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Leadership in Organizations 8th Edition by Gary Yukl

Edition 8ISBN: 978-0132771863
book Leadership in Organizations 8th Edition by Gary Yukl cover

Leadership in Organizations 8th Edition by Gary Yukl

Edition 8ISBN: 978-0132771863
Exercise 2
What are the arguments for and against making a distinction between leaders and managers?
Explanation
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Introduction
Manager is dealing with planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling the resources of organization. Leader is who cares about people as well as economic outcomes.
Explanation
There are some arguments for making distinction between leaders and managers as follows:
The leader and manager are different, because manager administers as well as leader innovates.
The manager can maintain the process or situation. The leader can create or develop the solution.
The manager may try to imitate, but leader may start new or originate the new way of doing the things.
There are some arguments against making distinction between leaders and managers as follows:
The manager tries to produce predictability and orders. However, try to produce organizational change. Both are required in the optimum balance.
It depends on the organization that which is more required. For more complicated situation management requires more than leading. Hence, many big companies require dynamic personalities who act both roles.
Most of researcher agrees that, success of manager in modern organization involves leading skills.
Conclusion
The term leader and manger have many differences; still both are not differentiated with any clear feature. Successful manager possesses the skills of leader as well. Any leader is good manager also.
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