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Leadership And Management

Management and Leadership
Management 330
February 13, 2006

Abstract
Leadership and management are certainly two different traits however one person can have both qualities. In order to create a healthy organization, the manager/leader has several options at his or her disposal that will foster strong follower and trusting subordinates.

Management and Leadership
Perhaps the simplest way to differentiate between management and leadership is to say that managers have subordinates and leaders have followers. In most cases the manager is a subordinate as well. The difference there is that followers often seek out a leader and want to believe and subordinates have no choice but to follow the orders of a person of authority. There are definite qualities that distinguish between management and leadership however as we dig deeper into this subject and learn more about particular examples we will see that there are those who exhibit both.
A leader has the ability or need to foment change by leading people and encouraging them to follow him and work toward his vision. A manager has objectives and will try to create stability by managing the work of her subordinates. Managers also plan detail and have power through positional authority while leaders simply set a direction and have power through personal charisma. A leader will appeal to the heart of her followers while a manager is more practical and appeals to the practical side or the brain of his subordinates. In many cases a leader creates energy in the organization through his passion for the job at hand. The manager may derive energy through control. The ability to change is evident in both positions however the dynamic is such that the leader is more proactive and the manager is reactive. Quite often the leaders persuasive strategy will be to try to sell his theory on what needs to be done while the manager simply tells her subordinates what has to be done. Another difference is that very often what the...