HTML Preview Transformational Leadership Guideline page number 1.
Leadership Advance Online
– Issue XXII
© 2012 School of Global Leadership & Entrepreneurship
Regent University, ISSN 1554-3757, www.regent.edu/lao
Transformational Leadership: What’s Your
Motivation?
Leadership Advance Online– Issue XXII
by Eileen DesAutels Wiltshire
Many people often use the terms management and leadership interchangeably, but they are really
two completely different concepts. Unlike management, leadership is a vocation rather than a
position. While management can be assigned or chosen, leadership is something to which someone
must be called. A person who takes a leadership position so they may assume a particular status or
control within an organization is a manager—not a leader. While management and leadership have
many similar characteristics, the motivations of practitioners are very different.
According to Daft (2008), the purpose of management is “the attainment of organizational goals in
an effective and efficient manner through planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling
organizational resources” (p. 14). Managers seek stability in an organized environment in order to
control the organization’s bottom line. The motivation for management is power and profit.
Leadership is different because it is “an influence relationship among leaders and followers who
intend real changes and outcomes that reflect their shared purposes” (Daft, 2008, p. 4). Leaders
provide a vision for the future of the organization and often question the way things are done
Leadership
Management
• People
• Influence
• Vision and Progress
• Relationship
• Personal Growth
• Profit
• Power
• Stability
• Status
• Production and Performance