LEADERSHIP - THE LINKS BETWEEN MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP

LEADERSHIP

Leadership – the ability to inspire confidence and support among the people who are needed to achieve organizational goals.

1. THE LINKS BETWEEN MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP

Difference between Leadership and Management

Three representative distinctions between leadership and management:

· Management is more formal and scientific than leadership. It relies on universal skills such as planning, budgeting, and controlling. Management is a set of explicit tools and techniques based on reasoning and testing that can be used in a variety of situations.

· Leadership involves having visions of what the organization can become. Leadership requires eliciting cooperation and teamwork from a large network of people and keeping the key people in that network motivated, using every manner of persuasion.

· Managing focuses on continuous improvement of the status quo, whereas leadership is a force for change that compels a group to innovate and depart from routine. Leadership requires having a vision.

Effective leadership and management are both required in the modern workplace, to be an effective leader, one must also be an effective manager. Managers must be leaders, but leaders must also be good managers.

The Links between Management and Leadership

Management and leadership are both applied to improve productivity and morale.