Qualities and Practice

Learning outcome 1

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1.1 Critically analyse the concept of managersas effective leaders

•Leadership is a process by which a person influences others to accomplish an objective and directs the organization in a way that makes it more cohesive and coherent as stated by Bhugra, Gupta and Ruiz (2013) .

•Leadership is inspiring others to pursue your vision within the parameters you set, to the extent that it becomes a shared effort, a shared vision, and a shared success.

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Bass'Theoryof Leadership

• As per the observation of (Northouse, 2015), Bass' theory of leadership statesthat there are three basic waysto explain how people become leaders.

• The first two concepts explicate the leadership development for a smal numberof people, while the third one is the dominanttheory using nowadays.

• These theories are:

•Some personality traits may lead people naturally into leadership roles. This isthe Trait Theory as observed by (Antonakisand House, 2013).

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• A crisis or important event may cause a person to rise to the occasion, which brings out extraordinary

• leadership qualities in an ordinary person. This is the Great Events Theory (Chemers, 2014).

• People can choose to become leaders. People can learn leadership skills. This is the Transformational or Process Leadership Theory. It is the most widely accepted theory today and the premise on which this leadership guide is based (Northouse, 2015).

Management versesLeadership

• In common the leadership and management have a great deal, such as accomplishing the goals of the organisation and working with people and also they may differ on their mainfunctions.

• The primary function of the management is to produce consistency and order over processes, such as budgeting, organizing, planning, problem solving and staffing (Goetsch and Davis,2014).

• While leadership's main function is to produce movement and constructive or adaptive change through processes, such as establishing direction through visioning, aligning people, motivating, andinspiring.

• Leadership versus management, althoughrelatively easy to distinguishbetween the two, iscomplex becausemanypeople are both. The Manager hasthe unfortunate paradox of controlling systems, resource and standards.

• They have to ensure that everything with works to plan and that all is in order. But it doesn't stop their. They have to also lead teams to achieve unchartered boundaries and new waysof working.

• If you think about it and based on theories of Leadership, dictating through an autocratic management stylewill notwin the hearts and minds of individuals. This in turn will create more damage than good for the long term, soLeadership plays an important role in leading and motivating the teams to achieve new things(Bolman and Deal, 2017) .

• Managementnormally focuses on work and tasks. Theseactivities fit within the subject of resource: Human, time, Money, and equipment, including:

• Planning– Planning resourceand tasks to achieve the objectives

• Budgeting – Managing the constraintsof budgets in the department / project

• Organising – Organising support functionsand resource

• Controlling – Controlling the standards required to deliver the objectives

• Coordinating – Coordinating and directing project tasks for achievementof goals

• Resource use – Ensuring effective resource is used for the task at hand

• Time management– Ensuring tasks and activities are conducted withinthecorrect time frame

• Decision Making – Makingthe right decisions in the heat of the moment

• ProblemSolving– Ensureproblems are containedand eliminated.

• Managers tend to adopt impersonal, if notpassive,attitudestoward goals. Managerial goals arise outof necessities rather thandesiresand,therefore, are deeplyembedded in their organization’s history and culture.

• Theexample of Polaroid and Land suggests howleaders thinkaboutgoals. They are active instead of reactive, shaping ideas instead of respondingto them (Mujtaba, 2013) .

• Leaders adopt a personal and active attitude toward goals. Theinfluence a leader exerts in altering moods, evoking imagesand expectations,and in establishing specific desires and objectivesdetermines the direction a business takes.

• Thenetresultof thisinfluencechanges theway people think about what is desirable, possible, and necessary.

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