Essay On Managing And Leading

INTRODUCTION

Managing and leading are completely the two different ways of organizing the people. Leadership is the ability of an individual to control, encourage and enable others to contribute toward the efficiency & the success of the organizations of which they are team members. On the other hand management includes the directing and controlling a group of more than one people or entities for the function of coordinating & harmonizing the group towards accomplishing a goal.

Management is defined as the control process that ensures lapses in performance are marked and corrected through the feedback. Managerial processes are almost closest to the fail-safe and the risk-free. The contribution of the leadership is to encourage, motivate and energies people by fulfilling the essential human needs for accomplishment, self esteem, recognition, a sense of belonging, control over another life and an ability to live up to one’s ideals.

Best leaders encourage people by building the vision appropriate to the specific group, supporting the employee with proper training, feedback, role modeling and by recognizing and rewarding success. Leadership is also define people whilst management, control and creating results whereas management is the one who has lesser skill than the leadership one. (Yukl, "nobody has proposed that leadership and management are equivalent, but the degree of overlap is a point of sharp disagreement" 2006, p5). The functions of the management can provide the leadership and the leadership actions can contribute to managing but still various leaders do not manage and various managers do not lead. It is the Bernard Bass’s assessment in his 1,200 page opus, "Bass and Stogdill’s Handbook of Leadership" (page 383).

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... However, as a result GE became an extremely booming company under his management and his team was always enthusiastic to follow his lead as people under his management knew that he forever kept his word.

CONCLUSION

The conclusion of the report is that the management and leadership are both different concepts as the manager uses a reserved, rational and formal method while on the other hand the leader uses his passion and stirs emotions. From the above discussions it is very specific that there is a strong request for the leadership even in the areas where the request is either verbally or essentially of the managerial nature. Managers of all the levels play a significant role in the development of the self assessment project through the known business excellence and the performance evaluation models and have the strong impact on the company journey to excellence.