Management and leadership

It takes strong management and leadership skills to guide an organization to success. Management and leadership are two different concepts. "Management is the process of working with people and resources to accomplish organizational goals," (Bateman & Snell, 2004). Leading is the management function that involves the manager's efforts to stimulate high performance by employees (Bateman & Snell, 2004). I believe that management is a job description and leadership is a trait. Management is creative problem …

…up to the leaders that have the leadership abilities to act on those plans and use those processes. References: Bateman, T. & Snell. S. Management. (2004). The Competitive Landscape. The <Tab/>McGraw-Hill Companies Changing Minds. (2005). Management vs. Leadership. Retrieved December 29, 2005 <Tab/>from http://www.changingminds.org/disciplines/leadership/articles/ Wikipedia. (2005). Organizational Culture. Retrieved December 29, 2005, from <Tab/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizational_culture