Leadership and Management Concept

LEADERSHIP AND
MANAGEMENT CONCEPT

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
LO1..................................................................................................................................................3
P1 What do you mean by leader and manager and compare their roles and characteristics.......3
LO2..................................................................................................................................................4
P2 Role of leader and function of manager in situational context...............................................4
P3 Theories and models of approach on leadership and management........................................6
LO3..................................................................................................................................................7
P4 Key approaches and roles of leader and manager in operations management.......................7
P5 Importance of operation management....................................................................................7
LO4..................................................................................................................................................8
P6 Factors that impact on operational management and decision making..................................8
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Leadership and management are very important parts of business organizations, how it helps
to absorb organizational resources, to achieve goals and objectives through various strategies and
models. Present study is based on Tesco, it is the leading retail firm which operates its business
globally. Company follows flat management structure which helps organization in involving
people in decision making process and make them satisfied. rganizations and try to assess
their strengths and weaknesses, as well as operating and management requirements for
organizations, depending on the organization leadership and management style.
LO1
P1 What do you mean by leader and manager and compare their roles and characteristics
As per the view of Morden, (2016) Leaders are people who influence their followers to
achieve certain goals. They have a vision and inspire followers in a way that becomes their
vision. They help them develop strategies to achieve goals and achieve good predictability along
with other qualities such as - subordinate motivation, team building, innovation, stakeholder
trust, etc. These are leaders at all levels of Tesco and represent organizations.
According to Blomme Kodden and Beasley-Suffolk, (2015) managers can be defined as
people those who are responsible for managing people of organization and completing the task
on time. Managers have responsibility in coordinating and controlling within the organization.
The higher authority have the authority to hire and terminate employees. At Tesco it has varities
of managers who work at top level, task leader, functional and general managers such as Top
Level Managers, Function Managers, Project Leaders and General Managers. Their main
responsibility is to focus on goals and priorities of organization. They have other jobs like
advertising, keeping track of manufacturing and sales General manager handles the store at front
line position.
Role and characteristics of leaders
Vision oriented: Managers are the vision and visionary thinking of the future
Protecting employees: Executives always protect their employees and motivate them to achieve
tesco goals
Relationships: Leader always focuses on people, inspires and develops them to complete the
organization's mission. They use personal power to influence others, and act as trainers and

facilitators for followers (Leadership vs. Management: Characteristics of a Manager, 2016).
They also encourage creativity and focus on dynamic changes in the environment.
Grouping: Leadership always creates a culture of communication and listening to one another,
helping others and making others happy. They also reduce restrictions and create teamwork
within the Tesco.
Role and characteristics of managers
Process oriented: Managers always think about the processes that the organization performs
effectively.
Protect self: Managers always defend themselves
Manager focuses on objectivity and focuses primarily on organizational results, reports and
mechanisms. To influence others, managers depend on position and uses control rather than
motivation.
Managers believes in line and personnel management, trusts the organization, personnel and
structure, creates boundaries and focuses on direct and control and give solutions and guidance
to the Tesco
LO2
P2 Leader's importance and manager functionality in different situations.
The manager's role and management function is the TESCO organization to improve and
change company activities for various types of governance and governance features. This
concept allows for changes in factors that initiate knowledge about management activities
(Morden, 2016). The effectiveness of the organization depends upon various situations which are
as follows:
Stable situation – The situation in which organization goals and vision affect stability and the
changes that company did not have experience. For example, the market depends upon various
economic factors like inflation and recession which can make the organization unstable.
Changes to slow situations – The situations related to slow development and competencies can
affect the organization change management which will delay the outcomes in a moderate manner
which can influence market, the situation changes moderately affect leader's importance and
manager functionality in different situations., focusing on results.
A rapidly changing situation - This situation is currently the fastest situation in organizational
goals because conditions that change rapidly have recovered depending on the market