Management and Leadership Paper

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Management and Leadership Paper

University of Phoenix

The difference between management and leadership is that management is concerned about structuring the organization and placing individuals in the right positions that are able to perform the functions of those duties and monitors the progress of the people’s performance. Leadership motivates the people to understand the vision of the organization and to help them to move closer to that direction, and to help them rise above what obstacles that may stump them.

Managers are responsible for being a manger and a leader all rolled up into one, but it takes an effective leader to carry out the roles. A leader has to have followers that are willing to follow the quest. The manager must be able to understand the people’s potential prior to placing them in a particular position within the organization so that there will be a good fit to the organization. The mangers that are staffing the positions want to be able to have individuals that can work on there own and be able to get along with others within the environment. The staff needs to understand the vision of the organization, and to be able to follow that quest and stay on tack, not deviate from the vision of the organization. To make sure that the staff understand the vision the leaders within the organization must be able to lead the staff to function and give the tasks to the appropriate individuals that they know could handle the tasks. New employees coming on board may be coming right out of college and have not idea what to expect. This is where the leaders have to guide and mentor those individuals and build them up to be able to perform independently.

Managers have to be able to keep control of the work environment to make sure that the organization is moving towards the direction of the vision. One way for this to take place is to be able to measure performance to make sure that the staff is not deviating from the organizations missions that bring them closer to the vision. One way for this to happen is to set up evaluations of their work performance. Every individual must be evaluated on the standard performance that was laid out by the objectives that were created, and make sure that the standards have been met continue to reach further goals on the measurements. Also to be able to control the Budget to make sure that the funds that help keep the organization afloat is there and not being misused by having Audits. The company can have an internal audit to make sure that they know where the funds are being placed and being spent appropriately.

Just recently in the Science and Technology Division (STD) that I am under there has been a budget cut seven months into the fiscal year. This came from higher commands that the budget has been severed so the Science and Technology Division decided to cut the Travel Budget because that will save the whole budget that was laid out to continue with the research and development projects. This also makes the individuals be more creative in keeping updated with their partners and customers by doing teleconferencing