Tarea de inglés 2° EMT ADMINISTRACIÓN, DEPORTE, Y ELECTROMECÁNICA – Prof.

Mayra Buenahora

LEADER OR MANAGER?
Leadership is a skill, and the person who possess this ability is known as a LEADER.

Management is a discipline, and the practitioner of this discipline is known as the

MANAGER.

A leader is a person who influences his followers to achieve a specified goal. It is a person with a vision and inspires his followers
in a way that it becomes their vision. He helps them in making the strategy to achieve the goal and possesses a good vision,
along with other qualities like: motivating the subordinates, creating teams, innovation, developing trust among the stakeholders,
etc. A leader is required at all levels of the organization which acts as a representative of the organization. He encourages the
whole team to work together and supports them in accomplishing their tasks, as a guide or a philosopher.
A manager is a person who manages the organization; he is responsible for planning, organization, direction, coordination and
control. They are the ones who get their work done by the employees through several ways, and have the authority to hire or fire
the employees. There are various types of managers present in an organization such as top level managers, functional managers,
project manager, general manager, etc.
In an organization, it is the manager who performs the five major functions: planning, organizing, leading, controlling and
coordinating. A manager can only be a person holding a management position, but not all the managers are leaders, only those
managers who perform the functions such as encouraging, motivating, inspiring, etc. The leader can be any person who
influences others; the title is not attached to a management position.
1) Answer the following questions

a) What is a leader?
b) What does a leader do?
c) What is a manager?
d) What does a manager do?
2) Write the following words/expressions in the corresponding column below .
SAYS “I” APPROVES BREAKS THE RULES GIVES CREDIT
INSPIRES TRUST SAYS “LET’S GO” ENCOURAGES CONTROLS
DEPENDS ON GOODWILL INSTRUCTS MOTIVATES SAYS “WE”
TAKES CREDIT FOLLOWS THE RULES SAYS “GO” DEPENDS ON AUTHORITY

Comparative Diagram
LEADER MANAGER
INSTRUCTS ENCOURAGES
SAYS “I”

INSPIRES TRUST TAKES CREDIT

DEPENDS ON GOODWILL
APPROVES

MOTIVATES FOLLOWS THE RULES

SAYS “LET’S GO”
SAYS “WE”
CONTROLS
ENCOURAGES
Tarea de inglés 2° EMT ADMINISTRACIÓN, DEPORTE, Y ELECTROMECÁNICA – Prof. Mayra Buenahora

DEPENDS ON AUTHORITY
BREAKS THE RULES
SAYS “GO”
GIVES CREDIT

A) A leader is a person who influences his followers to achieve a specified goal. It is a person with a
vision and inspires his followers in a way that it becomes their vision.
B) He helps them in making the strategy to achieve the goal and possesses a good vision, along with
other qualities like: motivating the subordinates, creating teams, innovation, developing trust among
the stakeholders, etc.
C) A manager is a person who manages the organization; he is responsible for planning, organization,
direction, coordination and control.
D) They are the ones who get their work done by the employees through several ways, and have the authority
to hire or fire the employees. There are various types of managers present in an organization such as top
level managers, functional managers, project manager, general manager, etc. In an organization, it is the
manager who performs the five major functions: planning, organizing, leading, controlling and coordinating.