Thematic Analysis Coding Table

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Participant 1 The topic of this focus group is good leaders, stroke managers or bad leaders. Leadership

Participant 1 One of the things that I’d really like to hear from you guys is, what's your experience of having a good manager? Management

Participant 1 What's the difference between a leader and a manager? Leadership, Management

Participant 1 Is it possible to be a manager without managing people? Management

Participant 1 Is it possible for a leader to be a leader without any followers? Leadership

A good manager is someone who can lead their team to success by developing a specific set of skills.
Participant 2 Management

I believe a manager tend to focus all control resources and optimize the process, while the leader focus on inspiring and
Participant 2 Leadership, Management
impairing their employees to work together.

Participant 2 Leaders care about the result, but managers care about the process and efficiency. Leadership, Management

A manager can manage employees with his behaviour, with his attitudes, but if he is very rude or a transactional leader
Participant 2 Management
or autocratic. It would be difficult for him to manage.

A good leader should do some good work not only for the organization, but for the society, the world or the community.
Participant 2 Leadership

Participant 3 I think good managers are very strategic because they play a very important role in stirring the organizations towards Management

success.

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Participant 3 The main difference I think will be the manager is more of a responsibility while the leader is someone who probably is Leadership, Management

visionary.

Managers in industry actually tends to focus on controlling resources and optimizing process.
Participant 3 Management

A manager can actually have many duties and responsibility without directly managing people.
Participant 3 Management

It is very possible for someone to be a manager and not be directly managing people.
Participant 3 Management

From my experience of industry, I would say you can be a leader without actually leading people and this is what
Participant 3 Leadership
standpoint or the perspective leadership is like a soft skill that you can show even if you're not directly managing or
leading people.
What is being seen even from the academic world in recent time is everything has been challenged, especially with the
Participant 3 Leadership
rise of the digital age.

I would like to add to what have been said so far that empathy and of course patience because without that these days
Participant 4 Management
it's really impossible to run or, you know, a group or a team or an organization.

I can simply say that, you know, in simple and short words, not every leader has to be a manager, but the manager
Participant 4 Leadership, Management
should have the leadership skills because not every leader can be a manager in an organization.

My opinion, based on my experience and based on the present time is that if the followers blindly follow the leader,
Participant 4 Leadership
then there is little hope and little scope for innovation.

The Generation Z are the ones really influenced by the social media influencers and they follow the leaders that way.
Participant 4 Leadership

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