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The Difference between Leadership and Management

Article Category: Advice

Author Name: Cindy Jeffrey

Many researchers and commentators relate leadership and management so closely that one may mistake one for the other. Others regard leadership and management as synonymous while some others consider management as a subset of the principle of leadership. interpreting the reciprocal relationship between leadership and management means that an effective leader should demonstrate management skills. At the very least, the relationship between leadership and management could be summarized on the basis of these assumptions: management involves power by position and leadership involves power by influence. Effective leadership depends on leader's personality, characteristics, skills, or behavior. Some more radical theories propose to integrate traits, characteristics, skills, and behaviors of successful leaders to promote effective leadership. Contingency theory suggested that a leader can decide the necessary traits and behavior depending to the situation.

Either way, management cannot fully overlap with leadership. The concept of leadership is different from that of the discipline and practice of management. Moreover, we cannot really recognize which one is more important than one another because they complement each other with different sets of activities and purposes.

Management requires a wide range of skills including five functions of management: forecasting, organizing, coordinating, training, and controlling. On the other hand, leadership is exercised through the use of managerial responsibilities and competencies.

In the workplace, organizations face a complex environment because of the demands for planning, setting objectives, identifying the steps to achieve these goals, and allocating scarce resources to implement the plan. On the other hand, leadership begins by setting direction, vision, and strategies that are necessary to achieve the identified goals.

Furthermore, to accomplish these objectives, the manager starts organization and coordination within the organizational structure and work positions, hires qualified staff, communicates plans to the employees, delegates responsibilities, and monitors the implementation of the plan.

Similarly, leadership involves activities that would influence and guide people toward the right direction. The "right direction" is communicated to the people so that they can understand the vision and be committed in making this become the reality. In terms of the control function, the management ensures the accomplishment of plans and identified solutions to problems. It also identifies and removes deviation from the steps toward achieving organizational goal. On the other hand, leadership ensures transformation of the organizational vision into reality through motivating people and by increasing their enthusiasm.

In broad generalization, managers tend to concern themselves with the tasks that they need to do. On the other hand, leaders are more concerned with people. Effective leaders create and sustain competitive advantage through revenue leadership, cost leadership, market leadership, and market value leadership. The difference between a leader and a manager is that the former realizes that the achievement of tasks as a product of goodwill, support, and influence to followers while the latter attributes this to efficiency.

The difference between managers and leaders can be summarized as follows:

- A leader innovates, a manager administers
- A leader develops, a manager maintains
- A leader focuses on people, a manager focuses on systems and structures
- A leader has long range perspective, manager has short-range view
- A leader has his eye on the horizon, manager has his eyes on the bottom line
- A leader originates, manager imitates.

Keywords: strategic planning, coalition building, leadership, leadership training, advocacy, media advocacy, policy advocacy, advocacy campaigns

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