Manager VS Leader

Many people think that all managers are leaders. This would be perfect if it were true. Unfortunately, it is not, and since not every manager is a leader. However, once the roles are understood, then the correct distinguishing of the manager's and leader's roles can lead to a powerful combination. Manager is someone that acheving result by effectively obtaining, deploying, utilizing and controlling all the resources required, namely people, money, information, facilities, plant and equipment. Leadership focuses on the most important resource, people. It is the process of developing and communicating a vision for the future, motivating people and gaining their commitment and engagement.  Manager stirs thoughts like planning, organizing, directing and controlling while a leader is quite a different story. A Leader help themselves and others to do the right things. They set direction, build an inspiring vision, and create something new. Yet, while leaders set the direction, they must also use management skills to guide their people to the right destination, in a smooth and efficient way.

A manager deffinied as an individual who is in charge of a certain group of task, or a certain subset of a company. According to Henri Fayol “to menage is to forecast and to plan , to organise, to command, to co-ordinate and to control”. To forecast and plan means examining the future and drawing up the plan of action. To organize means to build up the dual structure, material and human, of the undertaking. To command means maintaining activity amongst the personnel. To coordinate means bonding together, unifying and harmonizing all activity and effort. To control means seeing that everything occurs in conformity with established rule and expressed command Manager were someone who told other what to do and how to do it. Manager stick with what work, refining system, structure and proccesses to make them better.

There’s four function of management, it’s including planing, organizing, leading, and controling. That one of the functions is leadership, so many people might would think if it would be safe to assume that all managers are leaders all managers would be leaders if they effectively carry out their leadership responsibilities to communicate, motivate, inspire and encourage employees towards a higher level of productivity. However, not all managers are leaders simply because not all managers can do all of those items just listed. An employee will follow the directions of a manager for how to perform a job because they have to, but an employee will voluntarily follow the directions of a leader because they believe in who they are as a person, what they stand for and for the manner in which they are inspired by their leader. A manager becomes a manager by virtue of their position, and subordinates will follow the manager because of his or her job description and title. Because managers are responsible for carrying out the four functions of management, their primary concern is to accomplish organizational goals. Managers get paid to get things done in organizations. As such, the manager is accountable for themselves as well as the behavior and performance of his or her employees. A manager has the authority and power to hire, promote, discipline and fire employees based on those behaviors and performance. As being said management is about efficiency and getting results though systems, processes, procedures, controls and structure.

About the Leader. A leader is defied as the person who leads or command a group, organization. The essential part of a leader lies in his/her ability to motivate people to follow his or her lead. According to Robert Tanembaun “Leaders are those who use formal authority to organize, direct, control the responsible subordinates, so that all parts of the work are coordinated in order to achieve the company's goals”. Leader moves a vision forward by motivating and inspiring, keeping people moving in the right direction, despite major obstacles to change, by appealing to basic but often untapped human needs, values and emotions. A leader achieves this condition when they highlight the values of the audience they are addressing, regularly involves people in deciding how to achieve the organization’s vision, support employees efforts to realize the vision by providing feedback and coaching, and recognizing and rewarding success. Together these methods make the work important to the employee, the employee feels in control, the employee can grow professionally and they feel a sense of accomplishment. All of these are essential human needs that when fulfilled lead to greater performance.

Perhaps the greatest separation between management and leadership is that leaders do not have to hold a management position. That is, a person can become a leader without a formal title. Any individual can become a leader because the basis of leadership is on the personal qualities of the leader. People are willing to follow the leader because of who he or she is and what the leader stands for, not because they have to due to the authority bestowed onto him or her by the organization. The leader will show passion and personal investment in the success of his or her followers reaching their goals, which may be different from organizational goals.  Leaders are more likely to take action and invoke action in others than to schedule planning sessions

It is clear that there exist major differences between managers and leaders in the way they accomplish goals and complete tasks. Managers make sure that rules, regulations, procedures, policies and guideline are followed to the letter. Leaders realize the importance of entrusting others to work toward a vision not just simply follow the rules, regulations, procedures, policy and guidelines. Managers are also more production oriented, while leaders tend to be more people oriented. Telling people what to do does not inspire them to follow or produce results. Appealing to people and showing them how to follow will lead them to putting their heart into the project or cause and make them want to complete the task at hand. Leading persuade and motivate individuals to take risks they would not normally undertake.