Management vs. Leadership

There isn't a big difference between management and leadership is styles.  The many types of management styles often coincide with leadership styles.
A Paternalistic style of management is when the leaders decide what's best for the employees and for the organization, policies are devised to benefit the employees and the organization; the suggestions and feedback of the subordinates are taken into consideration before deciding something.
In leadership, House’s path-goal theory states that the leader’s job is to ensure that employees view their effort as leading to performance, and to increase the belief that performance would be rewarded.  I believe that leadership, however, can be more effective in an organizational setting by implementing Vroom and Yetton’s Normative Decision Model styles of leadership.  Using that model which includes these steps:  Decide, Consult Individually, Consult as a group, Facilitate, and Delegate, will ensure that your company provides an excellent organizational setting for your place of employment.

Forum 4 Blog - Decisions

Forum 4 - Blog Decisions



Decision making refers to making choices among alternative courses of action—which may also include inaction.  There are 4 key components when it comes to decision making.  The four components are  Rational, Bounded Rationality, Intuitive, and Creative.  You can use one or more of these key components your first stage during a decision-making process. The process of making a decision based on ones' personal feelings becomes a factor as well.

 Deciding if I would turn in my school work on time or procrastinate became a decision that I made.  I used every rationale possible to justify my actions but to no avail, all roads led to being punctual.  My intuitive mind was perplexed as I sat aimlessly in front of the computer, and then the television.  Task avoidance became more apparent as the day became night.  Many thoughts of anxiety crossed my mind as I still sat front and center of my TV.  My criteria for my decisions weighed heavily on my mind.  Should keep on watching TV? or finish and turn in all of my assignments on the day they were due?  My choices were receiving a bad grade or completing my homework in a timely manner.  Only one of those alternatives were good.

I finally made my decision to complete my assignments and turn them on time.  What a euphoric feeling when I finally made my decision to meet my deadline that was at hand.  In hindsight, I am happy with my decision that I made.  Procrastination is never a wise decision, it will come back to haunt you someday.

What is motivation? Motivation can be described as "the intention of achieving a goal, leading to goal-directed behavior."

The motivation theory that I find to be most useful in explaining why people behave in certain way is,  Maslow's Hierarchy of needs.  According the the text found in chapter 11; Maslow's theory is described as, human needs into physiological, safety, social, esteem and self-actualization.  The way peoples behavior coincide with this theory comes naturally by human nature.  We each have a desire to feel needed and wanted by nature but we all aren't born with social skills or self esteem.  I believe those characteristics come with experience as life's teacher.  So I do agree with Maslow's theory because we all are human and have those needs of safety, social, and self-actualization when it comes to working on a job, or in life.