Management and Leadership Paper
MGT/230 - MANAGEMENT THEORY AND PRACTICE
Eddy Khoury
Professor TERRELL KENNARD
March 10, 2014
The difference between management and leadership is that management focuses on placing the right employee in the right position where he can do best and perform in a professional way in order to succeed in his job. Managers will be monitoring the progress of employee’s performance. While the role of leaders and leadership in general is to motivate the people to better understand the organization s vision, and help to move closer to that purpose, also help them to over cross all kind of obstacles that might face them.
A manager should be both a manager and a leader, but it does need a great manager to have both characteristics leadership and management at once. A leader should have followers that are willing to follow him and believe in his ability of leadership in order to guide them towards success. A manager must understand very well the people s potential before placing them into a certain position in the organization in order to have a good fit to the organization. Managers that are looking to fill up some positions in the organization must make sure that the individual that they chose for the position is able to work on his own, also willing to work and collaborate with others.
The whole organizational staff should understand the goal and the vision of the organization and must stay on track. In order to achieve the major organizational goal every individual in the organization must understand his role completely and follow organizational directions and vision. The best way to know if staff understands the vision of the organization, leaders inside the organization should apply their role in leadership in the best way they could and lead staff to operate and function, also to assign the right position to the right individual whom they know he could handle the task