Management and Leadership are two of the most important positions to have for anyone in
an organization. Both of these positions come with a great deal of responsibilities;
however, they both serve two different purposes and responsibilities in an organization,
along with a different sent of guidelines. This paper will differentiate between Leadership
and Management, give two recommendations to create and maintain a healthy
organizational culture and give two examples to support the recommendations. Discussing
Leadership is a wonderful quality for anyone to have because not everyone possesses
leadership qualities and skills; however, a person can learn to have leadership qualities if
he or she has the desire.
A good leader has many excellent qualities such as; a leader has followers, knows how to
encourage the workers, can get results by implementing strategies, can create a vision for
the company, and communicates the vision clearly. These are not the only qualities a leader
must have but they are some of the most important qualities a individual must have in
order to be successful in a leadership position. “The best executive is the one who has
sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done and self-restraint to keep from
meddling with them while they do it.?”“ (Roosevelt, Theodore).
People have varied concepts or an indirect perplexity about leading and managing. In
many circumstances, the terms are interchangeably used to mean the same thing. The
difference between leading and managing and somehow this must now be clearly defined.
Several management theorists attempted to make a clear distinction between leadership