Benefits of Leadership and Motivational Management

Abstract

The main issue of the management vs. leadership discussion refers to obtaining and practising power. This refers to the use of power levers, efficiency of the capacity to influence decision implementing, actions and comportments of all the organizational components, according to the initial clearly defined conception and the will of fulfilling the desideratum imposed by this conception. The article refers to the sources of power, and focuses on this dimension of leadership intending to discuss the management-leadership relation. As the organizations have become centres of initiative of modern economy, each high qualification employee has to act as an entrepreneur – in modern organizations, where specialized knowledge is the main resource success can not be achieved only by the effort of few executives. Any highly-specialized professional must undertake commitments and develop own professional potential and the management of the modern organization has to be permanently aware of the professional development needs and achievements of the specialized human resource-the bearer of the knowledge. Top management has not become less important but developed new valences-managing, developing and motivating human resource of higher professional competence.
Keywords: Commitment, Creative potential, Exercising power, Human resource, Leadership, Sources of power management.