Difference between Leader and Manager. Activity and responsibility of a Leader. Activity and responsibility of a Manager.

1. Differentiate a Leader from a Manager
Article: What Leaders Really Do?
Presented By
Md. Sohel Rana
Department of Business Administration
East West University

2. Article: What Really leaders Do?
Managers and Leaders: Are They Different?
Published: In 1977
What Leaders Really Do?
Published: In 1990

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Leadership and management are two distinctive and
complementary system of action. Each has it’s own
function and characteristic activities.
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4. Basic Difference Between Managers & Leaders
Managers
 Promote stability
 Aim is predictability & orderly
result by planning
 Looks for right fit between people
and jobs
 Strives to make it easy to run
routine jobs
Leaders
 Seek for change
 Aim is produce is change by setting
direction
 Looks for right fit between people
and vision
 Attempt to touch people at their
deepest level by staring their basic
needs

5. System of Action of Managers and Leaders
Managers:
Cope with Complexity by-
1) Planning and Budgeting
2) Organizing and Staffing
3) Controlling and Problem Solving
Leaders:
Manage Constructive Changes by-
1) Setting a Direction
2) Aligning People
3) Motivating People

6. Planning and Budgeting Vs Setting a Direction
Planning and Budgeting
 Setting targets or goals for the
future
 Establish detail steps for
achieving those targets
 Allocating resources to
accomplish those plans
 Long term planning are time
consuming and cant adapt with
rapid changes
 Such approaches can never work
Setting a Direction
 Developing a vision of the future
 Create and articulate a strategy for
producing the changes needed to
achieve that vision
 Looks for patterns, relationships and
linkage

7. Organizing and Staffing Vs Aligning People
Organizing and Staffing
 Creating an organizational
structure and set of job
 Staffing the job with qualified
individuals
 Delegating responsibility
Aligning People
 Communicating the new direction
 Committed to its achievement
 Aligning is a challenge
 Another challenge creditability
 The vision are sheared to everyone

8. Controlling and Problem Solving Vs Motivating
Controlling and problem solving
 Monitoring result versus the plan
in some details
 By means of report, meeting and
other tools identity deviations
 And planning and organizing to
solve the problems
 Purpose of structure is to help
normal people to run routine work
normally
Motivating
 Keeping people moving into the right
direction
 Despite major obstacles to change
 By appealing to basic and but often
untapped human needs
 Coping with bad situation need
highly energized behaviour
 Caring create a sense of control
 Coaching enhance self-esteem

9. Reference
Havard business review: what leaders really do?
https://hbr.org/2001/12/what-leaders-really-do
https://hbr.org/2013/08/tests-of-a-leadership-transiti
http://guides.wsj.com/management/developing-a-
leadership-style/what-is-the-difference-between-
management-and-leadership/
http://changingminds.org/disciplines/leadership/articles/
manager_leader.htm
https://www.go2hr.ca/articles/understanding-differences-
leadership-vs-management

10. Reference
Havard business review: what leaders really do?
https://hbr.org/2001/12/what-leaders-really-do
https://hbr.org/2013/08/tests-of-a-leadership-transiti
http://guides.wsj.com/management/developing-a-
leadership-style/what-is-the-difference-between-
management-and-leadership/
http://changingminds.org/disciplines/leadership/articles/
manager_leader.htm
https://www.go2hr.ca/articles/understanding-differences-
leadership-vs-management