Management and Leadership

Management and leadership are considered synonymous, but actually they are two different words. Management is defined as, "The art, manner or practice of managing, handling supervision or control whereas leadership is defined as, "The ability to: "express a vision, influence others to achieve results, encourage team cooperation, and be an example." Leadership is "getting others to want to do things." Leadership is intimately tied up with motivating and influencing others. Managers are administrators who write business plans, set budgets, monitor progress, solve problems and facilitate meetings. A manager achieves authority and position through experience, understanding, time and loyalty. Managers have subordinates but a leader has followers. A leader can be a manager, but a manager is not necessarily a leader. The leader of the work group may emerge informally as the choice of the group. If a manager is able to influence people to achieve the goals of the organization, without using his or her formal authority to do so, then the manager is demonstrating leadership.

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As put by Faye Wattle ton, "The only safe ship in a storm is leadership."Organizational CultureAccording to Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary -- "culture is the integrated pattern of human behavior that includes thought, speech, action, and artifacts and depends on man's capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations."Organization culture is a system of shared beliefs and values that develops within an organization and guides the behavior of its memebers .It includes routine, behaviors, norms, dominant values and a feeling or climate conveyed..The pupose and function of this culture is to help foster internal integration, bring staff members from all levels of the organization much closer together and enhance their performance.

A company's culture determines a lot of the organization's behavior. A culture may be strong (having a dramatic influence over...