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Response 3

Leadership and management seem to be combined together, when in all reality, there symbiotic. Management is more of the upper division of organization, planning, motivating subordinates, etc. (Algahtani, 2014). Leadership is more of an influence; an aura if you will that people want to follow and understand/learn from. Both of these concepts individually are good and can provide a business or entity a lot of profits and success. However, when they are combined together, they can show the effectiveness of the relationship of leaders in management. Managers are specifically hired to help lead a team of people in an organization to achieve goals and values set forth by executives. However, leaders solve problems with people and show effective motivation tactics to help build others into leaders. Managers in a sense are leaders, but leaders don’t always need to be managers. Assigned leadership is an appointed position where a person does not necessarily want to use leadership skills, but is needed to oversee something. Situations like this can have toxic management, because sometimes managers can be goal oriented and not leadership oriented. Emergent leadership is where some successful people in an organization take charge via informal roles to be leaders. The leadership here helps provide for others and lead/guide others while managing their own workload. The reason for this symbiotic relationship is that the best managers are great leaders and great leaders can make great managers. The positives feed off of each other, in turn, making effective management chains of leadership.

Algahtani, A. (2014). Are leadership and management different? A review. Journal of Management Policies and Practices, 2(3), 71-82.