{"id":153,"date":"2017-10-01T21:47:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T04:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/?p=153"},"modified":"2017-10-01T21:47:04","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T04:47:04","slug":"response-to-rob-tegelbergs-post-on-assigned-and-emergent-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/2017\/10\/01\/response-to-rob-tegelbergs-post-on-assigned-and-emergent-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Response to Rob Tegelberg&#8217;s Post on Assigned and Emergent Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is my response to Rob Tegelberg&#8217;s post on assigned and emergent leaders (<a href=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/robtegelberg\/2017\/09\/27\/unit-1-activity-4-assigned-and-emergent-leaders\/\">Unit 1 Activity 4<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Rob posed the question &#8220;Is it possible to be a leader without taking on the role of manager? Can you think of a tangible example of a leader who is not also a manager&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>I think in most situations, leadership and management functions overlap because leaders are often required to take on some of the responsibilities of managers and vice versa. While I think that it is almost impossible to isolate and separate the two roles completely, I think there are leadership positions where management responsibilities are delegated to others. I think an example of this would be the prime minister of Canada. The prime minster is the leader of the country and his responsibilities include creating a vision for the country and setting strategies. As outlined in the responsibilities of a leader in Northouse&#8217;s (2016) book (p. 14), the prime minister is also responsible for building teams, specifically the cabinet. I have limited knowledge of the Canadian government, so I am not sure of the exact details of the prime minister&#8217;s duties. However, my understanding is that he chooses cabinet ministers who will help him manage different topics such as &#8220;government spending, ideas for bills, and new policies, programs, and services&#8221; (Guide to the Canadian House of Commons, 2012). In this case, the prime minister is able to create direction for the country while the cabinet ministers have the expertise to manage the specific areas that they are assigned.<\/p>\n<p>A question that naturally comes up for me after answering Rob&#8217;s question would be: Is it possible to be a manager without taking on the role of leader? Any specific examples?<\/p>\n<p><strong>References<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Parliament of Canada. (2012).\u00a0<em>Guide to the Canadian House of Commons<\/em> [Data file]. Retrieved from\u00a0https:\/\/lop.parl.ca\/About\/Parliament\/GuideToHoC\/pdf\/guide_canadian_house_of_commons-e.pdf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my response to Rob Tegelberg&#8217;s post on assigned and emergent leaders (Unit 1 Activity 4). Rob posed the question &#8220;Is it possible to be a leader without taking on the role of manager? Can you think of a tangible example of a leader who is not also a manager&#8221;? I think in most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ldrs500","category-unit-1","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}