Management and Leadership Paper

Management and Leadership Paper

University of Phoenix

MGT/330

August 2, 2010

Todd Lambertson

Management and Leadership Paper

Toyota.com (n.d.) informed that the Toyota’s mission statement is “To attract and attain customers with high-valued products and services and the most satisfying ownership experience in America.” In addition, the Toyota’s vision statement is “To be the most successful and respected car company in America." To reach their mission and vision Toyota needs good management and leadership teams. Some people believe that managers need to be leaders and leaders need to be managers.

However, Bateman and Snell (2009) mentioned that effective managers not need to be leaders, and leaders are not necessarily managers. This paper will show the differences between management and leadership, and managers and leaders’ roles and responsibilities to play in creating and maintaining a healthy organizational culture. Furthermore, this paper will show the impact of globalization and management across borders and recommendations of strategies that managers and leaders can use to create and maintain a healthy organizational culture.

Differences between management and leadership

Changing Minds.org (2002) mentioned that managers have subordinates and leaders have followers. In addition, Maccoby (2000) described management as a function and leadership as a relationship. Maccoby (2000) mentioned that managers usually do the planning, budgeting, evaluating, and facilitating, and leaders do the guiding, motivating, coaching, and building trust. In some companies managers will give an order expecting employees to follow. In contrast, leaders will give the order at the same time they guide, motivate, and influence others to achieve the goal. Even though it is a difference between management and leadership, some companies encourage their management team to be leaders and their leaders to become managers.

Liker (2004) mentioned that Toyota is one of those...