Difference between Manager and Leader Roles, Operations Management vs Operations Strategy, Importance of HRM

Foundations of Business
Management

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Section A.........................................................................................................................................3
Question 1: Difference between the role of a manager and the role of a leader..........................3
Question 2: Difference between Operations Management and Operations Strategy..................3
Question 3: Human resource management (HRM).....................................................................4
Section B..........................................................................................................................................5
Personal reflection.......................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

Section A
Question 1: Difference between the role of a manager and the role of a leader
A manager within a has always has full right to make changes according to its decisions.
The manager is only the responsible to body in a company or business always prepares a
business plan, organise resources, direct different people, leaders and employees, control
businesses processes etc. For example; currently Tesco is one of the leading retailers within the
United Kingsom (Caldera, Desha and Dawes, 2017). In this situation, the top-level management
of Tesco has full right to give orders to its employees. But a leader within this company has no
any right to give order to manager, because a manger always has high power than a leader within
an organisation.
On the other side, a leader within a company is always responsible to take different
orders from its manager. A leader always leader a team or a group of employees, in which it has
right to lead only those employees or team members who comes under its command. There is
manager always supervise and manage each and very activity of an organisation, but the leaders
always need to supervise and lead to just a team. A leader within a company is always
responsible to convert different decisions of its manager into actions. Many times, a leader need
to implement various instructions in the workplace also which has provided by its senior
manager. At the end, of course there are huge difference between roles of a leader and roles of a
manager, but both are always required to put their great contribution in achieving final goals of
an organisation.
Question 2: Difference between Operations Management and Operations Strategy
There is great difference between operations management and operations strategy.
Basically, operations strategy is a small tool for the manager of a company who uses it while
managing its different organisational operations (Hermano and Martín-Cruz, 2016). A company
is always required to use operations strategy while managing its various operations for
systematically achieving final goals of its operations. It is very necessary for the top-level
management of a company or business for using different operations strategies, like; TQM (total
quality management), JIT (just in time) and lean production etc. Reason is, these operations