Maduka - Leadership and Strategic Managemengt

The leadership and managerial qualities of managers required to achieve the goal of an organization successfully.  Therefore the leadership & management development programs provide for managers are essential by the organization. They form an energetic component in career planning and career management activities in association with talent management. The nature of Leadership and management The leadership involves management and management involves leadership. Consequently, it may be difficult to discover differences between leadership & Management. There is some consent on the important nature of both and the skills involved, as set out below, but there is more difference in which is the most important. Leadership As defined by Dixon (1994: 214):’ Leadership is no more than exercising such an influence upon others that they tend to act in concert towards achieving a goal which they might not have achieved so readily had they been left to their own dev...

Introduction Management development is concerned with improving the performance of managers in their present roles, preparing them to take on greater responsibilities in the future and also developing their leadership skills. The organization can produce, mainly from within, a supply of managers better equipped for their jobs at all levels are the objective of management development. It was defined by Baldwin and Patgett (1994), quoted by Peters (2010:28), as ‘A complex process by which individuals learn to perform effectively in a management role’. There are two policies involved in management development named Formal & Informal approaches. Formal Approaches to Management Development Consist of process and events that are planned and provided by the organization are the Formal approaches to management development.  The identification of development needs should be based on this approach. This can be done systematically at development centers for producing...