Leadership and Management Report on Sainsbury's

Leadership and
Management
Report on Sainsbury's

Executive Summary:
This report provides an evaluation of roles of leadership and management functions on
Sainsbury. The following sections are discussed on topics like leadership and management
definitions and their theories, key performance metrics of organisation and performance
comparison with ASDA. The findings through this report are how leadership styles and
managerial functions helps an organization to develop and grow in the market.

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION:..........................................................................................................................1
1. Discuss with analysation and comparison of leadership and management........................1
2. Key performance metrics of Sainsbury:.............................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERNCES:..................................................................................................................................9
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INTRODUCTION:
The concept of leadership development refers about to activities which helps to improve
skills, abilities and high motivating personality of leaders. According to their better
understanding to create an complexity with cost and style of teaching that influence people
overall skills and attributes. Another process of leadership development is having common
related procedure towards succession planning, it also aims to develop high competency of
leader who deserve to authorize for handling senior positions (Bhatnagar, 2017). From high
performance is difficult identified about these leadership development program towards long
term period. Management skills can defines as some specific attributes or abilities that an
executive which must process in order to fulfil particular task in organisation. A better
management skills play an important role in organisation to accomplish goals and objective
successfully. These both developing leadership and management skills influence to employees
performance effectiveness.
As per report, organisation is taken Sainsbury plc, it is second largest chain of
supermarket in the United Kingdom where it founded in 1869 by John James Sainsbury with
having small moderate kind of shop, London. The company becomes largest retailer in the year
of groceries in 1922 (Breakspear and et. al., 2017). Their annual revenue is generates 29.007
billion with having workforce around 116,400 worldwide. In report topics are covers
comparison between leadership and management, key performance metrics of organisational
sector and impact of leadership and management in employees performances.
1. Discuss with analysation and comparison of leadership and management.
Introduction of Leadership and Management
Leadership: This term captures about essentials art of motivating a group of people to
act towards for achieving common goals (Brooks and Normore, 2017). A leader emphasis about
to inspire others in such a manner to easily engage and directly act on people skills and
knowledge to improve. For Example, organisation perspective Sainsbury company, leadership
plays important role in employee performance in terms of decision making, accuracy and other
managerial skills that increase productivity.
Theories of leadership: Trait Theory: This theory defines about leadership quality of
individual leader behaviour, personality, social, physical or intellectual traits which differentiate
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