Management and Leadership Flashcards
Definitions of management and leadership
- Management by objectives
- Situational leadership
- Contingency leadership
- Functional management
- Action-centred leadership
- Transformational leadership
- Transactional leadership
Manager
A managers role is to plan, organize and coordinate work
Job roles:
* Delegate tasks - get people to do certain things
* Organise workforce
* Set and pass on objectives/ aims/ goals for the business
* Manage employee health and wellbeing
Leadership
A leader’s role is to inspire and motivate others
The ability to get things done by the collective effort of others.
Job roles:
* Motivate and support employees
* Remind workforce of aims and objectives within the business
* Manage health and wellbeing
Management by objectives
- Managers set objectives for employees to achieve business goals
- Relies on delegation, as employees take responsibility for achievement of objectives
- Employees have some independence to achieve objectives
Situational Leadership
- Employees are followers who may/ may not have the ability and willingness to do a job
- Managers adopt different ways to get employees to do their jobs
Contingency leadership
- Managers identify the type of problem and either resolve it themselves or seek employee collaboration
- Sometimes managers may need to be autocratic and instruct employees to carry out tasks; at other times they may give employees greater freedom
Functional management
- Each manager manages a limited range of activities and uses their knowledge and understanding to direct employees
Action-centred leadership
For every job, managers must balance three main management responsibilities:
* Achieving the task
* Managing the team
* Managing individuals
Transformational leadership
Leaders who believe their job is to inspire and motivate others to work hard
Transactional leadership
Leaders who believe employees have to be rewarded in order to work
Management functions
- Planning
- Organizing
- Coordinating
- Controlling
- Monitoring
- Delegating
Planning
Management functions
Involves:
- determining the business’ goals
- working out a strategy to achieve the goals
- designing a plan to implement the strategy
Organising
Management functions
This is one of the main jobs of a manager and involves arranging relationships between Human Resources and other resources in order to accomplish goals
Coordinating
Management functions
Closely related to organising
Having the right people in the right place , with the right skills, at the right time.
Making sure that when a job needs to be done the resources are there to ensure it happens
Controlling
Management functions
Ensuring that all of the activities going on in the organisation are aimed at meeting the organisations goals.
Also about making sure that each individual resource, human or financial, is performing to the best level
Monitoring
Management functions
Involves systematically checking on progress or performance.
Ensuring that once resources have been set to accomplish a goal they are actually accomplishing that goal or moving towards it.
Delegating
Management functions
Involves giving someone the power and authority to carry out a task or activity on the manager’s behalf.
A manager cannot directly lead all activities and has to rely on others, such as junior managers, supervisors and team leaders, to accomplish goals under their direction.
Leadership functions
- Inspiring
- Energising
- Influencing Stakeholders
- Envisioning
- Determining best path to success
Inspiring
Leadership functions
A leader will try to motivate individuals to do or feel something and to believe that all goals are achievable. Inspirational leaders set the pace of change. They have a belief in the future and try to connect individuals to show that what they are doing has a meaning.
Energising
Leadership functions
Aims to give individuals the drive and will to accomplish goals. A good leader will make people feel much more able and more powerful to be able to achieve targets.
Energising leadership is all about mobilising and focusing activity and effort.
Influencing Stakeholders
Leadership functions
A good leader will direct the activities of stakeholders - individuals and groups who have an interest in the business - and mobilise their support. They will try to ensure that the shareholders or owners of the organisation are rewarded for their investment by showing good profits.
Envisioning
Leadership functions
One of the most important functions of a leader
Means that they are able to create an image of the future and then develop a strategy to achieve it.
They have to communicate this to others and convince them to buy in to the vision. A good leader would be able to create a clear strategy to achieve the vision.
Determining best path
Leadership functions
A business’ future, or problems it may be facing, presents the leader with options. Choosing the most effective path or route is a major function of the leader. They then need to convince others to see that this is the right way forward, and in doing so get the support that they need to ensure success or solve the problem.
