Leadership and management
1. Leadership is more concerned with people than is management. Do you agree?
I firmly believe that leadership demonstrates more concerns about people than management does. Firstly, according to the definition of leadership and management, stated by Daft (2011), leadership is concerned as mutual relationship between superiors and subordinates who desire substantive changes that reflect the purposes leaders and followers acquire. On the other hand, management is perceived as effective and efficient process across organization in order to achieve company’s goals. Obviously, based on their definitions, we can clearly state that whereas management heavily focuses on controlling all organization’s activities from bottom line as well as focusing on tasks and procedure, the facets of humanity such as trust, behavior, inspiration, and attitude tend to be involved more in leadership. Secondly, in term of relationship, a manager creates his relationship with others through position within company and forces them to perform task based on reward and punishment systems. Leadership, on the other side, is more concerned with people as it values “personal influence” in creating relationship among leaders and followers (Daft, 2011).
2. Why is leadership considered both an art and a science?
For the art aspect: many people who achieve comprehensive knowledge about leadership concepts may not become effective leader because when applying leadership theory into real life, there is no fixed or single solution for particular problems. This depends on how individuals interpret the situation and how they perceive their leadership type. Moreover, in order to become effective leader, people have to take practices in real experience instead of just reading from text books.
For the science aspect: there are tremendous reliable scientific researches that describe common traits and behaviors among effective leaders as well as how leadership affects to outcomes of organization. Through
I firmly believe that leadership demonstrates more concerns about people than management does. Firstly, according to the definition of leadership and management, stated by Daft (2011), leadership is concerned as mutual relationship between superiors and subordinates who desire substantive changes that reflect the purposes leaders and followers acquire. On the other hand, management is perceived as effective and efficient process across organization in order to achieve company’s goals. Obviously, based on their definitions, we can clearly state that whereas management heavily focuses on controlling all organization’s activities from bottom line as well as focusing on tasks and procedure, the facets of humanity such as trust, behavior, inspiration, and attitude tend to be involved more in leadership. Secondly, in term of relationship, a manager creates his relationship with others through position within company and forces them to perform task based on reward and punishment systems. Leadership, on the other side, is more concerned with people as it values “personal influence” in creating relationship among leaders and followers (Daft, 2011).
2. Why is leadership considered both an art and a science?
For the art aspect: many people who achieve comprehensive knowledge about leadership concepts may not become effective leader because when applying leadership theory into real life, there is no fixed or single solution for particular problems. This depends on how individuals interpret the situation and how they perceive their leadership type. Moreover, in order to become effective leader, people have to take practices in real experience instead of just reading from text books.
For the science aspect: there are tremendous reliable scientific researches that describe common traits and behaviors among effective leaders as well as how leadership affects to outcomes of organization. Through