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Title: Management and Leadership
Description: Management and Leadership details About Management Leadership, Role Of Managers
Description: Management and Leadership details About Management Leadership, Role Of Managers
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Management and
Leadership
AS Business
Management
• Management refers to people who are on higher levels of hierarchy
and so are responsible for making the business decisions
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Managers
• Managers are the people who are on higher levels of hierarchy and so
are responsible for making business decision
...
Setting Objectives
2
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Controlling different activities
4
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Evaluation of workers and company performance
Setting Objectives
• Deciding upon the targets for the upcoming periods
Arranging necessary Resources
• Refers to making sure that business has adequate resources to meet
the future objectives
...
Coordinating between Department
• Making sure that all departments of the business are aware of the
bigger picture and so are working towards the same goal
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Types of Managers
1
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Managers
3
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Workers Representatives
Directors
• Directors are the shareholders with majority shares who are part of
the board of directors and so are responsible for management of the
company
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Managers
• Managers are the people who are heading a certain department
within an organization like Marketing Department or Finance
Department etc etc
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Supervisors
• Supervisors are the people who are supervising the activities related
to production
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Workers Representatives
• Workers who hold official positions in trade union that is a workers
body that represents workers demands in front of company /
employers
...
• Leadership style is set of unique attributes held by a leader who is
basically the person who has some formal authority in the
organization
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Autocratic
2
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Paternalistic
4
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• Often times there is one way communication meaning the leader is
making decisions which does not involve feedback from subordinates
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Democratic
• Unlike autocratic leadership style, democratic leaders are more
welcoming of subordinates opinions and suggestions and they prefer
2 way communication
...
• Delegation: is the process of handing the decision making power to
lower levels of management
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Paternalistic
• These leaders pretend to be very caring and supportive towards their
employees but in reality they want to keep most control in their
hands and even if they take opinions from employees they don’t
really value it thinking that employees opinions are not very
beneficial
...
Laissez Faire
• This is the leadership style where employees are given complete
freedom / authority to make their decisions because management
believes that employees are expert in their work and so they can
better decide about the work related issues
...
Pros of Autocratic Leadership Style
Cons Autocratic Leadership Style
More likely to be get work done especially with
employees who fear that there will be
consequences in case the desired performance
is not attained
...
This can be more effective strategy against
Type X workers
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Greater accountability of employees in the
sense that such managers will hold their
employees more responsible for their
performance
...
However the downside of such centralized
decision making process will be lack of
creativity and innovation in the company since
leaders are not open to new ideas and
suggestions
...
And also because there is more delegation
to juniors etc
...
However there will more creativity and
innovation in the company since
employees opinions are taken into
consideration etc
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McGregor Theory X and Theory Y
• Type X workers are the ones who do not generally like work and such
employees avoid responsibilities and so the leaders should be strict
with them to make sure that they perform on their potential
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Pros of Paternalistic leadership Style
Cons of Paternalistic leadership Style
The employees are expected to feel more
relaxed and comfortable in under such
leadership and therefore they will
perform better
...
Since the decision making is centralized so it
does not much matter that leaders are soft
and kind with their employees
...
There might be limited innovation and
creativity in such organizations because
employees’ ideas are not valued etc
...
However if the company has Type X workers
who generally avoid hard work and
responsibility then this can a serious problem
for the business
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Title: Management and Leadership
Description: Management and Leadership details About Management Leadership, Role Of Managers
Description: Management and Leadership details About Management Leadership, Role Of Managers