The Nature of Leadership and Management

The Nature of Leadership and Management

Introduction:

This chapter starts with a common introduction and definition for the Leadership and the Management. This leads to a discussion of the nature of Leadership and management as a basis for an analysis

Introduction for Leadership:

Leadership is the process of influencing other to understand and agree about what needs to be done and how to do it, and the process of facilitating individual and collective effort accomplish shared objective. As well as leader mean inspiring people to achieve a desired result. It involves developing and communicating a vision for the future, motivating people and securing their engagement. As defined by Dixon (1994:214): ‘Leadership is no more than exercising such an influence upon other that they tent to act in concert towards achieving goal which they might not have achieved so readily had they been left to their own devices.’

Definitions for Leadership:

01 ''Leadership is the ability to get a person to do what you want him to do, when you want it done, in a way you want it done, because he wants to do it'' (Dwight D. Eisenhower in Galloway 1990, 87).

02 ''Leadership is doing the right thing'' (Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus)

03 ''Leadership is mastering paradox and what they stand for'' (Tom Peters)

04 ''Leadership is a reciprocal relationship between those who choose to lead and those who decide to follow'' (Kouzes & Posner 1993, 1)

05 ''Leadership is getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done'' (Vance Packard)

06 ''Leadership is mobilizing others towards a goal shared by the leader and followers''

Introduction for Management:

Management is the attainment of organizational goals in an effective and efficient manner through planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling organizational resources. Organizational resource include men (human beings), money, machines and the materials. The word ‘Management’ is derived from the Italian verb maneggiare, which means ‘to handle a horse’ this definition as least states that to manage is to have charge of or responsibility for something, but there is a clearly more to it than that. Management has often been defined as ‘getting things done through people’ but managers are also responsible for controlling, guiding the business or organization. 

  

Definitions for Management:

01 ''The use of the people and other resources to accomplish objectives''

(Louis E Boone & David L Kurtz)

02 ''Management is the art of getting things done through and with people in formally organized group''- (Koontz)

03 ''Management is the art of the knowing what you want to do and in the best and cheapest way''- (F.W. Taylor)

04 ''Management is the accomplishment of result through the effort of other people''- (Lawrence)

Figure 01. The Nature of Manager and Leader.

The Nature/qualities/abilities between the Leadership and the Management:

S/N	Leadership	Management
01	Leaders are inspire other	Empower and develop people- understand and practice the process of delivering through the capability of others
02	Persuade other willingly to behave differently	Manage people and performance
03	Clarify what need to be done and why, what is the reason for that	Work across boundaries, engaging with others, working as a member of a team, thinking differently about problems and their solutions
04	Communicate the sense of purpose to their tem clearly	Develop relationship and a focus on the customer, building a partnership with them
05	Understand each other and respect for all other members in the team	Balance technical and generic skills
06	Get their team into action so that the risk is achieved	Always focusing about the Target given by the organization
07	Always discuss every related things with each other and share responsibilities upon the talent of the members	Some company secret keeping secure without sharing with the each other’s
08	Motivations of each team members	Assigning task to appropriate team member
09	Inspiring/ leading by example	Reviewing work out put and quality
10	Setting direction	Understanding the goal of team and company

The Nature of Leadership and Management:

There has been much debates on how leadership differs from Management. The problem is that leadership involves management and management involve leadership so that it may be difficult to separate the two. There is some consensus on the essential nature of both and the skilled involved, as mentioned above, but there is more disagreement on which is the most important.

References:

Yuki G. (2010). Leadership in Organizations. 7th edition.

Dwight D. Eisenhower in Galloway 1990, 87.

Kouzes & Posner 1993, 1.

Bolden, R (2010) Leadership, management and organizational development, in (eds) J Gold,

Drucker, P (1955) The practice of Management, Oxford, Heinemann