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Leaders and Managers Can Be Compared On The Following Basis

Managers and leaders differ in how they attain their positions, their authority, and their focus. Managers gain authority from their formal job role and position in the organization, while leaders gain followers through personal qualities. Managers are accountable to organizational goals and have formal rights and stability in their role, whereas leaders focus on group goals and member satisfaction and have temporary informal influence. While all managers can be considered leaders, not all leaders are managers.

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Leaders and Managers Can Be Compared On The Following Basis

Managers and leaders differ in how they attain their positions, their authority, and their focus. Managers gain authority from their formal job role and position in the organization, while leaders gain followers through personal qualities. Managers are accountable to organizational goals and have formal rights and stability in their role, whereas leaders focus on group goals and member satisfaction and have temporary informal influence. While all managers can be considered leaders, not all leaders are managers.

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Leaders and Managers can be compared on the following basis:

Basis

Manager

Leader

Origin

A person becomes a manager by virtue of his


position.

A person becomes a leader on basis of his personal


qualities.

Formal Rights

Manager has got formal rights in an organization


because of his status.

Rights are not available to a leader.

Followers

The subordinates are the followers of managers.

The group of employees whom the leaders leads are


his followers.

Functions

A manager performs all five functions of


management.

Leader influences people to work willingly for group


objectives.

Necessity

A manager is very essential to a concern.

A leader is required to create cordial relation between


person working in and for organization.

Stability

It is more stable.

Leadership is temporary.

Mutual
Relationship

All managers are leaders.

All leaders are not managers.

Accountability

Manager is accountable for self and subordinates


behaviour and performance.

Leaders have no well defined accountability.

Concern

A managers concern is organizational goals.

A leaders concern is group goals and members

satisfaction.

Followers

People follow manager by virtue of job description.

People follow them on voluntary basis.

Role
continuation

A manager can continue in office till he performs


his duties satisfactorily in congruence with
organizational goals.

A leader can maintain his position only through day to


day wishes of followers.

Sanctions

Manager has command over allocation and


distribution of sanctions.

A leader has command over different sanctions and


related task records. These sanctions are essentially of
informal nature.

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