Leadership is an attribution that should be required in order to manage employees in an organization. Maybe a manager starts his or her career without being a leader, but they should grow into a leader who also manages employees. There are managers who are managers and never conquer being a leader. According to (Yukl, 2006) Managers value stability, order, and efficiency, whereas leaders value flexibility, innovation, and adaptation. Managers should have qualities that included the fundamentals of management such as planning, controlling, organizing, and leading. Leaders should have the ability to motivate and influence employees to do their job at the best of their abilities. There are some managers who just focus on staffing issues, analyzing numbers, and profits which are all important, but they can be done if the managers incorporate leadership skills in their employees. When you have good relationships with employees then you can start working with them on their leadership skills by giving them goals and allowing them to take incentive to solve small problems or come up with new ideas.

Leaders are charged with the task of moving an institution forward in an effective manner; with taking the institution from its current mission-state to a new and better vision-state (Taylor, De Lourdes Machado, & Peterson, 2008). Managers can also be leaders if they are monitoring employees and motivating their employees in the organization while still covering their manager duties for upper management. Employees get evaluations while working for an organization by their manager, but what if managers had an evaluation on solely leadership. This would help some managers look for skills to help improve their leadership skills and keep current managers committed to motivating employees. All managers should look for certain employees that have potential in moving up in the company maybe they just need someone to look at them as a potential leader. Managers can learn to be leaders they should be the ones setting the example to employees that leadership is what guides employees and keep structure in an organization that’s why it takes a great manager to be a great leader. Just because a manager has a management position that does not mean they are a leader. They could have all the principals of managing employees, but for long-term success they have to incorporate leadership and show that they can motivate employees not to just do their job, but to grow within the organizations.

The true value of a manager is not how well they achieve profit; it how they lead a team to success and grow from challenges that finish with a gain. I hope that when I become a manager I first master the knowledge of good communication skills so that I can build a relationship with my employees that leaders to managing and follows with leading them into their own personal goals with the organization.

References

Taylor, J., De Lourdes Machado, M., & Peterson, M. (2008). Leadership and Strategic Management: keys to institutional priorities and planning. European Journal of Education, 43(3), 369-386. doi:10.1111/j.1465-3435.2008.00363.x.

Yuki, D. (2006). Leadership in Organizations, (7th Edi). Pearson: Upper Saddle River: NJ