Management in Business - Leadership and Management

Contents

Introduction 3

Leadership concepts 3

Management concepts 3

Similarities of Leadership and Management 4

Differences in Leadership and Management 4

Different theories and concepts contribute to Leadership and Management 5

Trait theory 5

Contingency Theory 6

Conclusion 7

References List 9

Introduction

Leadership and management has always been a hot topic for people to discuss. In this report I will describe Leadership and management concepts, similarities of leadership and management, differences in leadership and management and how different theories and concepts contribute to leadership and management.

Leadership concepts

Leadership concept refers to the leader (individual or group) in the conduct of the activities of the activities of the law and the nature of the grasp. And the theory and concept of its guidance activities. Leadership concept has great influence on leadership style, leadership style and leadership value orientation. Around how to achieve organizational goals, to achieve the process of guidance, control and decision work and so on.

Leadership is the abbreviation of the leader and its leadership. Leaders are influential people in the organization. They can have a legitimate position in the organization. Supervisors who have decisions on various types of management activities. It may also be an authoritative person who does not have a definite position. Leadership is the leader who uses power or authority to guide or influence the members of the organization. So that the members of the organization consciously with the leaders to achieve the objectives of the process. Leadership is the basic function of management, which runs through the whole process of management activities.

Management concepts

Management is the process of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling the resources that an organization has in a given environment in order to achieve an established organizational goal. The significance of management is to more effectively carry out activities, improve work, more effective to meet customer needs, improve efficiency, efficiency, efficiency.

The task of management is to design and maintain an environment in which people who work in this environment can achieve their goals with as little as possible, or to achieve the greatest goal with existing resources. Broken down into four cases: output unchanged, reduced expenditure; expenditure unchanged, increased output; reduced expenditure, increased output; increased expenditure, increased output more. Expenditure here includes capital, manpower, time, materials, energy and other consumption. In short, the basic principles of management is "less force, see power more" to less resources into the consumption, the greater the meritorious service, the effect.

Similarities of Leadership and Management

① Leadership or management is the process of achieving organizational goals by influencing the coordination of others. For example, a company's sales target is $ 100,000 for this month, so leaders and managers need to work through their own methods to make their employees complete the sales target. Leaders will use their personal charm to drive employees, and managers will be based on the provisions of the company to make employees work. I think that just the way is different, the ultimate goal is the same.

② Leadership is an important part of management, is independent from the management, so leadership and management are closely related. For example, a company to enter a new market, the leader not only to use their own leadership style, but also the use of scientific management methods to enable employees to take the initiative to work, and ultimately achieve the goal.

③ When a person is engaged in management, he is also responsible for the work. For example, the HR department manager needs to manage the staff according to the company's rules, using the time sheet, the KPI checklist and other management tools. However, each person's personality is different, which leads to the management style of the HR department manager. Because the staff can voluntarily to complete the work, relying solely on management tools is not enough, the need for departmental managers to play the charm of leadership.

Differences in Leadership and Management

Leadership is a force of change, and management is a programmatic control work.

① Leadership with the overall situation, management has a local. In other words, leadership focuses on strategy, and management focuses on tactics. Leadership activities focus on the overall planning, coordination and control of the various components within the organization, and management is a technically strong work that aims to improve the efficiency of a job.

② Leadership is advanced, and management has current character. Leadership activities are committed to the direction of the development of the entire organization, which is mainly reflected in the decision-making and target development, etc., while the management is focused on the implementation of the current activities.

③ Leadership is detached, and management is operational. Leadership to fundamentally, macroscopically grasp the process of activities, and management must pay attention to the details of the problem, to embrace the people, financial, material, time, information arrangements and configuration, so that each factor is reasonable use.

④ leadership will deal with external pressure problems. The manager is focused on the task. For example, changes in the market environment, the leadership will be based on market changes to adjust the organization's strategy. And managers are very good executive leaders to develop strategies.

⑤ leadership focus on interpersonal communication, the establishment of organizational development direction. Managers focus on organizing the entire process of employee work, control and monitoring programs. For example, the company's leadership through the external cooperation to develop a full year of the market strategy plan. Managers in the implementation of the planning process, will control the progress of each link,