The visionary quality of a leader is another qualification that comes as a strong preference of followers. They want a leader who has the capacity in delineating plans to achieve organizational goals and objectives. This is leadership direction. This also translates to the leader’s concern for the organization. The people interpret this as a leader [...]

Conflict is a given reality in any organization. So long as there is an organization of human beings, there will always be conflict. This is because any organization has a diversity of individuals. There are Conflict Management Strategies that can be used when in conflict situations.
Some managers use ‘Forcing.’ This seems to augur well with [...]

The matter of diversity such as gender or ethnic diversity is a palpable reality in any human organization. The group almost always has to deal with cultural differences among its members. Experts argue that in order for management and organizations to benefit from the inescapable certainty of diversity, workgroups must find effective means to integrate [...]

In ‘Managing through the kaleidoscope: Diverse perspectives on conflict and decision making in organizations’ in the Journal of Business and Management 2000, Michael A. Gross speaks of the notion that managers and decision-makers face a multitude of complex organizational and managerial challenges.
If we look at this special issue as a contribution to the dialogue on [...]

The debate over leadership versus management will not help organizations as this debate only produces useless stereotypes. Leadership and management are both important, but they seek to do different things. Management has the inherent implication that if the organization is doing well, little or no change is needed. However, the business environments today have become [...]

Managers have subordinates that they can pass on and delegate a breakdown of the main tasks to. They also have authority to carry out the goals of the organization in either an authoritarian way where the subordinates can act as robots or in a transactional way where he makes sure that following orders has its [...]

Managers manage organizational resources, timelines, and logistics. Leaders influence people and sway their attitudes and behavior towards what will make the organization more efficient and effective. Managers take on the job that mandates and necessitates planning, organizing, control, coordination, directing, budgeting, strategizing, making decisions, and solving problems. On the other hand, leaders are known more [...]