GROUP 5 PRESENTATION

PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT

OUTLINES

DEFINITIONS OF:

PERSONALITY

PERSONALITY TRAITS

LEADERSHIP

TYPES OF LEADERSHIP

TRAITS OF EFFECTIVE LEADEERSHIP

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MANAGERS AND LEADERS

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MANAGERS AND LEADERS

PERSONALITY

According to oxford dictionary, 6th edition, Personality has to do with individual differences among people in behavior patterns, cognition and emotion.

A person’s unique pattern of traits

Complex set of unique psychological qualities that influences an individual characteristics pattern of behavior across different situation over time

PERSONALITY TRAITS

Personality traits involves all the aspects of a person’s behavior and attitudes that make up that person’s personality eg. Sanguinity, choleric, melancholic and phlegmatic.

Some basic components of personality include

• Openness

• Conscientiousness

• Extroversion

• Agreeableness

• neurotism

LEADERSHIP

. Leadership on the other hand, is the act of leading a group of people in an organization or the state of being a leader

TYPES OF LEADERSHIP

Laissez-Faire

Autocratic

Participative

Transactional

Transformational

TRAITS OF EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP

Ability to take decision

Ability to inspire action.

Ability to be optimistic.

The issue of integrity.

Ability to support and facilitate your team.

The issue of confidence

Ability to effectively communicate.

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN LEADERS AND MANAGERS AND RELATIONSHIP

1. While managers lay down the structure and delegates authority and responsibility, leaders provides direction by developing the organizational vision and communicating it to the employees and inspiring them to achieve it.

2. While management includes focus on planning, organizing, staffing, directing and controlling; leadership is mainly a part of directing function of management. Leaders focus on listening, building relationships, teamwork, inspiring, motivating and persuading the followers.

3. While a leader gets his authority from his followers, a manager gets his authority by virtue of his position in the organization.

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN LEADERS AND MANAGERS AND RELATIONSHIP CONT’D

4. While managers follow the organization’s policies and procedure, the leaders follow their own instinct.

5. Management is more of science as the managers are exact, planned, standard, logical and more of mind. Leadership, on the other hand, is an art. In an organization, if the managers are required, then leaders are a must/essential.

6. While management deals with the technical dimension in an organization or the job content; leadership deals with the people aspect in an organization.

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN LEADERS AND MANAGERS AND RELATIONSHIP CONT’D

7. While management measures/evaluates people by their name, past records, present performance; leadership sees and evaluates individuals as having potential for things that can’t be measured, i.e., it deals with future and the performance of people if their potential is fully extracted.

8. If management is reactive, leadership is proactive. 9. Management is based more on written

communication, while leadership is based more on verbal communication.

References

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http://www.managementstudyguide.com/leadership-management.htm

2. Pamela, S.L, Patricia, M.F & Steven H.G (1999). Management challenges in the 21th century. 2nded.

3. Raquel L. (2014). Instructional approaches and its connections to organizational growth. The relationship between leadership and monument, vol (6), 1-15.4.Dr. Roy, W. M. (2012). The relationship between leadership and management. Retrieved on 31th May 2015. From www.streetdirectory.com/etoday/leadearship-and-management-similarities-clpwaa.html

 

 

 

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