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.

Publisher

Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Series/Report Name or Number

Allerton Park Institute (34th : 1978)

ISSN

0536-4604

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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