Difference between Management and Leadership: A Case Study

Diana Elrabih
Additional contact information
Diana Elrabih: Research and Development Department, Monty Holding Company, Beirut, Lebanon

International Journal of Business and Economic Affairs (IJBEA), 2018, vol. 3, issue 3, 130-140

Abstract: In this paper our research purpose is to study the di erence between management and leadership througha case study, by presenting a management situation in a company and by studying the facts in this situation, the eventsin this situation, the analysis of these facts and events, and the learned lessons from this case study. In fact, we analyzein this case study the managerial situation especially for a manager X in our case study, who had some aws in his styleof management leaking of leadership. We learn some general and speci c lessons in relation to our studied managerialsituation. Our methodology will be based on collection of facts and events of a case study and also based on analysisand interpretation of this case study by proposing multiple improvements of this managerial situation especially for themanager X and by combining his management skills with his leadership skills. We nd through this case study the maindi erences between the management and the leadership. Also we illustrate in this paper the interest to combine leadershipskills with management skills for the manager X in our studied managerial situation and to adapt the management stylesfor the manager X according to the managerial situation. We nd in this paper an essential di erence between leadershipand management which is captured: Leadership is setting a new direction or vision for a group that they follow: aleader is the spearhead for that new direction. Leadership is about aligning people to the vision that means buy-in andcommunication, motivation and inspiration. Management controls or directs people/resources in a group according toprinciples or values that have been established. Management is a set of processes that keep an organization functioning.The processes are about planning, budgeting, staffing, clarifying jobs, measuring performance, and problem-solving whenresults did not go to plan.

Keywords: Leadership; Leadership styles; Management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://ijbea.com/ojs/index.php/ijbea/article/view/37 (application/pdf)
https://ijbea.com/ojs/index.php/ijbea/article/view/37/27 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:aya:ijbeaa:2018:p:130-140

DOI: 10.24088/IJBEA-2018-33004

Access Statistics for this article

International Journal of Business and Economic Affairs (IJBEA) is currently edited by Sana N. Maswadeh

More articles in International Journal of Business and Economic Affairs (IJBEA) from Sana N. Maswadeh H # 15, Street # 9, Margalla view Housing Society, D-17, Islamabad.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sana N. Maswadeh ().