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What is the
difference between leadership and management? What
are the primary responsibilities of leadership?
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Posted:
Aug 2009 |
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Business
management requires application of different management
skills and methods. Leadership and management are
frequently used terms that reflecting a skills necessary
for business management. So what is the similarities and
differences between these to terms?
Management
is focused on business result and management of
resources. Resources are all inputs of business process;
materials, machines, buildings, finished goods,
potential, people... Resources are transferred to
outputs through different business processes. Good
management of resources brings optimal ratio between
inputs, processes and outputs.
Leadership
is focused on people, culture and relationships. Results
are still important aspect, but the stress is given to
making people capable of doing their part of job.
Leadership is the capacity to motivate and direct others
toward the common goal. Leader is initiating the action
and making other to take their responsibility for the
part of the process.
The
primary responsibilities of leaders are to make their people
successful, to make their business successful and
to make themselves successful. The emphasis is
given on making their people successful. Every manager
is the leader to at same time. But the leadership style
can be different, depending of the position of the
manager. The different positions in hierarchy requires
different skills, time allocation and work values.
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