Open AccessThe Difference Between Leadership And Management: A Gender Perspective
Author(s) -
Shahid D. Siddiqui
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
pakistan journal of gender studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2663-8886
pISSN - 2072-0394
DOI - 10.46568/pjgs.v5i1.393
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , leadership style , public relations , transactional leadership , transformational leadership , neuroleadership , leadership , psychology , sociology , shared leadership , management , political science , computer science , economics , artificial intelligence
Discussions on leadership typically get bogged down by a debate between the differences of leadership and management. Some authors argue that leadership and management are diametrically opposed concepts (Bennis & Nanus, 1985) while other authors use the terms interchangeably (Yukl, 2010). This article consider competing perspectives to understand better the relationship between leadership and management, and will conclude by suggesting that effective leaders need to be good managers and that effective managers need to be good leaders. In leadership and management the gender perspective is of outstanding importance. This article also explains that women’s traditional and stereotypic styles of communication are more like those of a good manager than are men’s stereotypic styles.