The Differences of Leadership & Management
The
leadership and managerial qualities of managers required to achieve the goal of an organization successfully. Therefore the
leadership & management development programs provide for managers are essential
by the organization. They form an energetic component in career planning
and career management activities in association with talent management.
The nature of Leadership and
management
The
leadership involves management and management involves leadership. Consequently, it may be difficult to discover differences between leadership &
Management. There is some consent on the important nature of both and the
skills involved, as set out below, but there is more difference in which is the
most important.
Leadership
As
defined by Dixon (1994: 214):’ Leadership is no more than exercising such an
influence upon others that they tend to act in concert towards achieving a goal
which they might not have achieved so readily had they been left to their own
devices.’
Management
Research
by Tamkin et al (2003) established
that the abilities managers needs are to empower and develop people, manage
people and performance, work across boundaries, engaging with others, working
as a member of a team, thinking differently about problems and their solutions,
develop a relationship and focus on the customer and balance technical and
generic skills.
The Differences between leadership
and management
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Name
of the commentators
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Management
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Leaders
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Bennis (1989)
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Managers as those who promote
efficiency, follow the rules and accept the status quo.
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leaders focus on challenging the rules
and promoting effectiveness
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Kotter (1991)
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Managers as being the ones who plan,
budget, organize and control.
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leaders set direction, manage change
and motivate people
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Birkinshaw (2010: 23)
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Management is the act of getting
people together to accomplish desired goals.
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Leadership is a process of social
influence, concerned with the traits, styles, and behaviors of individuals
that cause others to follow them.
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Herssey and Blanchard (1998)
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Management merely consists of leadership
applied to business situations; or in other words, management forms a sub-set
of the broader process of leadership.
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Table
1 – The differences between Management & Leadership
Conclusion
As
per the Birkinshaw (2010: 23), to put simply, we all need to be both leaders
and managers. Burgoyne (2010: 42)
observed that: ‘Management and leadership are needed and need to work closely
together, often through the same person or team’. Therefore ‘Let’s stop the
dysfunctional separation of leadership from management. We all know that
managers who don’t lead are boring, dispiriting. Well, leaders who don’t manage
are distant, disconnected’ by Earlier, Mintzberg (2004:22).
Reference/Bibliography
Armstrong, M. (2012) Armstrong’s
Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice, 12th edition
Birkinsaw, J
(2010) An experiment in reinvention, people
management, 15 July, pp 22-4
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