Role of Management and Leadership in Organizational Situations

MANAGEMENT AND OPERATION
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Table of Contents
Case study 1.....................................................................................................................................3
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................3
Role of management and leadership and its main differentiation:..................................................3
Describing the different roles of management and leadership in application to different
organizational situations supported by theories:..............................................................................4
Assessing the applicability of conventional theories to the organization and how they support
growth:.............................................................................................................................................5
Conclusion and recommendation:...................................................................................................6
Case study 2.....................................................................................................................................7
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................7
Assessment of operations management and role of managers and leaders:....................................7
Assessment of importance of operations management:...................................................................8
Assessment of factors having influence upon operational management and decision making
processes:.......................................................................................................................................10
Conclusion:....................................................................................................................................11
References......................................................................................................................................12
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Case study 1
Introduction:
This report will cover the various role, function, differentiation, different theories, objectives and
applications of leadership and management in an organisation in different situations. Leadership
means the ability to achieve a goal by the way of motivating a group of people, whereas
management means the process of controlling or dealing with the people in work. A leader works
as a back bone of an organisation. On the other hand, managers are responsible for completing
the job. Leaders help to enhance the performance of the employees of an organisation. In the
following, the delicate difference between the two has been described in context of the given
case of Oracle. Oracle has an organizational hierarchy, where the top executives visualise the
mission and order their subordinates to make the job done by the employees positioned in the last
tier of the hierarchy.
Role of management and leadership and its main differentiation:
An organisation has different operating units. Organisational hierarchy is classified as director,
management, leaders and coordinators (Albach et al., 2010). Managers’ are responsible for
handling employees, distributing duties among the employees and helping them by leading the
tea. The manager is responsible to choose a person who has the ability to help him or her in
achieving the goal of the organisation in an optimum way. On the other hand, leadership is a
process of achieving organisations’ goal by motivating the subordinates. To achieve the goal of
an organisation a leader is often identified with the characters as follow
 A leader should have the power to motivate subordinates by his oratory skills.
 A leader should be a well behaved person and is needed to have a good coordination with
other members of the team.
 A leader should possess clear vision.
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 A leader should be prudent.
 A leader should have a clear view of the concepts and explaining skills that help
encourage the subordinates.
 Leader should have the power to build a moral for his team and to connect everyone.
Different between leader and manager:
Leader enables the organization to negotiate the way through difficult path and difficulties and
fulfil the respective financial and non-financial objectives of the enterprise (Albach et al., 2010).
In this study, it has been said that a manager of Oracle has not been able to properly manage the
team members. Therefore, it can be said that the cited person has failed to become a leader as
well as a good manager for the organization. A leader is a person who is able to motivate his or
her team members. On the other hand, a manger is the person who gets the job done by proper
control over the team members. Therefore, according to (Boerner and Gebert, 2012), there is a
small gap with the perception of the role of a leader and also that of a manager. The work of a
manager and a leader depend each other.
On the other, managers are responsible for perform the respective financial and non-financial
activities and operations of the enterprise. Further, managers are also responsible for maintaining
working environment and deals with all the contingencies in a fruitful manner. In the words of
(Boerner and Gebert, 2012), a manager is a person who copies, however, a leader is the inventor
and let the team do their work on their own. Therefore, both the personalities are required to
achieve the highest goal of an organization.
Describing the different roles of management and leadership in application to different
organizational situations supported by theories:
Role of leader is to guide and role of manager is to perform:
In this case, it has been observed that management and leadership is two different aspects of
operational conducts. There are some instances where leadership is required, whereas in other
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