Leadership and management theories in Woolworths Group and ASDA Group

HISTROCIAL
DEVELOPMENT OF
MANAGAEMENT AND
LEADERSHIP
STUDENT DETAILS
STUDENT DETAILS

LEADERSHIP 1
Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Historical perspective of leadership and management...............................................................3
Leadership and management theories that are incorporating in Woolworths Group and ASDA
Group..........................................................................................................................................4
Styles of leadership....................................................................................................................4
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................6
References..................................................................................................................................7

LEADERSHIP 2
Introduction
Since the last 30 years, leadership has become a fashionable context in the history of
management. In this span of this time, various authors and researchers have concluded that
leadership and management are not the same because both solve problems differently. In
simple words, authors have compared the historical form of leadership and management, they
figure out that management provides guidelines to plan, organize and establish effective
coordination (Western, 2019). On the other hand, different styles of leadership are adopted
for inspiring and motivating. For this report, two organization are selected from the retail
industry, through the operations of the organization there will be a discussion about the
norms of leadership and management. Woolworths Group and ASDA are two selected
organizations. In this report, there will be a discussion about the historical development of
management and leadership in these two contrasting organizations.