Key Difference between Leadership and Management

According to the current era condition, managers are primarily superintendents—they are responsible for planning the business projects, assessing the finances and budgeting, and enhancing the business growth. While leaders, change and innovate the people of an organization. That’s accurate, but a more suitable division between management and leadership:

“Management is a function that must be exercised in any business, whereas leadership is a relationship between leader and led people that can energize an organization.”

Obviously, Handling the problems and smoothing the meeting arrangements are also inculcated into the roles of management and formal bureaucratic jobs. Though, performing all the tasks by a single person is not mandatory. Management roles can be sub divided into several people: Someone for the planning; another will handle budgeting; and third one can keep a check on quality. All the team members share duty for achieving performance targets.

A Manager vs a Leader: Key Differences

• Leaders create a vision, managers create goals.
• Leaders are change agents, managers maintain the status quo.
• Leaders are unique, manager copy.
• Leaders take risks, managers control risk.
• Leaders are in it for the long haul, managers think short-term.
• Leaders grow personally, managers rely on existing, proven skills.
• Leaders build relationships, managers build systems and processes.
• Leaders coach, managers direct.
• Leaders create fans, managers have employees.

There are several circumstances in which crews determined the division of tasks and jobs among the group, as a management role to individuals and managers for meeting the targets and improvising the performance level.

When the same choice is given to the crew of technical workforce, they might prefer a manager to handle all the formal and administrative tasks, so, they are free for some creative jobs like innovation and science stuff.

Naturally, mechanical staff, like experts in certain areas, won’t prefer to appraise or take interest in motivation or correction of colleagues. They prefer hiring a manager to perform that kind of work.

However, at the Sapphire textiles/spinning plant that assembles cotton bails for spinning purpose, there are more than 200 workers and only 5 managers, according to Production department (June. 2018). There are ten teams, each with 1 command: the day cotton bails input must be loaded before the process starts at 9 O’clock.

Crew decide the roles and divide the work adequately; they have plan for vacations, training, meetings and overtime; and handle all the work-related crews’ issues of efficiency or deficiency in work tenet. They have managers and supervisors as well to provide guideline and bureaucratic assertions for stuff, but aptly motivated through lunch meetings and social gatherings of subordinators and supervisors.

Even though no incentives other than raise based on services, specialists are inspired by the job itself, the determination for precision, and pride in delivering one of the best quality stuffed product in market. Teams also have unions and councils for dealing with employees’ issues as well as material to human resource management and stuff.

Defining the job of manager includes Attending, notifying, concentrating the workforce on costs, and representing the plant to the client and inside Sapphire. The Dilbert comic strip reminds us that in era in which the youth may have more knowledge than their seniors, technical workers may view managers as personnel who don’t comprehend technology and nonsensible demands for creating difficulty. Those staff members would be fed up with Dilbertian managers and prefer to control the administration roles and tasks.

The supervisor in the Dilbert comic strip can be a leader only when technical staff are compelled to track his instructions. Obviously, the ideal manager is a leader, who is followed by people at their will and desire. Eventually, it will strengthen the group relationship and enhance the productivity by doing the right stuff in right way as per the direction and cooperation of that leading manager.

Start-ups are mostly having an intense passion yet poor management as well as leadership to survive, leads to unplanned issues, profligacy and lost targets.

Talking about sapphire textile, they have a diverse workforce and leadership that inspires employees in such a way that they feel a continuous desire or moving forward and innovating the methods of work. Because these leaders spread away the sense that change or innovation is not just required, but a must, they inspire their workers to keep moving toward greatness and making changes to the ways in which they do business until they achieve this goal. This constant push toward changes and improvement proves motivating to many, as they don’t feel they have time to rest upon their laurels, but instead must continue their forward momentum.

References

1. Michael Maccoby (2000) The Human Side: Understanding the Difference Between Management and Leadership, Research-Technology Management, 43:1, 57-59, DOI: 10.1080/08956308.2000.11671333
2. https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamarruda/2016/11/15/9-differences-between-being-a-leader-and-a-manager/#1e5131094609
3. https://smallbusiness.chron.com/examples-leaders-motivate-workplace-20559.html   

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