ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSTIY

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

AND DEVELOPMENT

LEADERSHIP AND CHANGE MANAGEMENT

INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT

NAME Soffonyas Argaw

ID No BEE /9397/11

Submitted to.
Dr. SEWAGEGN
Date 09/04/2022
What is Leadership?

Leadership is the creation of positive, non-incremental change through meticulous planning, vision, and
strategy. Workforce empowerment and adaptive decision-making also add up to the crucial attributes of
leadership. Most often, people relate leadership with one’s position in an organization. But leadership
has nothing to do with titles, management, or one’s personal agendas. It’s also not restricted to
personality traits such as better vision or charismatic personality.

It is more like a process of social influence, which maximizes the efforts of others towards the
achievement of a common goal. It stems from social influence and requires human resources to achieve
the intended outcomes. A leader is someone who always takes the initiative and invests a great effort to
accomplish the company’s vision. That is the only reason why people around start following them.

What is Management?

Management is all about performing pre-planned tasks on a regular basis with the help of subordinates.
A manager is completely responsible for carrying out the four important functions of management:
planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Managers can only become leaders if they adequately
carry out leadership responsibilities, including communication of good and bad, providing inspiration
and guidance, and encouraging employees to rise to a higher level of productivity.

But, unfortunately, not all managers can achieve that. Managerial responsibilities are often outlined in a
job description, with subordinates following because of the professional title or classification. A
manager's primary focus is on meeting organizational goals; they often do not take much else into
consideration. With the title comes the authority and the privilege to promote, hire, or reward
employees based on their performance and behavior.
What Do Managers Do?

A manager is a member of an organization with the responsibility of carrying out the four important
functions of management: planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. But are all managers leaders?

Most managers also tend to be leaders, but only IF they also adequately carry out the leadership
responsibilities of management, which include communication, motivation, providing inspiration and
guidance, and encouraging employees to rise to a higher level of productivity.

Unfortunately, not all managers are leaders. Some managers have poor leadership qualities, and
employees follow orders from their managers because they are obligated to do so—not necessarily
because they are influenced or inspired by the leader.

Managerial duties are usually a formal part of a job description; subordinates follow as a result of the
professional title or designation. A manager’s chief focus is to meet organizational goals and objectives;
they typically do not take much else into consideration. Managers are held responsible for their actions,
as well as for the actions of their subordinates. With the title comes the authority and the privilege to
promote, hire, fire, discipline, or reward employees based on their performance and behavior.

What Do Leaders Do?

The primary difference between management and leadership is that leaders don’t necessarily hold or
occupy a management position. Simply put, a leader doesn’t have to be an authority figure in the
organization; a leader can be anyone.

Unlike managers, leaders are followed because of their personality, behavior, and beliefs. A leader
personally invests in tasks and projects and demonstrates a high level of passion for work. Leaders take
a great deal of interest in the success of their followers, enabling them to reach their goals to
satisfaction—these are not necessarily organizational goals.
Leadership and management

Leadership and management are the terms that are often considered synonymous. It is essential to
understand that leadership is an essential part of effective management.

As a crucial component of management, remarkable leadership behaviour stresses upon building an

environment in which each and every employee develops and excels. Leadership is defined as the
potential to influence and drive the group efforts towards the accomplishment of goals. This influence
may originate from formal sources, such as that provided by acquisition of managerial position in an
organization.

A manager must have traits of a leader, i.e., he must possess leadership qualities. Leaders develop and
begin strategies that build and sustain competitive advantage. Organizations require robust leadership
and robust management for optimal organizational efficiency. Leadership and managership are two
synonymous terms” is an incorrect statement. Leadership doesn’t require any managerial position to act
as a leader. On the other hand, a manager can be a true manager only if he has got the traits of leader in
him. By virtue of his position, manager has to provide leadership to his group. A manager has to perform
all five functions to achieve goals, i.e., Planning, Organizing, Staffing, Directing, and Controlling.
Leadership is a part of these functions. Leadership as a general term is not related to managership. A
person can be a leader by virtue of qualities in him. For example: leader of a club, class, welfare
association, social organization, etc. Therefore, it is true to say that, “All managers are leaders, but all
leaders are not managers.”

A leader is one who influences the behavior and work of others in group efforts towards achievement of
specified goals in a given situation. On the other hand, manager can be a true manager only if he has got
traits of leader in him. Manager at all levels are expected to be the leaders of work groups so that
subordinates willingly carry instructions and accept their guidance. A person can be a leader by virtue of
all qualities in him
Differences between Leadership and Management

Leadership differs from management in a sense that:

(1) While managers lay down the structure and delegates authority and responsibility, leaders provides
direction by developing the organizational vision and communicating it to the employees and inspiring
them to achieve it.

(2) While management includes focus on planning, organizing, staffing, directing and controlling;
leadership is mainly a part of directing function of management. Leaders focus on listening, building
relationships, teamwork, inspiring, motivating and persuading the followers.

(3) While a leader gets his authority from his followers, a manager gets his authority by virtue of his
position in the organization.

(4) While managers follow the organization’s policies and procedure, the leaders follow their own
instinct.

(5) Management is more of science as the managers are exact, planned, standard, logical and more of
mind. Leadership, on the other hand, is an art. In an organization, if the managers are required, then
leaders are a must/essential.

(6) While management deals with the technical dimension in an organization or the job content;
leadership deals with the people aspect in an organization.

(7) While management measures/evaluates people by their name, past records, present performance;
leadership sees and evaluates individuals as having potential for things that can’t be measured, i.e., it
deals with future and the performance of people if their potential is fully extracted.

(8) If management is reactive, leadership is proactive.

(9) Management is based more on written communication, while leadership is based more on verbal
communication.
Reference

https://www.simplilearn.com/leadership-vs-management-difference-article#what_is_leadership

https://hbr.org/2013/08/tests-of-a-leadership-transiti#:~:text=Management%20consists%20of
%20controlling%20a,to%20contribute%20toward%20organizational%20success.

https://www.managementstudyguide.com/leadership-management.htm