Leadership vs. Management

What makes a leader?
A Leader is someone who inspires the uninspired, they motivate the employees to become better and more skilled at what they do and they can make the working force put more effort into every task that falls into their hands, whether it is serving the food to actually preparing it.
What makes a manager?
A manager is someone who will control certain things within a business; they will implement policies that the employees will need to follow. The manager will also be the recipient of any praise for good work and also any negative feedback following any bad performances.
The difference between the leadership and management styles is that the managers will be the persons looking over the employees and make sure that they are each doing there required job, whereas the leadership styles will be someone who will motivate those around them to improve themselves and their work.
The Managerial Grid is based on two behavioural dimensions:
• Concern for People - This is the degree to which a leader considers the needs of team members, their interests, and areas of personal development when deciding how best to accomplish a task
• Concern for Production - This is the degree to which a leader emphasizes concrete objectives, organizational efficiency and high productivity when deciding how best to accomplish a task.
Using the axis to plot leadership 'concerns for production' versus 'concerns for people', Blake and Mouton defined the following five leadership styles; (Stewart, 1997)

Some of the management staff where I previously worked were much more focused on the concern for production rather than the concern for people. This indicates that this particular management style would place them on the produce or perish end of the scale.
This working environment was not suitable if the employee wishes to grow as a member of that business and gain possible promotion.




Nelson Mandela was elected president of the republic of South Africa after serving 27 years in prison, when elected he achieved something that many thought impossible at the time. He managed to unite South Africans by using his leadership skills to bring the nation together, using his leadership he brought the end of most racism in South Africa.
Now that he has stepped down there is no longer the leadership Nelson Mandela brought to South Africa and the country is starting to take a turn for the worst with rolling blackouts and power cuts and an increase in racial attacks and general crime. Nelsons leadership is being missed in the new South Africa, and it will require another leader like him to get South Africa back on track.
In conclusion the management side of business is to make sure that the work required is being completed and the employees are controlled by policies and rules. Whereas leadership is needed to keep people motivated a good leader has the power to inspire those around him to do great things exactly like Nelson Mandela did for South Africa.

References;
Stewart, p. (1997), Managerial grid. Life space Publishing, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.