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Difference Between Leader and Manager

   

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MANAGEMENT ANDOPERATIONS

TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1ACTIVITY 1....................................................................................................................................1Definition and comparison of different roles and characteristics of leader and managers.........1Different theories and models of approach of leadership...........................................................3Examples of role of leaders and functions of managers.............................................................5Strengths and Weaknesses of different approaches....................................................................5ACTIVITY 2....................................................................................................................................6Key approaches of Operational management.............................................................................6Business environment factors that have an impact on the decisions of leaders and managers...6CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTIONOperations management is that area of management which is concerned with thecontrolling and designing the process of production and also the redesigning the businessoperations in production of goods and services. It is mainly concerned with the planning,organizing as well as supervising within the context of production, manufacturing of product andservices of an organization. In this report Unilever is taken as an organization, Unilever is aBritish-Dutch multinational translocation consumer goods company. Its headquarters are presentin Unilever House, London, UK and Rotterdam, Netherlands. Unilever owns more than 400brands with the turnover of 53.7 billion Euros (Mohar, Abdullah and Ho, 2016). The Presentreport discusses about difference between roles and functions of leader and the manager ofUnilever UK and the strengths and weaknesses as per their roles in an organization. This reportalso discusses about various key approaches of operations management. Present report alsodiscusses about the how various factors of business environment have impact on the decisions ofleaders and manager and upon operational management.ACTIVITY 1Definition and comparison of different roles and characteristics of leader and managersTo,General Manager,Unilever,London. Subject: Definition and comparison of different roles and characteristics of leader andmanagers.Leaders are the persons who have the people to follow them and influence the group offollowers through their actions and thoughts to work towards the achievement of goals andobjectives. A leader is a person who is in charge and convinces other people to follow (Grahamand Potter, 2015). A leader should possess high leadership skills in order to be a leader. Whilemanagers are the persons who makes the people to work for them. A manager is an individualwho in charge of the group of tasks. Manager is responsible for administering and controllingan organization or a group of persons or a group of staff regarded in terms of their skills. Amanager may be in charge of a department and the people who work in the organization.Roles of managers and leaders1

Leaders ManagersLeaders create vision, leaders help in creatingvision and inspires and engages their followersin turning the vision in to reality.Mangers create goals; managers focuses onthe setting, achieving and measuring the goals.Leader is aiming towards the growth anddevelopment of the followers in Unilever Manager role is to accomplish the end resultsof the organization.Leader is willing to take risks as they arewilling to try new things in an organization.Managers of Unilever controls risks which arefaced by the organization.Leaders role is to build trust and relationshipsamong the followers, they focus on all thestakeholders which they need to influence inorder to realize their vision.Managers of Unilever build various systemsand processes in a organization so thatoperations can be perform in proper way.Leaders role is to provide coaching andincidence to the followers regarding the tasks.Mangers assigns the tasks which is to becompleted by the employees of anorganization.Leaders grow the personality of the employeesin an organization.Managers depends on the existing personalityof the employees in order to accomplish theobjectives if an organization. Leader has deal with the specific group withinthe organization.Under manager there are various departmentsof an organization.Characteristics of leader and managersLeaders ManagersLeaders work in collaboration with itsfollowers in order to complete the tasks inUnilever.Managers don not work with employees tocomplete the tasks but give directions how tocomplete the tasks.Unilever Leaders make innovations duringcompletions of the tasks Unilever Managers set the tasks and ensure thetasks are done properly.Leaders of Unilever are influential which is akey success of the leader. Managers of Unilever may or may not beinfluential for the employees of anorganization.Leaders executes the planning to achieve theManagers makes the plan achieving an2

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