DO THE LEADERS AND MANAGERS HAVE THE SAME ROLE?
Leadership is setting a new direction or vision for a group.
.while management controls and directs people or resources in a group according to the principles or values.
3. LEADING AND MANAGING:
Leading is defined as the process of influencing
people so that they will contribute to
organisation and group goals.
Managing requires the creation and
maintenance of an environment in which
individuals work together In groups towards the
accomplishment of common objective.
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4. WHAT DO MANAGERS DO?
A manager is the member of organization with
the responsibility of carrying out four important
functions:
planning, organizing, leading and controlling.
All managers are not leaders, some mangers
have poor leadership qualities. And the
employees are inspired by the leader.
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5. A manger’s chief focus is to meet organizational
goals and objectives.
And managers have the authority and the
privilege to promote, hire, fire ,discipline or
reward employees based on their performance
and behaviour.
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6. WHAT DO LEADERS DO?
Leaders are followed based on their personality,
behaviour and beliefs. Leader personally invests
in tasks and projects and demonstrates a
passion on work.
Leaders take a great deal of interest in the
success of their followers and help them to
reach their goals.
Leadership works on the inspiration and trust
among the employees. leadership is creative,
visionary, adoptive and agile 6
7. TRAITS OF A MANGER:
1. The ability to execute a vision: Managers build a
strategic vision and break it down into a
roadmap for their team to follow.
2. The ability to direct: Managers are responsible
for day to day efforts while reviewing necessary
resources and needs
3. Process management: Authority to establish
workrules,process and standards
4. People focussed: Listening ,involving the
employees in key decisions and accommodating
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8. TRAITS OF LEADERS:
Vision: Leader knows where to stand, where
they want to go and make the team in charting
future path and direction.
Honesty and integrity : leaders have people who
believe them and walk by their side down the
path the leader set.
Inspiration: Help the team to understand their
own roles in bigger context .
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9. Communication skills: Leaders always keep
their team informed about what’s happening
,both present and future along with the
obstacles in their way.
Ability to challenge: Leaders have their own
way style of doing things in problem solving.
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10. DIFFERENCES IN LEADING AND MANAGING
A leader invents or innovates while
manger organizes.
Leader of the team comes up with the new ideas
and shift the organization to higher level. and
leader has immense knowledge of current
trends and skillset.
Manager is someone who generally only
maintains what is already established. Manager
control the employees and workflows in the
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11. A manager relies on control whereas a
leader inspires trust
A leader is a person who pushes employees to do
their best and set an way to reach the goal.
Managers are required by their job description by
establishing control over employees which
develop their own assets to bring the best.
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12. A leader asks the questions “what” and
“why” whereas a manager leans more to
the question “how” and “when”.
Good leadership requires a good judgement. If a
company goes through a rough patch a leader who
stands and asks “what did we learn from this”?
Mangers are persons will not analyze failures their job
description is to ask the questions “How” and
“when”, so this helps employees to make sure that
the plans are properly executed.
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