Management

Good leaders are made not born. If a person has the desire and willpower, he can become an effective leader. Good leaders develop through a never ending process of self-study, education, training, and experience.

To inspire workers into higher levels of teamwork, there are certain things a leader must be, know, and, do. These do not come naturally, but are acquired through continual work and study. Good leaders are continually working and studying to improve their leadership skills; they are NOT resting on their laurels.

Definition

Leadership is a process by which a person influences others to accomplish an objective and directs the organization in a way that makes it more cohesive and coherent. Leaders carry out this process by applying their leadership attributes, such as beliefs, values, ethics, character, knowledge, and skills.

Leadership and organizational learning

In the field of organizational learning, leadership entered the discussion as a proxy for the organization. Initial concepts of leadership in organizational learning were based on the notion of the dominant coalition. Organizational learning theorists had suggested that the senior management team, or dominant coalition, was in fact the organization level of organizational learning.

Five Leadership constructs affecting each of the five organizational learning constructs shown in SLAM. Leadership of individual and group-level learning relates to the ways in which the leader supports or undermines learning at that level. Leadership of the organization level refers to the more typical domain of strategic management. The leadership of the feed-forward flow represents the degree that the leader ensures that the nonhuman elements of the organization, such as procedures, routines, and systems, support learning at the individual and group levels.

There are 14 behaviors of effective leaders , supporting,consulting,delegating,recognizing,rewarding,motivating,managing conflicts and team building, developing, clarifying, planning and organizing , problem solving, informing, monitoring, representing, and networking.

In conclusion leadership has a high correlation with all elements of the organizational learning system and it is a means to leverage knowledge through organizational learning.

Management vs. Leadership Managers are basically administrators - they write business plans, set budgets and monitor progress. Leaders get organizations and people to change. There is a difference between management and leadership. Management is a function that must be exercised in any organization; leadership is a relationship between the leader and the led that can energize an organization. The management function can include problem solving and facilitating meetings as well as the traditional bureaucratic tasks. It is not necessary for the same person in a group to exercise this entire task. Different people can take on parts of the management function. Someone on a team can do the planning. Another person can do the budgeting. A

Confusing leadership and management and treating the words as if they were synonymous have a long and illustrious history in leadership studies. The practice is pervasive in the mainstream literature of leadership. It is pervasive in all academic disciplines where one can find the literature on leadership. As has been shown in the discussion of the definitions of leadership since the 1930s, leadership scholars instilled the values from the industrial paradigm into their understanding of leadership and equated leadership with good management. Many scholars and practitioners went even further to compare leadership with management. Very simply put, leading is establishing direction and influencing others to follow that direction. However, there are many variations and different areas of emphasis to this very simple