Leadership and management

Leadership is the ability of an authority to influence and motivates employees in the organization towards the effective work and success in the organization. Management is a way to direct and control a group or more groups of people for the purpose of bringing together harmony towards the goals set in the organization. This paper is focusing on differences and similarities of leadership and management.

The general differences of leadership and management are leader purpose in the organization is to lead the employee while manager work in the organization is to make profitability decision so as to meet the goals set in the organization. Leaders set goals of an organization depending on hi/her personal qualities unlike manager follow the goals and manage an organization toward the goals.

Similarities between the leadership and management are that they act together if vision is clear and well communicated whereby they establish the goals, making assignments and managing the employee to task on the goal in the organization. Manager and leader share one thing in common for a manager can be a leader and vice versa because a leader who leads effectively, when it comes to checking cards and reviewing employee is the role of a manager but a leader can do it well. Likewise, a manager can perfume a role of leader by leading the employees and tackling the problems as a leader does.

Leadership and management are two terms confuse people. But the differences and similarities in this paper clearly focus the role of the manager and of a leader as well as they have similar roles in the organization. In the same case, a manager can be a leader and a leader can be a manager because both of them process in the involvement of success towards goals set.