Management Vs Leadership

Companies nowadays when selecting a manager look not only for the tittles the aspirant has or his experiences, they look for specials skills that assure them that a leader lies inside him.

Managers have skills that makes them apply control of all the procedures in the organization, the employees, do thing how they are supposed to be done, but leaders skills seek to bring the best side of their followers and make change possible, they inspire trust and people admire them. When hiring a manager, the companies seek for an employee with a balance in this 2 aspects where LEADERSHIP IS A SKILL THAT MANAGERS SHOULD HAVE.

To have a more clear knowledge of the difference between this 2, i invite you to take a look at these 2 videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaoAbf9RMJw&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu1JgJARHO8

Team development is an important part of leadership, in where leaders must achieve task, manage the team and take care and lead individuals. The best way to lead a group and accomplish a process is to have an unanimous focus on a common goal, everyone must have a role with its task and know the status of the process they are developing because they count with fast and accurate communication exchange between all of the members, they continuously applied what they learned and make changes during the process development if needed. A leader should seek and motive their followers to achieve an effective and efficiency development of the team work so the company reaches it´s goal.

I invite you to take a look at this video of team development in leadership: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51IaHlC8Bl4


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Culture in Decision Making

When we are face to make a decision, many components will influence the process and will help to understand the outcome, the main one, i consider, is the cultural background you have.

Culture will affect directly the process of the decision making, according to the Hofstede´s 5 cultural dimensions, mainly 3 of them can influence such process, people will pick a solution based if they are long term orientated or short term orientated, if they want to profit from their decision in the long run or immediately; also if the culture they belong to is collectivism or individualism to know if the decision taken was chosen taking others well being into account; and if they have uncertainty avoidance to understand why they have chosen the different uncommon option or they didn't took any unknown risks and to know why they reacted in a certain way when ambiguous situations appeared.

This cultural influences may become a conflict when decisions must be taken between several responsible people with different backgrounds because the common thing is that they will not easily agree on choosing the best option as they wont have the same opinions and preferences so they need to work together, tolerate differences, learn to listen, consider other options, be open minded and try to chose that option that is best for the company´s well fare.

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LOSS OF INDIVIDUALITY - The Corporation

The Name CORPORATION refers to the fact that people and companies are legally equals. In some way, society takes the human being’s individuality away and turns it into a “not thinking” mass that is exposed and the victim is the individual itself, indeed the collectivity comes over the individuality. This phenomenon was manifested during the industrial revolution, when corporations and companies were created for the first time and got to the point of becoming into a sort of a living body in huge proportions that influences all means where the individual is present.

During 19^th century, The Corporation emerges as a legal person. It emerges as a person involved in a selfish interest that grew through the next hundred years to the point of having ascendancy with no measure or precedents.

It is impossible not to recognize the important role that companies play nowadays in a globalized era, they are essential part of the new world and have served to the world populations through the years, but it is evident that they are using this condition as a tool to exploit laborers, violate and even manipulate environmental regulations and putting themselves in a position over the man, justifying purely economic and financial aims, including power, demonstrating a lack of any moral awareness and leaving behind the welfare or social service that is supposed to come from their main activity.

The financial crisis is an evident example of the exploitation in the name of a law subject, a social being that is invisible to our eyes but touchable to people’s hands, feeling every bunch coming from it actions; companies and corporations take the individual not as a creator but as a slave, dispossessing it from its needs and making it deliver an average production that becomes almost impossible coming from a person, turning it into a cold tool and with no necessities. Men have built the corporation because they needed to grow, but this corporation is destroying them.

Nowadays, corporations are as big a many governments around the world and all the power has been canalized to submit the human being in many aspects, going from cultural to social and economic aspects.

The objective of the enterprise became into the possibility of finding a new subject to blame on, and not a flesh or bone subject, but a subject that represents the wildest side of the human being: The Corporation, that became in an animal, with no boundaries and that can violate, steal, manipulate and assassinate without feeling any kind of blame or responsibility, leaving the man essence behind that ironically became in its own victim.

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Motivate your employees

When a company is dealing with internal problems with the behavior of there employees, how can they change there attitudes?

An easy way is to motivate them, make them feel a significantly part of the company, this may change the way they do their work, relate to the company and improve the working environment, have a sense of belonging towards the company, this will assure the hard commitment to there tasks´s development.

But how to motivate your employees? Maybe the most common answer is to grant them economic retribution, but to many people, money is not everything, what makes people feel motivate depends on their culture and values. Recognize them, make them feel valuable, appreciate what they do, acknowledge them, thank them, welcome them, create a friendly environment, value what they bring to the company and make them feel important, ask them how you can help them so they can become better at what they do... with this and many other ways to motivate you can create trust and commitment of your employees and they will want to cooperate in reaching the organizational goals because for them, those will be their goals too.

I invite you to watch this short video that shows different way to motivate your employees:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4A8sFNY-jY

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Corporate Culture

Corporate culture can be change depending on the country or city the company is...as i consider that the national culture can influence the corporate one, depending on the region the company is, the employees can affect the corporate culture with the national culture as they probably were born and raise there, so the way the interacts and the way they behave will affect the organizational culture where they work in.

The company´s culture, way of getting things done, ways to relate between the employees, way they see time, money, power, relations, among other things have a lot of weight and may be similar to the culture of the owners or the region where the company started, but when they start going abroad, they can see that those cultures of the markets they are starting to penetrate can influence their organizational one, by hiring regional employees that have better knowledge about the market, can also help dealing with the cultural conflict that may appear and they will start to add some cultural aspects to the way they work and this can make others change it too.

Change is not bad, is an opportunity to try new things, by knowing and understanding other cultures, the company can try to take the best of it, minimize the cultural conflicts, relate to the market they are in and try different ways of managing and working until they find the best possible way to do it.

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