Effective Leadership: Comparative Analysis of Leadership and Management

This article comparatively analyzed the dichotomy between leadership and management, their major individual characteristics, and perceptions about issues relating to organizational control, utilization of human and material resources, and achievement of organizational and individual member‟s goals. The study laid emphasis on the glaring dichotomy between leadership and management, and prescribed democratic leadership of administration for the achievement of enterprise and individual member‟s objectives. The method used to elicit data for the study is documentary evidence. Content analysis was adopted in analyzing the data generated. The study revealed that democratic leadership pattern, with its vision and inspiration, enjoys more acceptance and followers amongst employees than the management style of administration with its task-oriented, profit-centred, fatigue and coercive approach. The study also revealed that under extreme emergency situation that calls for swift and precision, the necessity and inevitability of a situational mixture of the doctrine of democratic process and application of authoritarianism in leadership to achieve the desired objectives without losing the obedience and respect of followers, enjoys public sympathy in organizational management.