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Leadership Versus Management

Leadership Development:
Allio, Robert J. (2005). Teaching versus learning Management Decision, Vol. 43, Issue: 7-8 pp. 1071-1077
The purpose of the article is to elucidate the limitations of contemporary approaches to developing leaders to present alternative approaches.
Companies send their people to schools and seminars to produce better leaders. There is very little evidence that this kind of training makes a person a better leader. The author tells about how training programs can change the way people think and how they work with problems. They think these programs can change how a persons behaves. They think these classes can change leaders into top notch managers. The authors study suggests that leader’s failures come from what each individual believes he or she is required to do, not what they have been book trained and taught in a classroom to do.
I think these programs cannot teach a person to become a leader. If you take the initiative to naturally take control of a problem and help others and you also take your job very serious you can and will be a good leader and role model. Hands on experience makes a good leader along with book smarts, but on –the-job-training is the way to go.

What happened to leadership?
Kersley, Mike. (2005) Vol. 37, Issue: 5, Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. 37, pp. 264-267.
The purpose of this paper is to provide a summary of ideas with regard to leadership and management with the author’s interpretation of these and some of the issues these raise.
There use to be implemented programs to develop new leaders, now there are not as many corporations using this. The reason the author thinks this way is because of the difference between a leader and a manager. A manager’s position seems to be that of a person who sets the rules for others to follow. A manager takes control of a process that has been put in place and expects his followers to do the procedure as written in the process. The...