Leadership versus Management

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This paper discusses how the differences between leadership and management are dramatically different. It looks at how the consensus of many leadership and management researchers and theorists is that each requires significantly different skill sets to do well, and that leadership is centered on invoking and sustaining worker commitment, even in times of uncertainty.

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"Other theorists including Dansey-Smith (2004) have succinctly remarked that leadership is more about who you are and management is about what you do. Dansey-Smith has made the delineations of management and leadership clear by stating that all leaders need to be first good managers. In her observations she states that management is more of a concerned with the doing of tasks, short-term orientations and operations, highly transactional and task-driven, and most known for a high level of monitoring and controlling activity. All these attributes lead to management being more focused on supervising than collaborating or developing subordinates."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Dansey-Smith (2004) - Why "soft" people skills are key to leadership development. Strategic HR Review. Fiona Dansey-Smith. Volume 3 Issue 3, March/April 2004. Pages 28 - 31.
• Nebeker and Tatum (2002) - D. M. Nebecker and B.C. Tatum, "Understanding Organizational Processes and Performance," In R. L. Lowman (Ed.), Journal of Organizational Consulting Psychology. Volume 12, December, 2002
• Gordon and Yukl (2004) - "The Future of Leadership Research: Challenges and Opportunities," German Journal of Human Resource Research, Vol. 18, 2004, pp. 359-365. Retrieved JANUARY 30, 2007 from ProQuest database.
• Kotterman (2006) - James Kotterman, Leadership versus Management: What's the Difference? The Journal for Quality and Participation ,Summer 2006. Pages 13 - 17.
• Lord (2002) - "Thinking Outside the Box by Looking Inside the Box: Extending the Cognitive Revolution in Leadership Theory," Leadership Quarterly, Vol. 11, 2000, pp. 551-579. Retrieved January 30, 2007, from Academic Search Elite database.

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