Combining Management & Leadership in the Workplace

Leadership and management are necessary components of any organization, and managers who combine leadership skills with management traits offer organizations enhanced productivity and better long-term prospects than those managers who are not leaders. However, the line between leader and manager is ill defined: leaders are not necessarily good managers, and managers do not always possess leadership characteristics. Leaders provide the long-term vision for the organization, while managers possess the talent for putting that vision into concrete action and managing day-to-day activities that accomplish that action. The type of leadership that succeeds in any organization is, to some degree, determined by the organizational culture in which the company operates. Increasingly, however, organizations are demanding that their managers train in leadership so that leadership principles are applied throughout all levels of the organization. This research examines management and leadership and the effect that this new orientation of combining the two is h

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