Management Vs. Leadership: The Real Difference

Management Vs. Leadership: The Real Difference

Managers that comprehend management theories are not born as leaders with leadership qualities or may not posses any form of leadership quality. However, leaders with leadership qualities are instinctive managers of proper management toward any task. Management is “the act or art of managing: the conducting or supervising of something ‘as a business’ (Merriam Webster, n.d., Definition 1).” Although management functions and traits are a full comprehension of occurrences and tasks, an attribute of leadership may not exist within. Leadership is “the act or instance of leading (Merriam Webster, n.d., Definition 3).”

(Patty Inglish writes a great hub defining "The Difference Between a Manager and a Leader.")

Within the organizational structure of my previous employer, our echelon’s high chief portrayed and exercised traits that made him a great leader and manager.

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Management and Leadership Quality: Ways to Influence an Organization

Management and Leadership Quality: Ways to Influence an Organization

Management and Leadership Skills are Limitless

Robbins and Judge note, “in the early part of the twentieth century, a French industrialist by the name of Henri Fayol wrote that all managers perform five management functions: They plan, organize, command, coordinate, and control. Today, we have condensed these to four: planning, organizing, leading, and controlling” (2007, Management Functions).

Skills in management and leadership are limitless; and vary based on an individual’s personality traits, or, transactional or transformational leadership styles.

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