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Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you articulate the difference between leadership and management using the following criteria:
- Define leadership and management.
- Differentiate between leadership and management with specific examples from the text, literature, or personal example. What are some of the different leadership and management roles and what are their functions? How are these roles similar? How are they different?
- Differentiate between Trait and Process leadership with specific examples from the readings.
- Provide a rationale for your answers from the course text and at least two additional peer-reviewed sources.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
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Running Head: LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT PAPER
Leadership and Management Paper
Robert Wilson
University of Phoenix
LDR/300
August 24, 2015
Dr. Aiken
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IntroductionLeadership and Management Paper
The business industry in today’s world has become very competitive, and how an
organization adapts to situations and changes will be the determining factor whether they
succeed or not. Therefore, employees are required to perform their duties more effectively
and efficiently; while companies monitor the results and determine if the pace and
productivity is adequate. A company must have the ability to apply new information
immediately and integrate it with their plans if they want to remain competitive. Both
leadership and management have similar functions, but they are vastly different in many
ways.
Define Leadership and Management.
According to (Northhouse, 2013), Chapter 1 Leadership is defined as the process
whereby an individual influence a group of individuals to achieve a common goal. Management
is to accomplish activities and master routines. Leadership and management are concepts that
derive from different means. The way that supervisors function as leaders have an impact
on the way employees perform their duties, because of their ability to diminish retention,
and build trust.
The Roles of both leadership and management can confuse at first glance. There are
many differences between a leader and a manager. The role and the function of a leader
are that a leader wants to make a change in the company, managers, for the most part, do
not like change. A manager like the stability and consistency of the job. Leaders see a
vision as a long term goal and managers see only the objectives and tasks. Leaders are
charismatic and show the good side of the company and the managers use authority and
are not usually the good face of the company. Leaders are proactive and want to change
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before bad happens and managers are reactive and usually change due to a horrible
situation that has happened. Those are some differences that stand out as a leader and
manager.
Although, some might think that leaders and management are the same, our text tells us
otherwise. Leaders and managers can both influence others, but managers have a technical
approach to business in today times. Managers use motivation, nurturing, and are good at
fostering creative thinking. Managers direct leader to complete a task and leader direct
employee to accomplish or complete a task. As a retired Non-Commissioned Officer in the
United States Army, one have to climb the rank structure of Private and hoping to achieve
Sergeant Major. A Private has little or no power or authority over personnel, and a Sergeant
Major have power over everyone on the enlisted side of the house. Each rank in the armed
forces demonstrates leadership until you start to achieve the rank of Sergeant first class, and this
is when you start to become a Manager making sure soldiers are getting the required things
needed to maintain a happy lifestyle.
Differences of Trait and Process Leadership
Both Trait and process leadership is similar. Trait leadership is within the leader
and process leadership is where it is learned to be a leader. Trait leadership is
characteristics that are within the leader, for example, being charismatic, and extrovert,
naturally smart, and a great speaker. Process leadership is learned behavior through
interaction with other leaders. Even though leadership is something learned, some
leadership traits are within the person but also process leadership helps improve the leader
by being influenced by other leaders. According to Zaccaro, S.J. (2007, p.1). “The trait-based
perspective of leadership has a long but checkered history. Trait approaches dominated the initial
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decades of scientific leadership research. Later, they were disdained for their inability to offer
clear distinctions between leaders and non-leaders and for their failure to account for situational
variance in leadership behavior.”
Trait leadership is based more on natural characteristics of a person i.e. those that the
individual were born with or have developed naturally. On the other hand, process leadership is
based on learning i.e. someone learns to be a leader by emulating or learning from the leaders.
Trait leadership inclined to the idea that leaders are born and not made. It is either that one is a
leader or not. This approach to leadership opines that leadership is inherent in individual and not
developed. The On the other hand, process approach asserts that leaders are made and not born.
It is, therefore, possible for anyone to be a leader provided that they are willing to learn. With
trait approach, a person’s culture and believe plays an important role in determining whether one
can be a leader or not because they shape someone’s traits. On the other hand, with the process
approach, culture and belief doesn’t determine whether one can become a leader.
It is very important to know the differences in a leader and a manager, even though they
are both very similar, leadership is quite different, and management takes a lot of patience to
handle. Not all leaders are made to be managers, and not all managers are made to be leaders.
What is important is both leaders and managers know the roles to play in business and not cross
each other’s jobs, or the business will not be successful and the problems will arise to company
failure. According to Toor and George (2008, p. 63). “A leader is best when people barely know
he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him, but of a
good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, he aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it
ourselves". Management is about controlling supervising, application of skills, caretaking
and coping with prevailing circumstances". Therefore, "a manager organizes, directs, or plots
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something; a person who regulates or deploys resources; a person who manages (a department
of) a business, organization, institution, etc.; a person of an executive or supervisory function
within an organization, etc." (Toor and George 2008 p.63).
Conclusion
From the many theories that make up this paper, some theoretical and practical
issues stand out. The first and most important is the differences between leadership and
management. Leadership has a qualitative aspect that management does not have.
Management, on the other hand, has a skills component that is not necessarily an intrinsic
part of leadership. The second point is that this division between leadership and
management is to a certain extent artificial. This refers to the modern organizational
context and dynamic “adaptive” environment that way discussed above. In this
contemporary environment, management and leadership tend to coalesce. In the final
analysis, there is a lot said from the argument that leadership and management have
become so intertwined in a practical sense as to be indistinguishable. However, the stronger
argument is that the interaction between the concept of management and the concept of
leadership should not obscure or neglect their intrinsic differences.
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Reference
Hughes, R. L., Ginnett, R. C., & Curphy, G. J. (2009). Leadership: Enhancing the Lessons of
Experience (6th ed.)Retrieved from The University of Phoenix eBook Collection database
Northouse, P. (2013). Leadership Theory & Practice (6th Ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Toor, Shamas-ur-Rehman, and George Ofori. 2008. "Leadership versus Management: How They
Are Different, and Why." Leadership & Management In Engineering 8, no. 2: 61-71.
Business Source Complete, EBSCOhost (accessed August 24, 2015).
Zaccaro, S. J. (2007). Trait-based perspectives of leadership. American Psychologist, 62(1), 6
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