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     Leaders are Managers, But Managers are Not Necessarily Leaders

         Who is a leader?

Leaders are the individuals who inspire follower to reach a shared accomplishment. Leaders lead their followers to achieve common goals and objectives and along with the followers’ goals and objectives. They emphasize different skills and styles to achieve their vision. Leaders emphasize a greater level of integrity to have followers around them (Benson, 2003). They think out of box, create new strategies to improve the status quo, get followers’ collaboration for decision making, motivate followers and working with followers until achieving goals(Armstrong, 2009).

Who is a manager?

Manager is an individual who direct subordinates grounded on their position and he provides command and mentoring their subordinates to accomplish organization goals and objectives. Managers try to manage the status quo and less preference for innovations. Managers always work within the frame of organization process. They have narrow minded thinking patterns and try to achieve organizational goals by exerting their formal power (Kubicek, 2011).

  

Why leaders are managers?

    Leader works collectively with followers until they achieve goals.

    Leader is proactive for potential risks and challenges

    Leader finds knowledge and make logical decisions.

    Leader is a good communicator and always try to develop followers.

    Leader manages the followers through managerial skills along with  their personality, intellect, maturity, and experience.


    Leader can effortlessly earn respect and confidence from followers.

    The leader is human-centered and handle followers’ problems with great care and attention (Appelbaum & Pease, 2001; Mubarak & Yusoff, 2019).

 

Why managers are not necessarily leaders?

It is crucial to determine the facts behind the differentiation of leaders from managers. A managers’ task and duties are limited to their positional framework. Manager works according to the organization process and procedures. They are narrow mined with the organizational framework. However, leaders are out of box thinkers. Mangers have a formal authority to manage subordinates and anyone can be a leader with their competencies and follower acceptance (Benson, 2003). However, managers can be developed as leaders through proper training and development (Armstrong, 2009). Accordingly, leaders are managers, but managers are not necessarily leaders.

 

 


References

 

Appelbaum, L. & Paese, M., 2001. What senior leaders do: The nine roles of strategic leadership. White Paper, pp. 1-9. 

Armstrong, M., 2009. Armstrong's Handbook of Management and Leadership. 2nd ed. s.l.:Kogan Page. 

Benson,S.,2003.TheFabricator.[Online]Availableat:https://www.thefabricator.com/thefabricator/article/shopmanagement/managers-are-not-necessarily-leaders [Accessed 24 October 2021].

 

Kubicek, J., 2011. Leadership is Dead: How Influence is Reviving it. New York: Horward. 
 
Mubarak, M. F. & Yusoff, W. F. W., 2019. IMPACT OF STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP ON STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION. British Journal of Management and Marketing Studies, 2(1), pp. 32-43.
 


 

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