Contributions from the theory of administration toward understanding the process of supervision: Barth's distinction
Larson, Lars
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Title
Contributions from the theory of administration toward understanding the process of supervision: Barth's distinction
Author(s)
Larson, Lars
Issue Date
1979
Keyword(s)
Library personnel management
Human resources
Supervision
Leadership
Management
Abstract
Barth's distinction is that there are two types of people: those who divide
people into two types and those who don't. This distinction is an appropriate
one for the study of leadership, a field which consists of many
dichotomies. Distinctions are made between leaders and subordinates,
and appointed leaders and emergent leaders; between leadership and
supervision, and management and leadership; and between leaders who
are autocratic or democratic, boss-centered or subordinate-centered,
and social-emotional or task-oriented.
The purpose of this paper is to focus on one of these distinctions:
management as opposed to leadership. The literature on management
indicates that only one aspect of management is concerned with leadership,
and the leadership literature indicates little that is concerned with
management. However, a review of literature on what managers actually
do shows that aspects of management and leadership intertwine in the
job of the supervisor. In focusing on the manager/leader distinction I will
be concentrating on individuals who are appointed managers or leaders
in a formal organization. This eliminates concern with emergent (informal)
leaders and nonorganizational settings.
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Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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