Chapter 1 - Leadership and Management

Question 1

Change, Kotter. Leadership vs Management

Answer 1

Leadership - creates useful change
Management - produces orderly results which keep things working efficiently.

Both are needed in an organisation!

Question 2

Edwards and collegues talks about two types of power

Answer 2

1. personal power - power that resides from who we are
2. positional power - power that comes with our role of position we hold in an organisation

–> turned out to be a model: “A conceptual framework of the leadership and management debate based on constructs of power”.

Question 3

Old problems VS new problems

Answer 3

Management is about coping with old problems that reoccur

Leadership is about deals with new complex problems that do not have certain answers and endpoints.

Question 4

Schein’s view of leaders vs managers

Answer 4

Leaders create, manage and change CULTURE