Roles and Characteristics of Leaders and Managers

LEADERS AND
MANAGEMENT
CONCEPTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LO 1 ...............................................................................................................................................1
P1 The roles and characteristics of leaders and managers..........................................................1
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................4
P2) In different situations the role of leaders and managers .....................................................4
P3 Approaches according to leadership model. .........................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Leaders are those person who develops vision for the organization and through
empowerment motivating people to action and through basic needs fulfilment. On the other side,
management includes all the activities in which the managers set the strategy in order to organize
and coordinating the efforts of entire employees (Northouse, 2017). Sainsbury, the second
supermarkets chain in UK. They opened the largest UK shops, extension of their existing shop
in Crayford, South East London, which covers the area more than 100,000 sq. ft.. organization
had been the leader of market in the supermarket sector in U.K. In this study, defining and
comparing the role of leader and manager with their characteristics. With an examining the role
of leader and function of a manager in different situation. Applying different theories and models
of approach, including situational leadership, system leadership and contingency.
LO 1
P1 The roles and characteristics of leaders and managers
Defining leaders: This is an art of providing motivating to a group of people, towards
achievement of common goal. The essentials of leadership is to inspire others . Leadership is
based on the ideas but not applicable unless the actually communicated to others in exact way
which they want to act from others. They are the director of action and inspiration for team
members. They are the person in the group having the combination of leadership skills and
personality which makes others to follow their directions (Hawkins and Edwards, 2015).
Definition of managers: Who manages or is in charge of something. They can control
departments in organization. They provide guidance to the people who work for them. Managers
are taking make decisions about things. Managers able to doing the planning, leading,
organizing, controlling and coordinating the working of organization (Chiu, Balkundi and
Weinberg, 2017). The manager is commanding and leading the group of people. They
responsibly maintain the work systems and planning, preparing policies which enable them to
encourage for optimum performance of group of people and resources.
Comparison of roles and characteristics of a leader and manager.
Sainsbury is the leading food retailer supermarket.
Role of leaders: Leaders of Sainsbury must fulfil 10 roles for the success of the team and
organisation as a whole ;
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 Facilitator: Leader required to make things easier for others. They work as a facilitator
to boost productivity and help in making processes flow better. This improves the
performance of organisation in timely fulfilment of production requirements.
 Strategist: Leaders must think strategically in respect of directions and approaches they
required to follow (Yang, 2016). With the best direction Sainsbury's leader they become
able to achieve goal and objectives more strategically in comparison to competitors.
 Visionary: the role of Sainsbury's leader is visionary, and they think about future.
Vision of leader helps the organization in achieving their current objectives as well as
future objectives for better performance of their team members.
 Decision maker: the leader does not hesitate in taking decisions in any respect . When
leaders are taking decisions actively then they encourage their team for perform actively
towards their tasks.
In comparison to leaders the role of managers is different in Sainsbury:
 Liaison role: The manager of Sainsbury performing the functions of communicating,
motivating and encouraging group of people. This helps in better coordination of
activities all their subordinates. They also interact with the other mangers outside the
organisation for securing the informations and favours.
 Monitor role: They are seeking and receiving the information related to internal and
external events, so they become able to collect the understanding related to issues of
organization and environmental changes (Bolden, 2016). Which helps in solving
problems by understanding all the aspects of related matters.
 Dissemination role: Manger disseminating the information which are collected from
different sources and through different means. This gathered information playing a
major role in dissemination of information to their subordinates.
 Entrepreneurial role: The manager of organization initiating and overseeing the new
products that will improve the organizational performance (Chiu, Balkundi and
Weinberg, 2017). They are seeking for improvement in their department by adopting
the changes of environmental factors related to organization. This creative ideas of
managers helps the organisation to perform better in comparison to competitors of
supermarket industry.
Characteristics of leaders :
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