Management Vs Leadership

Management and Leadership are two of the most important positions to have for anyone in an organization. Both of these positions come with a great deal of responsibilities; however, they both serve two different purposes and responsibilities in an organization, along with a different sent of guidelines. This paper will differentiate between Leadership and Management, give two recommendations to create and maintain a healthy organizational culture and give two examples to support the recommendations. Discussing Leadership is a wonderful quality for anyone to have because not everyone possesses leadership qualities and skills; however, a person can learn to have leadership qualities if he or she has the desire.

A good leader has many excellent qualities such as; a leader has followers, knows how to encourage the workers, can get results by implementing strategies, can create a vision for the company, and communicates the vision clearly. These are not the only qualities a leader must have but they are some of the most important qualities a individual must have in order to be successful in a leadership position. “The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.?” (Roosevelt, Theodore).

People have varied concepts or an indirect perplexity about leading and managing. In many circumstances, the terms are interchangeably used to mean the same thing. The difference between leading and managing and somehow this must now be clearly defined. Several management theorists attempted to make a clear distinction between leadership and management. According to some, managers do the right things while leaders do things right (Bennis, 1991). This means that the manager’s responsibility lays in efficiently guarding the company policies and physical resources while leaders are more concerned with guiding and giving inspiration to workers with a certain perspective of attaining the company’s vision. Bennis states "Management do things right, while leadership does the right thing."

In Bennis and Nanus' classic leadership book, they focus on the four key rules an individual must follow in order to have good strategy as a leader to insure the right choice is done. The first is to make sure everyone’s attention is focused on the plan at hand or the goal. Second, leaders always need to keep the line of communication open and make sure they communicate well. Third, leaders will have to trust their people and build a trust factor with the people they are working with while setting values and principles. Lastly, being a leader one will have to believe in oneself and be aware of his beliefs and have a disposition that his workers will have no problem following.

While trying to understand the challanges between management and leadership, one need to look at the difference between the functions of each of these roles. While one needs to have both managers and leaders while different in functions, they are both important in any organization. Management and leaders have a hard time