LEADERSHIP

and the contrast with MANAGEMENT.

Task
In pairs, take 5 minutes to answer these questions: What is an organisation? What is management? Why do we have managers?

Answers

What is an organisation? A social arrangement for achieving controlled performance towards goals that create value What is management? Getting things done with the aid of people and other resources Why do we have managers? To get things done with the aid of people and other resources

Management is
The efficient, effective and economic use of resources to achieve results with and through the efforts of other people. Or Management is the process of working with and through others to achieve organisational objectives in a changing environment.

5 components
1. Working with and through others 2. Achieving organisational objectives 3. Balancing effectiveness and efficiency 4. Making the most of limited resources 5. Coping with a changing environment

Managing Organisation and environment

Functions of organizations
Create value, wealth and human well-being Articulate and implement ideals Gain power to protect and promote sectional interests Give people work, status and social contact, Enrich directors and senior managers

The modern manager?

Boss to team leader Diversity More concern with ethics and environment Control through knowledge not carrot and stick Individual to team Competition to co-operation Single knowledge to lifelong learner Risk averse to opportunity seeking Conflict avoiding to pro-active planning Information hoarding to information sharing

Task: Experience of Managers

Take 5 minutes in larger groups, say 5, to talk about: Your experiences of being managed What a good and bad manager is like

The Problem manager?

Problems with interpersonal relationships Failure to meet business objectives Failure to build and lead a team Inability to change and adapt during a transition.

Leadership vs Management
Leadership is about coping with change by establishing vision, by communicating this vision and inspiring, by aligning people to pursue that vision Management is about coping with complexity, bringing about order, drawing up plans, designing structures, monitoring results

It would seem an over-simplification to:

Treat the terms leader and manager as meaning the same thing

Leadership is

the creation of a vision about a

desired future state which seeks to enmesh all members of an organisation in its net (Bryman (1986)

Management, on the other hand:

tends to involve a pre-occupation with the here-and-now of goal attainment (Bryman, !986)

The classic contrast:

The manager:
As As As As As As As As operator technician fixer problem solver The leader: visionary prophet catalyst mover-shaker

Managers vs Leaders
Personal qualities 1. persistence 2. analytical 3. tolerance 4. impersonal attitude to goals 5. view work as an enabling process 6. work with people, avoid solitary activity 7. self-worth enhanced by perpetuating / strengthening Personal qualities 1. shapers, proactive not reactive 2. seeks risks 3. leaders tend to evoke strong feelings in people 4. feelings occur separately from environment 5. can confront and tolerate aggressive interchange

Leader

vs

Manager
Rational Consulting Persistent Problem solving Tough-minded Analytical Structured Deliberate Authoritative Stabilising Centralises knowledge

Visionary Passionate Creative Flexible Inspiring Innovative Courageous Imaginative Experimental Independent Shares knowledge

The demand for better Leadership

Four contributors:

The increased rate of change faced by all businesses The requirement for every individual to become more effective The growth of project-based, and therefore team based working The perceived behaviour of some high profile leaders