LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT Leadership and Management

Leadership and Management

Introduction

What is the difference between management and leadership? It is a question that has been asked more than one time and also answered in distinct ways. The biggest distinction between managers and leaders is the way they inspire the persons who work or pursue them, and this sets the pitch for most other aspects of what they do. Many persons, by the way, are both. They have management jobs, but they recognize that you will not purchase hearts, especially to pursue them down a tough route, and so proceed as leaders too. (Isenberg, 2008)

Managers have subordinates

By delineation, managers have subordinates - unless their name is honorary and granted as assess of seniority, in which case the name is a misnomer and their power over others is other than prescribed authority.

Authoritarian, transactional style

Managers have a position of administration vested in them by the business, and their subordinates work for them and mostly manage as they are told. Management style is transactional, in that the supervisor tells the subordinate what to manage, and the subordinate does this not because they are an unseeing robot, but because they have been promised a pay (at smallest their salary) for managing so.

Work focus

Managers are paid to get things finished (they are subordinates too), often inside taut constraints of time and money. They thus routinely pass on this work focus to their subordinates. (Zaccaro, 2001)

Seek comfort

An interesting research finding about managers is that they are inclined to arrive from stable dwelling backgrounds and directed somewhat usual and snug lives.(Isenberg, 2008) This leads them to be somewhat risk-averse and they will seek to bypass confrontation where possible. In terms of persons, they usually like to run a 'happy ship'.

Leaders have followers

Leaders manage not have subordinates - at least not ...