Many people do not realize that the difference between management and leadership is quite vast. This paper will examine the difference between leaders and managers, the roles and responsibilities of the Tyco management and its leaders, how these leaders and managers of Tyco's functions have created a healthy and productive culture for its employees and two strategies that will help Tyco maintain this culture.
Managers and LeadersThe qualities and characteristics of a manager are quite different from those of a leader. A manager focuses more on the short term goals and on systems, relies primarily on control, asks the how and when and in the end, managers will do things right. Leaders will focus on the long-term goals, focus on the people, inspire loyalty and trust, ask the what, why and why not's and in the end leaders do the right thing. The best leaders have a strong sense of self and purpose along with hope, optimism and compassion.
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A view of downtown Celebration, Florida: the city ...The leaders will strategically plan for the future with a vision and inspire others to help achieve that goal. Management helps with the day to day goals that will help the long-term vision be attained.
Roles and ResponsibilitiesLeaders play an immense role in the creating and maintaining the healthy organizational culture. At Tyco, the leadership that was in place before July of 2002 did not create nor maintain a healthy or ethical culture. Major damage to the corporation occurred externally but more important-internally with the scandals that occurred with the previous leadership. Trust in the upper echelon of management was low when Edward D. Breen took over the company. Breen had to go immediately into crisis management mode and rebuild the organizational culture to become an even better and more diverse culture than it had been before. A few of the...