The purpose of this assignment is to discuss the many differences between leadership and management. By the end of this assignment I will have outlined a few main topics in the differences between these two types of theories. I will discuss the many advantages and disadvantages of both leadership and management. I will also outline the definitions of both leadership and management. I will be comparing the characteristics that make a good leader and manager. In my conclusion I will briefly discuss the main points that I have learned about the two different topics and summarise what was in my portfolio.
Defining leadership and management
There are many different definitions for both leadership and management depending on the type of work, situations
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They aren’t trained to lead large-scale change’ (John Kotter, Leading change, 1996). Managers control people to get to a certain goal and they also organise direction of work. Managers don’t seem to make any sort of relationship with the people they are controlling and because of this, find it hard to motivate people to pass a given goal. Management tends to focus more so on work and tasks.
Advantages and disadvantages of leadership and management
According to Daniel Goleman there are six leadership styles commonly used. These are ‘coercive, pacesetting, democratic, affiliative and authoritative. As there are a lot of styles of leadership, not one leadership style is effective in all situations as some of these styles have their own advantages and disadvantages.
The coercive leadership style has to be the most unbeneficial type as it is a very demanding control on the people. The only advantage of this style is that it can be effective in a situation where there is a crisis and the people have direct instructions they must obey
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The biggest fact that I have learned in this report is that no effective leader follows just one leadership style and multiple leadership styles must be interlinked together depending on the task or objective. Furthermore, during this report I have learned that any good manager is not just a manager but a leader too. According to Kotterman (2006), a well-balanced organisation should have a mix of both managers and leaders to thrive and succeed. In my experience in working under many supervisors I have noticed that the good supervisor keeps criticism to a minimum and always motivates the team to strive in a task. A good supervisor also has a great relationship with the team I worked with. The poorer supervisors that I worked under tended to lean towards a coercive style which was negative to the team as morale is low and criticism was a