Leadership and Management

Leadership and Management

Leadership and Management are two very important positions to have for anyone in an organization. Both of these positions come with a great deal of responsibilities; however, they both serve two different purposes and responsibilities in an organization, along with a different sent of guidelines. This paper will differentiate between Leadership and Management, give two recommendations to create and maintain a healthy organizational culture and give two examples to support the recommendations.

Discussion

Leadership is a wonderful quality for anyone to have because not everyone possesses leadership qualities and skills; however, a person can learn to have leadership qualities if he or she has the desire. A good leader has many excellent qualities such as; a leader has followers, knows how to encourage the workers, can get results by implementing strategies, can create a vision for the company, and communicates the vision clearly. These are not the only qualities a leader must have but they are some of the most important qualities a person must have in order to be successful in a leadership position. "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." Druker, Peter F. Retrieved Dec. 14, 2005 from http://www.famous-quotes-and-quotations.com/leadership-quotes.html. Another excellent quote about leadership is "The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it." Roosevelt, Theodore. Retrieved Dec. 14, 2005 from http://www.famous-quotes-and-quotations.com/leadership-quotes.html.

Management is a very important position as well. Management takes a great deal of skill and education; however, management positions are not just for anyone. In order to be successful in a management position, one must be able to handle the responsibilities physically and mentally. In a management position, a manager must be able to plan, delegate, organize measure and control both the task and the employees, and making sure that things get done the right way. A good quote that explains a management position is "The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work." Agha Hasan Abedi. Retrieved Dec. 19, 2005 from http://en.thinkexist.com/quotations/management. To sum up the leadership and management roles is best put "Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; Leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall." Covey, Stephen R. Retrieved Dec. 14, 2005 from http://www.famous-quotes-and-quotations.com/leadership-quotes.html.

Healthy Organizational Culture Examination

When examining the role and responsibilities of a leader, one must make sure that leader has a vision and a mission. To carry out the leadership role and responsibilities, how a leader unifies the effort, builds strategies and the loyalty to employees is very important. However, having a vision and mission statement is not the most important in creating and maintaining a healthy organizational culture, having a clear vision and mission that is the most important.

Recommendations

Two recommendations that will be very effective for a leader in maintaining and controlling a healthy organizational culture are having a clear definition for roles and goals for employees and monitoring success. Many organizations do not have a clear definition for the roles and goals that their employees must follow, which only creates confusion and animosity because employees are stepping on each other's toes and they do not seem to know where each other stands. With having the roles and goals defined for the employees will eliminate the confusion and animosity among the employees. Having clear defined roles and goals are the best keys to carry out the vision and mission, and answers the questions; who does what? What are the key responsibilities? Companies with complex operations do not always track and monitor the results and systematically comparing the plan and goal-setting. For small business owners, they need to think of measuring one's success and ask them selves; how will I measure success? What measures will I need to take in order to measure employees' success? By providing a clear vision and mission can provide in both companies with complex operations and small business owners an effective process that brings forward what increases the focus on results, what is essential, or addresses morale or turnover problems. By following these two recommendations, a leader will be successful at maintaining and controlling a healthy organizational culture.

Examples

Through personal work experience as a CNA/HHA (Certified Nurse Aid/Home Health Aid) at an adult daycare center, the roles and goals were not always that clear to the employees. As a CNA/HHA, we