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Analysis of Leadership and Management

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 Analysis of Leadership and Management The topic of the differences between leadership and management, as well as their similarities, have been a topic of fascination for all those who study management or philosophy. The main difference between management and leadership is that leaders provide new ideas and influence the entire organization towards a new vision, while managers focus on controlling the employees and work processes within the organization and avoiding chaos(Algahtani, 2014). Besides, according to Peter’s series of theories, the primary goals of managers are achieving the specific goals of the organization, making workers more effective in achieving their goals, and managing the social impact and social responsibility of the organization in a broader social context, which can be seen to be more focused on work completion and efficiency and thus differentiated from leadership(Greenwood, 1981). Despite the many differences, leadership is strictly a branch of management,...

Managing diverse team and the challenge

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Managing diverse team and the challenge As the degree of economic globalization increases year by year, multinational corporations full of employees who came from all over the world, which urge those companies needs to embrace and utilize this diversity to create more value in terms of become more successful. Many well-known companies such as Sony, Samsung and Adidas have made good use of the changes that cultural diversity has brought to their companies. Therefore, how to manage diverse team well become a subject for every manager or leader nowadays. The theories There have been many effective theories on the management of groups with different cultural background, among which Hofstede’s cultural dimensions theory and Belbin’s team roles theory have attracted the most attention. Hofstede believes that members of every social group have a set of common behavior patterns, from the country, society to the small family and unit, which correspond to different levels of culture, including n...

The importance of ethical leadership

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  The importance of ethical leadership More and more companies fall into the ethical crisis which leads to the collapse or even bankruptcy in decades. Therefore, having an ethical leading organization is the key for enterprise to create a good corporate image and to engage employees. There are two fundamental principles that can not neglect are deontological and teleological when we discussing ethical leadership. The most significant distinction between deontological and teleological is that the deontological ethics finds out if an behavior is good or bad through inspecting the behavior itself while the teleological consider the consequence that brought by the behavior(Hasa, 2019).       Deontological and teleological The core of deontology is the Kantian categorical imperative to act only on principles that can simultaneously become universal laws in the human mind. We must act responsibly and without regard to the consequences. We can see that deontology is a kind ...