MANAGEMENT AND

LEADERSHIP

Leadership

Leadership means "the ability of an individual to

influence, motivate, and enable others to contribute
toward the effectiveness and success of the
organizations of which they are members."

Management

Management comprises directing and controlling a

group of one or more people or entities for the
purpose of coordinating and harmonizing that group
towards accomplishing a goal.

Leadership ability is defined as one of the attributes

of the successful managers , along with the
intellectual skills required for
Assimilation of information
Analyzing and planning
Technical and professional knowledge of the
business are
Clear understanding of specific organization

 The leader as an artist, who uses creativity and

intuition to navigate his way through chaos,
the manager is seen as a problem solver
dependent on rationality and control.
leader is the catalyst focussed on strategy
the manager is the operator/technician concerned
with the here-and-now of operational goal
attainment.

 John Kotter (1990) who concluded

management is about coping with complexity

leadership, by contrast, is about coping with
change

 Leadership functions
Establishing direction: Vision of the future,
develop strategies for change to achieve goals
Aligning people: Communicate vision and
strategy, Influence creation of teams which
accept validity goals
Motivating and inspiring: Energize people to
overcome obstacles, satisfy human

 Management functions
Plans and budgets: Decide action plans and
timetables, allocate resources
Organizing and staffing: Decide structure and
allocate staff, develop policies, procedures and
monitoring
Controlling, problem solving: Monitor results
against plan and take corrective action