Not All Leaders Are Managers, Nor Are All Managers Leaders
Not All Leaders Are Managers, Nor Are All Managers Leaders
Not All Leaders Are Managers, Nor Are All Managers Leaders
Name:
K.A.L.P.Abeykoon
Student ID
No:2014093CL11
Advanced
Diploma Level Stage 1
For the many business, management and the leadership skills are often regarded
as one and the same. Because those two share many similar characteristics. But
the reality is where manager exist to plan, organize and coordinate and the leader
serves to inspire and motivate. There is a military saying about manager and
leader. A manager is the battlefield general while the leader is the commander-inchief
Managers
Persons whose influence on others is limited to the appointed managerial
authority of their positions to reward and punish.
Leaders
Persons who has managerial and personal power to influences a group of people
towards a specific result. It is not independent on title or formal authority.
Theories of Leadership
Considering all the facts we can come to conclusion that traits of a good leader
comes with the born qualities, Above mentioned all the traits doesnt comes with
all persons hence not all leaders are managers nor all managers are leaders.
From this theory focus on the behavioral determinates of leadership that can used
to train peoples to become leaders.
Assumption
Leaders can be made, rather than are born. Successful leadership is based in
definable, learnable behavior.
Fiedler identified the a Least Preferred Co-Worker scoring for leaders by asking
them first to think of a person with which they worked that they would like least
to work with again, and then to score the person on a range of scales between
positive factors (friendly, helpful, cheerful, etc.) and negative factors (unfriendly,
unhelpful, gloomy, etc.). A high LPC leader generally scores the other person as
positive and a low LPC leader scores them as negative.
High LPC leaders tend to have close and positive relationships and act in a
supportive way, even prioritizing the relationship before the task. Low LPC
leaders put the task first and will turn to relationships only when they are satisfied
with how the work is going.
Three factors are then identified about the leader, member and the task, as follows
Leader-Member Relations: The extent to which the leader has the support
and loyalties of followers and relations with them are friendly and
cooperative.
Task structure: The extent to which tasks are standardised, documented
and controlled.
Leader's Position-power: The extent to which the leader has authority to
assess follower performance and give reward or punishment.