LEADERSHIP Vs MANAGEMENT
Management is the allocation of scarce resources against an
organization’s objective, the setting of priorities, the design of work and the
achievement of result.
Focusing on the creation of a common vision, is Leadership.
It means motivating people to contribute to the vision and encouraging them to
align their self-interest with that of the organization.
Kotter (1996) has stated that Drivers in interest in leadership
are clearly associated with change and complexity in the business and
organizational environment. Leadership and Management are two distinctive and
complementary systems of action. Both Management and Leadership have its own
functions and characteristic activities.
People can play important leadership role in their business
organizations by encouragement, nurturing and with careful selection. Strong
management with a strong leadership is very important to the success of a
company or an organization.
As Kotter (2001) says strong leadership with week management
is no better, and is sometimes actually worse than the reverse. The real
challenge is to combined strong leadership and strong management and use each
to balance the other.
As Nourthouse (2014) has stated that if an organization has
strong management without leadership, the outcome can be stifling and
bureaucratic. If an organization has strong leadership without management the
outcome can be meaningless or misdirected change for change’s sake. To be
effective, organizations need to nourish both competent management and skilled
leadership.
Planning and budgeting is the first step to manage the
complexity of a company. Setting a direction is the way to developing a vision
of the future. Management develops the capacity to achieve its plan by
Organizing and staffing. The primary functions of management, as first
identified by Fayol (1916), were planning, organizing, staffing and
controlling.
Functions of management and leadership
Management is about seeking order and stability; leadership is about seeking adaptive and constructive change Northouse (2014)
