Need of Efficient & Effective Leadership and Management for successful organization, business or company
Efficient and Effective Leadership and Management are the main and primary drives for growth, development, innovation and integrity of successful organization, Business or company as well as essential to a functioning society well. As both efficiency and effectiveness are desirable characteristic, depending on the situation and both can be used if manager and leader work together. Leaders and managers must have clear idea of organization’s vision, mission, goal and objectives, strategy, policy, program and procedures along with the organizational structure, culture, system and function etc. Efficient indicates the ratio of output to input, doing things in the right manner while effective denotes the extent to which the output requirements are actually achieved and emphasis on doing the right things. So, both leadership and management are more value and important function. Since, Leaders provide guidance, inspiration, dedication and motivation when achieving goals, they help to create a vision and rally people around a common cause. Leaders have to possess the necessary skills and knowledge for proper decisions and solve problems effectively. Simultaneously, management may be responsible for implementing tactics and organizing the actions that moves a business toward its goals while its leadership that sets its goal.
Leader determines organization’s vision, goals and direction while managers handle the nuts of charting the cause to get there. Without strong efficient and effective leadership, achieving success on both individual and organizational level would be difficult. Therefore, healthy efficient and effective leadership and management are essential for a successful organization to reach its full potential. Efficient and effective leaders are task oriented, impulsive and project center focusing on productivity in various layers such as motivation, teamwork, communication and objectives as well as encouraging innovation and creativity to reach desired goals. They not only guide but identifies, understands and communicate the organization’s vision to motivate others and support them to achieve the goals and objectives. During the designing and implementation of project or work, it is the leader who ensures all team members understand their roles and provides an enabling environment to help them perform at their best. Successful leaders are both efficient and effective who balance personal interest with organizational objectives activities. Effective Leadership is the leader’s ability to effectively influence the followers and other organizational stakeholders to accomplish the goal of the organization.
The qualities of a leader and a manager may sound similar, but each serves a distinct purpose within a various organization. Many of the skills and traits of leadership and management overlap and used skill set vary across those two roles in different outcomes. For example, of interpersonal skills, a charismatic leader uses their interpersonal skills to inspire and motivate the employees, but manager tends to complete specific tasks and objectives. An organization’s success significantly depends upon the leadership abilities of the managers. Those in the top position who want to competently lead employees need leadership qualities which are as follows: –
1. Motivation
2. Communication
3. Readiness to take on and give up responsibilities to others.
4. Flexibility
5. Set goals and expectations
6. Set a good example as role models.
7. Recognize and foster potential
8. Self-reflection
9. Authenticity
10. Tolerate mistakes
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way. There are few reasons why efficient and effective leadership and management are important, which are as follows: –
| 1 | Creates a better work environment | 2 | Increases productivity |
| 3 | Improves communication | 4 | Motivate employees |
| 5 | Increase efficiency | 6 | Sets a good example for others |
| 7 | Inspires hard work | 8 | Decrease mistakes |
| 9 | Conflict resolution | 10 | Delegation |
| 11 | Creativity | 12 | Critical thinking |
| 13 | Best decision making | 14 | Empower people |
| 15 | Inspires people | 16 | Shared vision |
| 17 | Lead change | 18 | Forward looking |
| 19 | Competent | 20 | Honest |
| 21 | Emotional intelligence | 22 | Problem solving |
However, leadership is the ability of an individual to influence, motivate and enable others to contribute to the organization’s success while the role of management is to control a group or group of individuals in order to achieve specified objectives. They are two distinct roles which require different skills to achieve success. Hence, manager administers the ideas of the leader. Leadership and management are both critical to an organization. The scope and roles of each can vary depending on organization or business size. It is not uncommon for an organization or business to have managers who are leaders and leaders who are not in a management position. A great effective leader may be influential and have fantastic new ideas, but may not be so adoptable at managing the many ongoing details involved with getting a project done. Leadership is more about inspiring, motivating and innovating but great effective managers may not have larger spheres of influence, but they can be masterful at running projects or work and getting things done. They know how to plan, organize and coordinate when a complex project to undertake. So a smart manager knows how to execute those works.
Many roles that use in leadership and management skill sets in the workplace are as follows: –
| S.N | Leadership Roles: | Managerial Roles: |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Establish a vision | Interprets the vision |
| 2. | Identifies organization culture | Endorses the organization culture |
| 3. | Determines the direction | Navigates the course |
| 4. | Strategic thinking | Tactical thinking |
| 5. | Drives change | Implement changes |
| 6. | Defines a sense of purpose | Support sense of purpose |
| 7. | Develop the leaders | Develops necessary talents |
| 8. | Seeks expert insight for decision making | Assigns specific tasks. |
It is found that almost efficient and effective or good managers are always efficient and effective or good leaders. Management and leadership skills are often used interchangeably as they both involve planning, decision making, communication, delegation, problem solving and time management etc. Human Resource Management is the strategic and coherent approach to the efficient and effective management of people in an organization. However, Human Resource Management is the process of managing people in an organization in a structural and through manner to achieve better performance through employee relation and personal management. It is about optimizing organization ‘s performance through better management of human resources conducting by planning, organizing, directing, controlling of procurement, development, compensation, integration, maintenance and separation etc.
Recognizing and nurturing leadership and management traits across all our employees can help our business be more resilient and adaptable, all while providing staff opportunities to grow and develop in their roles. Human Resource consulting and human capital management services can provide the perspectives and resources as we need to take advantages of the business benefits from leadership and management development. Leadership and management trainings, interactions and workshops can also teach the additional skills as we need to lead efficient and effectively. Efficient and effective or good leader and manager having appropriate skills sets increase the efficiency and productivity of many business processes, inciting organizational growth and development in any business environment or organization. Hence, efficient and effective success, development and growth of an organization / business/ company greatly depends upon the efficient and effective leadership and management.
Mrs. Minoo Amatya Piya
Executive Chairman
NPL Social Welfare Organization