This document discusses effective management and leadership. It begins by stating that management involves deciding what needs to be done and accomplishing goals through people. Good management requires understanding situations, making decisions, and taking direct action when needed. The purpose of management is to provide direction, facilitate change, and achieve results efficiently using available resources. Some good ways for becoming a better manager include having a clear vision, communicating expectations effectively, knowing how goals are progressing, and accepting mistakes sometimes. A good manager will be judged on both results achieved and competence demonstrated in achieving those results.

1. Profesor coordonator: Frumuşelu Mihai
UNIVERSITATEA DE ŞTIINTE AGRONOMICE
ŞI MEDICINĂ VETERINARĂ BUCUREŞTI
FACULTATEA DE MANAGEMENT INGINERIE ECONOMICĂ
ÎN AGRICULTURĂ ŞI DEZVOLTARE RURALĂ
Student: Papuc Elena-Marcela
Anul I, Grupa 8104

2. Contents
1. Introduction ............................................pag. 3
2. What management is about? ..................pag. 4
3. Purpose of management and
leadership ...............................................pag. 7
4. Good ways of becomming
a better manager ....................................pag. 8
5. Conclusion .............................................pag. 9

3. Introduction
A better manager recognize that the art of management is
something they need to learn. There are many ways of learning
how to be an effective manager. We all know that experience is
the best teacher and the time spent as a manager or a leader for
a team develops your abilityes better than any classes or books.
You can also learn from your own boss at work or from other
bosses. This can help you recognize a correct behavior for
such a possition. An inappropiate behavior fails to provide the
leadership and motivation required from good managers, which
does not deliver results.

4. What management is about?
Essentially, management is about deciding what to do and
then getting it done through people. This definition
emphasizes that people are the most important resource
available to managers. It is through this resource that all other
resources as finance, equipment, systems knowledge and
many more will be managed. However, managers are there to
achieve results.

5. To do this they have to deal with events and
eventualities. They may do this primarily through people,
but an overemphasis on the people content of
management diverts attention from the fact that in
managing events managers have to be personally
involved.

6. They manage themselves as well as other people. They
cannot delegate everything. They frequently have to rely on
their own resources to get things done. These resources
consist of experience, know-how, skill, competences and
time, all of which have to be deployed, not only in directing
and motivating people, but also in understanding situations
and issues, problem analysis and definition, decision-
making and taking direct action themselves as well as
through other people.

7. Purpose of management and leadership
The Management Standards Centre states that the key
purpose of management and leadership is to ‘provide
direction, facilitate change and achieve results through the
efficient, creative and responsible use of resources’.

8. Good ways of becoming a better manager
A good way to become a better manager is to know
where you are, where you are going, how you are going to
get there and how you will know you have arrived. You
must aim to master the present and prepare for the future
and also learn to communicate effectively, what is
happening, why it is happening, what is going to happen
and why. People that you lead must have a clear vision of
what you expect them to do and for this a good manager
must know how they are getting on and even accept
mistakes from time to time.

9. Conclusion
In my point of view as a manager and a leader you will
be judged on not only the results you have achieved but the
level of competence you have attained and applied in
getting those results. Competence is about knowledge and
skills, what people need to know and be able to do to carry
out their work well. You will also be judged on how you do
your work, how you behave in using your knowledge and
skills. The most important thing in a team is to build trust
and you as a manager don`t need to worry about being liked
because mostly you won’t be.

10. Bibliography
Michael Armstrong - How to be an even better manager,
published by Kogan Page, 2008
http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/
http://www.readersspace.com/