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Management and Leadership It takes strong management and leadership skills to guide an organization to success. Management and leadership are two different concepts. "Management is the process of working with people and resources to accomplish organizational goals," (Bateman & Snell, 2004). Leading is the management function that involves the manager's efforts to stimulate high performance by employees (Bateman & Snell, 2004). I believe that management is a job description and leadership is a trait. Management is creative problem solving. This creative problem solving is accomplished through the four functions of management: planning, organizing, leading and controlling. These functions help plan, organize, lead and control the resources that an organization has. When a management team uses the planning functions they are laying down the goals and the direction that they need to take to achieve those goals. It is during the planning function, that rules and procedures are implemented for the workforce to...

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