Leadership vs Management

· By definition leadership is to lead, management is to manage. People are led, but tasks are managed.

· Because leadership is about moving people and things on – influencing their behaviour in a particular direction – it is not the same thing as management. Leaders are creative and innovative, looking for new solutions to old problems.

· Management may be concerned with ensuring that things remain as they are, that a plan is followed and correctly executed. Leaders see the big picture: they have the vision and commitment to make radical changes.

· However, leadership is an aspect of management. Good managers must also be leaders, but it does not follow that (natural) leaders have to be good managers. Leaders can overcome any managerial deficiencies by putting together a team that contains good managers and then lead that team.

· Management is a “job”. Managers are appointed. Their “job” involves tasks requiring logic, structure, analysis and control, e.g.: planning and budgeting, organization and staffing, monitoring and decision-making, following the rules.

· Leadership is more a quality. Leaders evolve, emerge, usually by popular choice or by necessity. Leadership involves people rather than things, e.g.: providing a sense of direction, communicating a vision, inspiring and motivating individuals, voicing the aspirations of the group, creating good teams, leading by example.

· In a modern organizational culture, management abilities and leadership qualities are often becoming fused together. The individual who managers a team to achieve a given task must also lead that team.

Task II. Work in pairs or in small groups and discuss the information given below. Be ready to present the results of your discussion to the rest of the class.

One of the approaches to leadership based on a personality theory focuses largely on the personal qualities that are thought to be desirable in leaders. They are as follows:

· intelligence should be above average

· initiative implies independence and inventiveness, the capacity to perceive a need for action and the urge to do it

· self-assurance is equal to self-confidence

· the “helicopter factor” which means to rise above the particulars of a situation and analyse it objectively in relation to the surrounding context.

1.Do you think the same characteristics can be attributed to managers? Why, why not?

2. If you hear “Go” and “Let’s go”, to whom – a leader or a boss do these words belong? Explain why.

Text 6

Read the following text, define its key words and ideas and answer the questions below.

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