The role of leadership and management on employee productivity and sustainability at Detpak Packaging South Africa

Abstract

Abstract: Different people use leadership and management in contrast. While some use them as synonymous terms, others consider the two to be completely distinctive words. The research purpose is to distinguish and evaluate major roles of leadership and management, the sorts of aptitude for the leader and the manager, analyze the comparison between leadership and management and identify the contribution of managers and leaders to staff of the organization. The indispensable matter as a result is organizations essential need to acknowledge whether there is a particular characteristic that individuals who give leadership and management need in the event that they are to prevail in that role. In relation, different conduct in interacting with management and leadership allows the authoritative individuals to also be rational in general. In degree to the status of the circumstances of individuals in the organizational progression, specialists and influencers are distributed to official positions. A quantitative research approach is selected to learn how the roles could adequately contribute to building a continuously enhanced organization. This research helps to comprehend how leadership and management function can be the tool needed to build an efficient organization. The population in the study comprised of the considerable 115 of employees from a company called Detpak Packaging South Africa. The study focused on staff in every one of the departments in the organization and the study is only limited to Detpak employees. This study has chosen employees to assess the role that leaders and managers of Detpak portray towards employee productivity and sustainability. The questionnaire was designed commonly; an inquiry about the subject was shadowed through by additional detailed questions, which were highly related to what previous discussions and prior observations of the kind of role that managers and leaders portray to the employees. The initial findings revealed that management and leadership are two extremely distinctive roles...M.Tech. (Quality and Operations Management