Understanding management, leadership and decision making

Managers:

• Set objectives
• Analyse data or information
• Lead staff
• Make decisions
• Review decisions
• Review decisions and outcomes to consider the need for adjustment

Managers vs Leaders

• Managers direct vs leaders help
• Managers are risk averse- avoid them vs leaders look for opportunities and will break conventions to take advantage of a percieved opportunity
• Management skills can be seen as a subset of leadership skills
• Leaders have visions vs managers implement a leader's vision

Leadership styles:

• Autocratic/authoritarian- tells other people what they want. Tells them what to do. A dictator. Not interested in listening. Have a view and opinion on what should happen and try to enforce that. Some- persuasive (tell and sell), some- this is the only way (tell). Have all the power and control.
• Laissez-faire- ‘leave alone’. Trusts their employees to know how to do the job and be motivated, don’t need to be managed.
• Democratic- opposite of autocratic. Allows the majority view to decide what will happen- a vote. Ask for opinions. About having a cohesive group. Sometimes seen as weak as they’re not opinionated.
• Maternal- motherly. Interested in emotions/feelings. Nurturing. Take an interest in people as people. How they feel, support them. 
• Paternal- fatherly. Observes, consult/listen, makes a decision on the best interest of the workers.
• Consultative- between autocratic and democratic. Listens and asks for opinions and ideas, but…