Organizational Behavior
Organizational Behavior
18th Edition
ISBN: 9780134729756
Author: Stephen P. Robbins; Timothy A. Judge
Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
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Leadership and power are two different positions and responsibilities, this difference will be discussed below.

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Leadership is the ability to lead a group of people into achieving an organizations goals, targets and visions. Leaders have the ability to motivate their group members towards achieving team or major goals. Different leaders use different styles of leadership

Power is the ability to make people work towards an objective amd the ability to get the task done is defined as power. This power is something more than the ability to just motivate. There are many kinds of powers and individuals could wield over a group such as positional power, informational power, reward power, coercive power and etc,

A manager in a company could have both factors together, where he is able to lead and have over his subordinates at the same time. However just because someone is a leader doesn’t mean he/she has the power too.

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Firstly having power over something and the ability to lead someone is two different scenarios, however these two could come together. The common differences include the following;

Leaders may use their power in achieving their goals however power doesn’t require the motivation of goal accomplishment, power only requires dependence.

Further direction of influence in leadership focuses on downward influence whereas power focuses on all factors considered.

leadership focuses on style such as autocratic, democratic, lazziez fair and paternalistic. While power focuses on tactics.

Leadership focuses on the motivation skills of the employees while power is how to use the skills in order to achieve goals given.

Leadership can be varied as successful leadership and effective leadership. Successful leadership is where when you get a group with a task you boss the group and them do their task day and night and accomplish the goals. Effective leadership is where the leader accomplishes but then brings the team along too through emotional intelligence. Therefore successful leaders more likely use power to ensure goals are met, they use legitimate and coercive power at times. Further effective leaders may also use some powers like referent power but not as much as successful leadership.

Therefore in conclusion leadership and power are two different scenarios because someone who is an leader may not have the power to control his members whereas someone with power may not be a great leader. But successful leaders may use power in leadership.

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