LEADERSHIP Vs MANAGEMENT

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)

                                                                

Leadership is a multidirectional influence relationship and management is a unidirectional authority relationship Rost (1991)

Difference between a Leader and a Manager

 

        

Create a vision  

                                                                                                                         Create goals

Change Agents 

                                                                                                                          Maintain the status quo

Unique                

                                                                                                                         Copy

Take risks

                                                                                                                        Control Ricks

Grow personally

                                                                                                                        Rely on existing, proven skills

Build relationship            

                                                                                                                         Build system and processes        

Coaching             

                                                                                                                         Directing

Create fans                                                                                                      Have employs