product or opening a new market for an old product. Management is more likely to produce a degree of predictability and order.
? Top-level leaders are likely to transform their organizations, whereas top-level managers just ...
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