Leadership

Leadership-“is a relationship through which one person influences the behaviour or actions of other people” (Mullins, 2010, P829).

Management-“the process through which efforts of members of the organisation are co-ordinated, directed and guided toward the achievements of organisational goals” (Mullins, 2010, P829).

There are many differences between management and leadership the first is management control and solve problems while leadership aims to motivate and inspire while creating direction.  Another difference is that leadership purpose is to welcome and encourage change by providing the people with a vision. However management strive for order and obviousness by making sure that everything is always well organise. Management have a low level of emotional involvement and is detached whereas leadership can provide empathy by understanding the circumstances. Overall management is concern with results while leadership is concern more with transformation.

Managerial Grid

The managerial grid was developed and published in 1964 by Blake and Mouton. They studied leadership behaviour they went on to describe to extreme of leadership concern which are;

v  Concern for production –this leader makes sure everything gets done effectively to achieve the best results.

v  Concern for people-this leader doesn’t care about how effectiveness or productivity but is more concern about people’s feelings.

The five basic combinations

v  The impoverished Manger-expects the minimal efforts and has no concern for results or people. This manger is doing just enough to keep her job but is basically just going through the motions.

v  The authoritative manger-has no concern for people and is all about getting the job done. Only likes to work with people who are like them and hates people that challenge them.  Their leadership is controlling, demanding and unbearable.

v  Social manger-comes to work to socialise and likes to work with their friends. Despise conflict and constantly like everyone to be happy.

v  The middle of the road manager-is sometimes known as the Politian, is more concern about maintaining the status-quo and avoids conflict. Has reasonable concern for people and productivity.

v  The team manager-extremely concern about productivity and people.

I think that my boss would be best described as “the authoritative manger”. There are many reason for this the first is that he is only concern about the company itself and not his employee. He views his employees as a means to and end which that they are only there to get the job done. He is defiantly a demanding person he rules with and iron f so 98% of the staff doesn’t challenge him. As much as he’s got high standards he would definitely applaud if you’re doing well.   

One of the first persons that come to mind when I think of a strong leader is Martin Luther King Jr. I believe leaders are born they are not made and Mr Luther was definitely born to be a leader. He epitomes what a great leader should be like. One of the qualities that a leader should be possessed is the ability to inspire and motivate people along with have a vision which he certainly had. Mr King was confident without being arrogant which another important trait is as it shows his character as a person. Someone once said a great leader is judge not by the number of people who fair him but by the amount of people who respect him. Mr King was and is still very highly respected because he gave respect. As a leader he was intelligent, determined, self-assuring, resolute, kind and ultimately selfless.

Reference

1.     Mullins. L. J. Published 1985. Latest edition (9th) 2010.Management & Organisational Behaviour. Essex. Pearson Education Limited