LEADERSHIP

Leadership is an Individual or a group leader who leads their group to achieve their goals and targets set as an individual or as a organisation. Leaders are there to motivate their group and inspire them by leading them to their required targets. A leader is the main person that gives ideas and feedbacks to his or her group in an organisation. Management is a group or an individual in an organisation that illustrates and implements the policy that the employees need to follow. Management could be a department manager or a store manager or even a managing director of an organisation. The management plans to achieve goals and targets that they need to achieve as an organisation. The management also suggest new strategy’s to implement change in the organisation for the better of the company. The management is in charge of an organisation and they also show employees what needs to be done and how to do the right action correctly.

The difference between manager and a leader is that the leader is working below the manager. A manager is in charge of a whole organisation and a leader is only in charge when the manger is not physically there. If the manager implements any changes that need to be done within the organisation than the leader has to follow. A leader is a person that people follow with their own choice whereas the manger has to be obeyed. A manger has skills and experience behind him and a leader has no skills or any organisation but has employees behind him to listen to his command. A manager and a leader are two different people with two different statuses within an organisation. They both have different ways on how the organise the employees.

The management grid which was developed by Blake and Mouton is a grid that most managements and leader in an organisation use. A great example I am using is Jarvis Hotel’s. I am using this example because last year I have worked for them in their head office which is located in High Wycombe. The leadership style they have used according to the management grid of Blake and Moulton would be concerned for the production and concern for the team. This organisation would be best suited on that place on the grid because all the time I was there they were working well as a team and where meeting their targets that they have set for each individual hotel that they have. They where also where concentrating on each and every individual hotel that they own so that they could see what was going well and what was not going so well. They where using the management leadership style but was a bit different from any other type of organisation because the managing director of the organisation was a bit more relaxed and trusted his team to achieve the targets he had set. He was so sure of his team that he only comes into the office 2 times a week just to check his appointments and only comes in for half the day. The management style they use there is one of the best that I have ever worked in you would get breaks when ever you want but the honest thing is that you would enjoy working there because of the atmosphere and the people that work there are so friendly and kind and caring which makes a huge difference.

Below is a diagram of the Blake and Mouton’s managerial grid:

An article that I have found online that discusses a great leadership style of sir Richard Branson, the great chairman of the virgin media corporation. In this article they talk about how he leads his multi billion empire and talks about how it is to be and become a good leader. The article also tells us how he treats his employees and how he motivates them to achieve their goals. The article says his leadership style is a good but he doesn’t hold board meetings and does not know how to operate a computer.
To find out more on this article I have put a Link below:

http://www.evancarmichael.com/Famous-Entrepreneurs/592/Lesson-1-Be-A-Good-Leader.html

Overall I believe that the topic was very use full and I have generated a lot form this such as finding out the difference between a leadership and management roles as well as how different organisation use each roles to achieve their targets. I also found out new facts about the leadership such as the Blake and Moulton managerial grid which I did not know about before and never seen before. I believe that this was a great topic and was worth doing.