A bit of a controversial theme but in my point of view, I agree with what this topic suggests. As a general factor, leadership is followed by the management qualities.
More often, subordinates would easily count on a good leader rather than on a manager. This is because leadership behaviors focus mainly on people and people handling while management behaviors necessarily being centered on the respective manager.
If these two roles are distinguished by characteristics, a leader would think more of his/her subordinates and their development by trusting, engaging, motivating and encouraging them while managers would be focusing more on self-development through gaining feedback or having mentors.(John, 2016)
But at the same time, both the roles are important for the long term development of an organization. If a task is given to be completed, management develops the capability to achieve a plan by organizing and manning, thus creating an organizational structure and set of jobs to accomplish requirements of the plan, crewing the jobs with qualified individuals, communicating the plan to those people, entrusting responsibility to carry out the plan, and planning systems to monitor execution. In the meantime, leadership aligns people to achieve the desired outcome as per the plan by actively engaging and guiding the crew towards the desired goal by communicating the vision to the group.
As a Summery, leaders tend to gain the attention among subordinates because they consider Human Related matters actively when heading towards goals rather than managers who focus on planning, distributing relative job roles and monitoring till the required numbers are achieved. There is no doubt that one cannot perform both management and leadership skills to their maximum at the same time but both these roles are necessary for an organization to sustain its continuous improvement and to ensure its existence in the field. Both these roles are highly considered as important in the business world because Still, all most all the industries consume manpower as a resource. (Kotter, 1990)
What I suggest is one must be developed in a way that he or she can perform better as both roles in their carrier which will be a massive development in drastically changing business environment. Given these factors, it can be concluded that leaders managers are but managers are necessarily leaders.
References
1. P. Kotter, J. (2001) ‘What Leaders Real Do?’, Harvard business review, 11 December, p.3.
2. O’Leary, J. (2016) ‘Do Managers and Leaders Really do Different Things?’, Harvard business review, 20 June.
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