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
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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