Leadership and Management Concepts (Part 1) Leaders and Operations Management (Part 2)

Management and
Operations

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................4
P1. Explain and make a differentiate between leader and manager based on their roles and
characteristics.........................................................................................................................4
M1. Analyse and differentiate between the role of a leader and function of a manager by
effectively applying a range of theories and concepts............................................................7
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................8
P2. Presents the examples that shows how the role of leader and function of a manager are
applied in different business situational contexts...................................................................8
P3. Use different concept and models of conceptualisation in the operation management. And
also include situational leadership, systems leadership and contingency theory of leadership
................................................................................................................................................9
M2. Examine strengths and weaknesses to appraise different approaches to situations within
the work................................................................................................................................11
D1. Critically Analyse and Evaluate the different theories and approaches to leadership...12
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................12
P4. Describe key approaches of operations management considering the role and function of
leaders and managers............................................................................................................12
P5. Describe the significance and value of operations management towards the business goals
..............................................................................................................................................13
M3. Evaluate how leaders and managers can improve efficiencies of operational management
to successfully meet business objectives..............................................................................15
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................15
P6. Discuss the suitable elements of business environment that impact the decision making of
managers and leaders............................................................................................................15
M4. Analyse how these different factors affect the business environment and wider
community............................................................................................................................16
D2. Critically Evaluate application of operations management and factors that impact on the
wider business environment.................................................................................................17

CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................17
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................18

INTRODUCTION
Management and operations is the significant concept which is related with the prominent
design and suitable controlling of the prominent process by considering the procedure of
manufacturing and redesigning the business operations and other commodities. It also tends to
consider the suitable roles and responsibilities in terms of making sure for the effective
operations of business by undertaking the suitable sources which are need to meet the demand of
customers (Filimonau and Delysia, 2019). The suitable concept is required in regard of having
effective manufacturing of prominent products. In this report, Cranswick is considered which is a
leading UK food producer and the provider of fresh extra worth commodities. Company is
founded in 1974 and headquarter in Hull, UK. Furthermore, report tends to cover details
regarding the role of leader and managers by considering the various situations which are helpful
in enhancing practical knowledge. Along with this, various approaches are also discussed
undertaking the operations management values and significance for the prominent functions and
suitable factors that are helpful in identifying overall market that leads to effect the decision
making of leaders.
TASK 1
P1. Explain and make a differentiate between leader and manager based on their roles and
characteristics.
Managers: They leads to work for suitable actions and undertake effective
responsibilities to have effective operations at each and every level. For this, managers also
develop suitable plans and strategies of company by undertaking the effective achievement of
goals regarding the growth and success (Yang and et. al., 2020). For this, suitable characteristics
and roles of managers are discussed as:
Roles of managers: Monitoring: The managers of Cranswick leads to perform several task in a day and for
this, monitoring plays an important role by the managers and management to ensure
regarding the suitable requirements and resources to perform effective task in prominent
way. Negotiation: Here, managers plays an important role to have proper negotiation from the
side of company undertaking the external environment and identification of internal