153119338 Leadership
LEADERSHIP
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Introduction
Management and leadership are often thought as the something but this is not true, as we shall see in the following paragraph. Even some writers have the tendency to use leader and Manager as synonymous terms. But there are distinct differences between leaders and Manager.
A person becomes a manager through a formal appointment by some appropriate legal authority, like the General Manager of a Company is appointed by the Board of
Directors of that particular company whereas leadership position sterns from social influence process i.e is conferred by the followers thus a person can be a manager, a leader or both. A leader can be formal if someone appointed to head a group or informal – if one who emerges from the ranks according to the consensus of members. The confusion arises because we would like the manager and the leader to be the same i.e for the power to be conferred from both above and below.
We can also distinguish management and leadership as the difference of authority of position and the authority of influence
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Definition of Leadership
Leadership is one of the most difficult qualities to describe, and may be that is why there are very many difference definitions for leadership from different writers, but down are a few of these many definitions.
1) “It is perhaps the ability to get others to value your judgment sufficiently to enable them to decide to do as you ask” by Jane Allan.
2) “Leadership is the activity of influencing people to strive willingly for group objectives” by George R. Terry.
3) “Leadership is influencing people to follow in the achievement of a common goal” by Harold Koutz and Cyril O. Donnell.
4) “Leadership is defined as the process of directing and influencing the taskrelated activities of group members” by Stoner.
5) “Leadership has been described as influence, or the art, skill or process of influencing people to work towards the achievement of group, or larger organizational goals” “by David
1.0
Introduction
Management and leadership are often thought as the something but this is not true, as we shall see in the following paragraph. Even some writers have the tendency to use leader and Manager as synonymous terms. But there are distinct differences between leaders and Manager.
A person becomes a manager through a formal appointment by some appropriate legal authority, like the General Manager of a Company is appointed by the Board of
Directors of that particular company whereas leadership position sterns from social influence process i.e is conferred by the followers thus a person can be a manager, a leader or both. A leader can be formal if someone appointed to head a group or informal – if one who emerges from the ranks according to the consensus of members. The confusion arises because we would like the manager and the leader to be the same i.e for the power to be conferred from both above and below.
We can also distinguish management and leadership as the difference of authority of position and the authority of influence
2.0
Definition of Leadership
Leadership is one of the most difficult qualities to describe, and may be that is why there are very many difference definitions for leadership from different writers, but down are a few of these many definitions.
1) “It is perhaps the ability to get others to value your judgment sufficiently to enable them to decide to do as you ask” by Jane Allan.
2) “Leadership is the activity of influencing people to strive willingly for group objectives” by George R. Terry.
3) “Leadership is influencing people to follow in the achievement of a common goal” by Harold Koutz and Cyril O. Donnell.
4) “Leadership is defined as the process of directing and influencing the taskrelated activities of group members” by Stoner.
5) “Leadership has been described as influence, or the art, skill or process of influencing people to work towards the achievement of group, or larger organizational goals” “by David