Charisma - Leadership Versus Holistic (Synergetic) Competence of the Managers
Porvazník Ján
Keywords:
charisma, leadership, holistic competence, pillars of competence, essence of competence social maturity,
application skills, and professional knowledge
Abstract:
There has been the use of the term manager together with a leader – an individual with charisma.
Nowadays, they are found even more within the various subjects of management and
also in scientific literature. If activities of manager are called managing, activities of leader are
named leadership. Publications titled “Managers and leaders” are issued in order to underline
the differences between the activities of managers and humans endowed with charisma on
the other side. The demands for the inclusion of the subject of leadership in the curriculum of
faculties of management tend to appear in the academic field. The leadership subject is already
lectured at many business schools abroad. Even though it is hard to express any restrictions on
the introduced approaches in management, it is necessary to realize that features credited to
leaders, which are claimed impossible to be possessed by managers (charisma - often given by
higher power or mysticism, ability to rouse or to lead corps for achieving inhumane aims etc)
lead to the need for introspection as to whether the manager with a developed competence is
not disposed with all the attributes of the charismatic leader. However, it is often argued that
managers tend to be focused on the filling of appointed tasks by humans´ leading, whereas
leaders concentrate on the formation of good relations. Both of these roles are useful. The
usage of concrete activities for the sake of establishing and achieving real targets depends on
the degree of competence of the members of a team or group, who participate in activities for
achieving specific targets as well as on the degree of competence of the manager and/or leader
of the organization or team. This indicates that, managers with advanced holistic degree of
competence are capable of leading people in the same way as a leader. Some questions that are
raised in this paper are: Is it possible to understand the competitiveness of countries and companies
as well? How is a charismatic human a subject of management perceived in scientific
literature?
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