MANAGING DIVERSE TEAMS

v Meaning In order to understand the difference between managers and leaders we need to first understand the meaning of both which is being explained below: v Difference between Leadership and Management Many managers assume that they are providing leadership to their subordinates, however, that might not be true! There is a distinct difference between leadership and management. This difference not only lies in the form of standard definitions but the way a team is managed or led by an individual . v Styles of management 1.      Autocratic Autocratic managers retain all the power and define the goals and how to achieve them. Their  decisions are communicated to employees most often in the form of orders, and subordinates are rarely given the authority to make them. There are two types of autocratic management styles:  Ø Persuasive management style : This style puts decision-making totally in the hands of managers but encourages managers ...

 CHALLENGES IN MANAGING DIVERSE TEAMS                 Organizations are complex adaptive systems. Since the environment in which they exist is constantly evolving and changing, they must keep pace with the changes. In a world that is becoming more and more complex socially, politically, and economically, the adaptation process never ends. Organizations have to work in an environment where components are sometimes so closely interconnected that changing one of them may have an unpredictable and uncontrollable effect on the other. Research shows that this complexity is the biggest challenge for today's world leaders. (Mushkudiani, Gechbaia, Gigauri & Gulua, 2020) Management in the modern environment becomes more humane and human-centred (Gigauri, 2021; Gulua, 2020A). It is also important to identify management difficulties in the context of workforce diversity and to develop ways to ensure them (Gulua, 2020B; Gigauri, 2020A). The ...