Leader and Manager in Business context

 

Introduction to Leadership

       Leadership may be the most demanding human ability ever since the beginning of human kind. It is combination of mental, physical and physiological abilities, skills and knowledge. Sometimes leadership emerges randomly or naturally from persons without prior signs. Some believe leadership is a inborn gift given by nature to specific people. Well known  notion that “The leaders are born and can’t made” have been emerged  based on afore  mention sentiment and historical examples  

       More importantly Leader must have a higher level of emotional intelligence to understand different people in organization and thereby  developing positive  relationship with them, next communication and decision making skills to carry out right thing on right time.

      It can be understood that most influential leaders are emerged by combination of both genetic and environmental factors.

         Howbeit some argue it is not a theory but fact, instead leadership abilities can be ingrained within some person  by continuously being weathered to challenge situations and volatile environment. The modern business organization and other organizations such as military forces have successfully applied this method to consive leadership abilities and thence develop with in recruits.  

 Why organizations need leaders

       The leadership necessity is often associated with change. Because the humans or employees are intrinsically reluctant to change. That means they don’t like to change the pattern, routine activities and lifestyle,  what they have been used. However, owing to unavailable circumstances, the organization have to change or alter  their operations and business  activities in order to cope with the situation.

       This is the point where strong leadership necessity emerge for  reform the organization and thereby pushing  towards the appropriate direction. Sometimes it may be needed  to reform organization structure, reduce unnecessary costs, have to be familiarized to new technology or market etc. However, it must be exhaustive for some  employees and difficult. So,  leadership’s tenacity perseverance and fearlessness  is  imperative to prepare employees to accept the change.

         In modern business context, Business environment is bound to change abruptly owing to complex political situations and internal & External shock on economy. In such a scenario, Business organization's  have to acclimate to existing environmental, then they may have  to change their production or service, reduce the workforce or may be adopted new technologies etc. Hence, leader is the person who have to decide what should be done or not and what should choose and thence direct organization towards that direction.

Manager

       Manager is professional who carry out set of activities planning, organizing, leading, coordinating and controlling by behaving group of people and using resources in order to attain  organization’s goal while maintaining the organization's stability and culture.

     Hence, Manager has a broad scope to cover and have to play vital and central role for organization’s to meets its goal. So, there is a higher demand for competitive managers in the industry.  Then manager should own set of skills, abilities , knowledge and experience germane to field.

         More importantly, he or her should have higher level of conceptual ability, critical thinking and abstract reasoning abilities in order to play his role in complex and volatile business environment. In comparing to leadership, the manager should possess systematic knowledge concerning to relevant field, most often they are subject matter experts for related subject  domain.

Challenges manager face in modern business context

    Modern business industry is highly competitive and complex, risks and changes are often concomitant that stem from political uncertainty and fluctuations in economy, on the other hand influence from natural phenomena such as pandemic and droughts, Therefor,  to preserve business activity and it’s goal, the manager must be capable to oversee dozen of activities pertinent to deferent disciplines such as financial, marketing, HR etc. And have to involves  for  policy formulating in business administrative level, and have to oversee every stage of production process from designing to marketing. Sometimes, he have to intervene on some activities to influence the employee to obtain finer results.

        Therefor manager must have leadership abilities beside other subjects matter expertise, because he have to relay on other employees ( Subordinates ) to carry out managerial activities such as planning, organizing etc. He cannot do every activity himself alone. Instead, he must direct Subordinate employees to do that. So this factors demand leadership abilities from manager.

 Mediating and liaising

       One of most important part the manager have to do, is conflict resolving, conflict between different discipline  is inevitable, To carry out Production or Business activities, number of separate branches or professionals are involves engineers, marketers, financial managers, supply chain managers etc, thence collision can be taken place, as they all are working in a complex and unforeseeable environment.

          At this Juncture, manager have to intervene to situation push both person or unit to a justapoint. otherwise, it may cause to undermine organization stability and can have impact on it’s business activities. To do that, Manager should possess problem solving abilities and  emotional intelligence & negotiating skills.

       References

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