Case Studies in Leadership
Each student must respond to the following questions and statements. Be sure to respond to all parts of each item: (1½ to 2 double-spaced pages per question).
1. Describe the relationship between leadership and the other parts of management. How essential is leadership to the other components? Leadership is one of the many assets a manger must possess. Most dictionaries suggest that they are similar by guiding and controlling a group of people to achieve a goal. In today’s world, leadership inspires others, management plans; leaders praise and managers find fault; leaders will ask questions and managers want to give directions. However, the two often ascribed to the leadership as well as to the manager. You must take care in distinguishing between the two concepts. In order to achieve this a manager must have organizing, leading, controlling and planning.
In order to organize, manager must establish task and authority relationships. For leading, the manager must motivate, coordinate and energize the individual and groups in order to work together to achieve the goals. The manager must be controlling to establish accurate measuring and monitoring systems to evaluate the organization and must have a plan in order to choose appropriate goals and course of actions to meet the goals.
Leadership is one of the important component of the directing function. You have to have formal authority to be more effective to be a leader. Often times when you lead small groups, it is not the manager who is the leader, most of the time it’s the subordinate member with the different skills who is the leader of the group. In most cases, when there are several leaders in a group, there is going to be conflict because of the different opinions. So when a manager sees change they feel there authority is tested. The leader must be loyal, because groups are more