Leadership vs Management Assignment
1. Define and explain Management?
Answer:
Management is the action or process of dealing how to use or do a task. It is the function that coordinates the effort of people to accomplish goals and objectively by using available resources efficiently and effectively. It includes planning, organizing, staffing, directing or leading and controlling an organization to accomplish the target or goal.
In the present world lot of people find it increasingly that it is very hard to subdivide management into functional sub categories or modules. Concepts of management theory also exist relating to nonprofits and to government such as public administration, public management, and educational industry. Further, management programs related to civil-society organizations have also spawned programs in nonprofit management and social entrepreneurship.
The basic functions of management operates through are planning, organizing, coordinating, commanding and controlling. The basic roles of a management are Interpersonal, informational and decision making. There are several skills that comes under management such as conceptual knowledge, leadership, technical and political skills for the efficient working to reach the goals or target in their respective activities.
2. Define and explain Leadership?
Answer:
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do somebody you want done because he wants to do it. Leaders are the people who do the right things in a correct and efficient manner. In United States academic environments leadership is defined as a process of social influence in which a person can engage the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a group task or work.
Leadership is an incorporating array of entities that can come from higher levels of physical power, need to display power and control others, ability to generate force and fear, or group-member's need for a powerful group protector, Extraordinary mental energies, super motivational forces, capable in communication and behaviors, lack of fear, courage, determination. The leader begins to rely on the individuals of the respected group members with especially challenging tasks.
If the follower responds well, the leader will rewards the respected individual by assigning and providing extra guidelines and coaching. If the follower or the group member shows highly commitment and effort followed by the additional rewards, both the sides develops and improves mutual understanding and trust, support and influence on one another.
3. What are at least 5 differences between management and leadership?
Answer: Differences between Management and Leadership are as follows:
Management:
Leadership:
4. Name Five (5) leaders you like and explain why you consider them as a great leader?
Answer: The five leaders whom like the most are written and explained below:
It takes a man with a vision to lead a country during its bad times. Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of USA, led the country through the US Civil War. He struggled hard and did his best to keep the people of the country together or else, today, America would have been many smaller countries instead of one big country. He signed the Emancipation Proclamation, thereby ending slavery in US. He heart ached for the ones for whom he could do not do anything. His conviction, humility, oratory skills made him one of the greatest leaders we have ever had.
Advocate for education rights
Malala Yousafzai first stood up to the Taliban when she was 11. A fierce and outspoken defender of a female's right to education, the Swat Valley schoolgirl was shot by them four years later aboard her school bus. The senseless act stunned the world, just as her recovery and continued activism despite more death threats have drawn many to her cause. Bede Sheppard of Human Rights Watch calls Malala a "radiant example that children can be intelligent and savvy advocates for their own rights.
Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, better known as El Che or Che Guevara was an Argentine revolutionary who was, along with Castro, the main man of the Cuban Revolution. He was a trained doctor and a guerilla warfare leader. After finishing his education as a doctor, he took a trip across South America with his friend and it was on the trip that he thought of a revolution, having seen the sorry state of the people in every country. His compassion, charisma, and the love for doing good for others is what attracted so many people towards him. Today, he has become a symbol of rebellion and he right deserves to be so.
Now, many people will argue and disagree with the fact that a man like Hitler is called a great leader but we have to say that although his actions and deeds were not good but his leadership skills were matched only by few in the world. He became the chancellor of Germany in 1933, rising through the ranks and waged a great war. But his oratory skills, military expansions and economic growth plans are something whose credit we have to duly give him and him alone. Meticulous planning, propaganda and strategizing by Hitler has in some way, shaped the power politics of the world that we see even today.
Managing director, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Lagarde became IMF chief in July 2011 as the European debt crisis grew most acute. Her unenviable task required juggling the concerns of 188 member countries while supporting IMF bailouts of Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and other troubled countries. She did so and is still doing so largely with success, though the IMF's stringent conditions on aid have angered some. Lagarde combines her tough prescription of austerity with an argument that reforms will help the poor and unemployed above all — a balance that has increased acceptance of her message.
5. Find a video (minimum of 5 minutes) that you thinks explains what it means to be a leader?
Answer: The below give link for the motivational video on Leader case and Leadership:
The above mentioned video link explains or describes about the Leader case and Leadership. The above video is based on real life situation and it is promoted and brought by openthemeeting.com.
The video conversation is lies between a family of 4 members including two (2) children i.e., one elder sister and younger brother. The girl very much cares about his brother while he sleeping in dark night on a couch in their home. Initially she went to her parent’s room with a disappointed or sad face expression, then her parents asked her about what happened and why you are sad, then she replied as his younger brother is slept on the couch which is in darkroom. After this her parents try to
convince her that its ok nothing will happened, after hearing these words from her parents she left from that place. When 10-15 pass away the mother of the girl went to the girl’s room and searched for her, she doesn’t find her came to downstairs, there she observed that the both the child are sleeping on same couch, as soon as she comes to the children she keenly observed that her daughter is crying and her hand on his brother to take care him and dragging him to her lap.
The main moto or inspiration from the video is being a courageous leader does not mean you are not afraid, it just mean that you care more about something else than what you fear and also leaders who care about someone else have the ability or capability to overcome their fear. Final message is that the courageous leaders do the right things or takes right actions instead of searching for the easiest one.
References:
http://listovative.com/top-15-greatest-history-leaders-of-all-time/
http://fortune.com/2014/03/20/worlds-50-greatest-leaders/
https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_41.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management
http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/management.html