Leadership vs Management

1. What is Leadership?
     The act of influencing others to work  towards a goal

2. What is Management?
    The process of organizing and coordinating people within a business to reach objective goals for a company

3.  What is the difference between Leadership vs. Management?
   
   Leaders influence people to follow them and Managers have people work for them . The difference is      a matter of choice. An employee can work for a manager but not be influenced to follow them as a leader.  For example, Steve Jobs as a manger was task oriented leader and all of his employees who were managed under him didn't respect his leadership style. A successful business person should have both traits in the work force. This helps with maintaing work culture atmosphere and completing work vision and goals. 

4. What is more effective in an organizational setting?

I believe that leadership is more effective in an organizational setting because of influence. As a manager for Oakwood University LETC office,  I have learned that it is not effective to operate in a mindset of managing people but managing systems. People don't like to feel watched or micromanage. People work best off of building relationships with leaders. There is a saying that people don't care about how much you know until they know how much you care. In work settings, many managers behaviors are task oriented and less people oriented. Workers complete task for the goal but may not enjoy completing it for the manager.  Influence plays a major role in the workforce  such as a manager may need a task completed and co workers grumble and complain. However a the associate team leader can state the same task and based on the level or respect and relationship this team associate has with the employees , they will get it done with joy. The power of leadership is more effective overall than the role of management.

Organizational Management -Jhonte Dodd Decisin Making

Decision Making

Oakwood University LETC Thanksgiving Mission Trip

Define Decison Making: access or process of making decisions and

Challenges in Decsion Making:
- Challenges we had from decision Making were in lack communication. Leaders are in charge of daily tasks and sometimes one leader will make a decision without communicating it to other leaders.  This is very challenging because a student can ask for something from one leader and the leader can say yes but didn't discuss it with the other leaders who both could say no. This shows disunity in leadership and allows students to find cracks in the program.


Problems Arise from deferring decison making:
-The expectations from the mission trip was to canvass Sunday through Sunday for a week . Through out the week the students were exhausted from canvassing and ending the day at a church members house to eat. These decisions that we as leaders made to eat at someone's house every night didn't allow students to get back to the conference were we stayed on time . Since w came back late every night curfew had to be pushed back which meant staying up later and dragging or feet the next day. At the end of the week we paid for it because after Sabbath students petition to not canvass. The students enjoyed the program but felt since their free time was taken away they have a right to relax and get to school early.  As leaders we decided to let them go early to avoid the risk of leaving the mission unhappy and showing students we respect their education and time. All students have potential of leadership and didn't want to risk the relationship had we did we would loose all 15 students.