Leadership and Management in Tesco Plc
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3MAIN DISCUSSION......................................................................................................................3(a) Define concepts of management and leadership and highlight the differences between thetwo................................................................................................................................................3(b) Discuss and analyse ONE leadership theory comprehensively.............................................6(c) Analyse a management development program for the TESCO Plc.......................................9CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14
INTRODUCTIONLeadership and management is an organisational context has been defined as a necessaryconcept which has ruled working in any environment in an effective manner. On one hand,where, leadership means leading people front and also motivating them to perform work in anproductive way to do any work (Galloway, 2017). In addition to this, management has beenrecognised as a structure, whose major focus is to manage and control people in an organisationin an effective and cumulative manner. This report will be carried on TESCO plc, which is aBritish leading multinational groceries and general merchandise retailer and headquartered inWelwyn garden city, England. TESCO is the third largest retailer in the world which is measuredby the gross revenue and ninth largest retailer in the world. Apart from this, report will be cover on difference between concepts of leadership andmanagement and also it will also put its major focus on understanding a role and function ofleader and manager within an environment of an organisation. Also, report will also focus ondiscussion on one leadership theory with priority to its critical analysis. Lastly, report will alsofocus on an execution of management development program in the retail sector. MAIN DISCUSSION(a) Define concepts of management and leadership and highlight the differences between the twoLeadership and management are two both similar look like concepts with priority towardsempowering manpower in a business entity. This two concepts are highly focused on leading andcontrolling people from front of the initiative to led effective management of rules and policiesof defined business entity. These two concepts are raised with priority to give importance to legaland effective working into the business entity to accomplish their defined goals & objectives inthe given period of time (Gopee, 2018). On one hand, where leadership predicts about acomplete leader, while on other hand, management tells about its initiative or control from theperspective of functions defined under the management theory or concepts. Leader is a person which holds dominant or superior position into a field and which isable to exercise a high degree of control or kind of influence over the others. That person wholeads different nature of people at one point of time and solving their queries in minimum pointof time. On other hand, manager is one who performs five different function of managementsuch as planning, organising, staffing, directing and controlling. These functions are hierarchy of
change management with major purpose to raise business suitability and accomplishing definedtargets in the given point of time (Hallinger and Bryant, 2013) There is no need to makecomparison between leader and manager, as both entity are perfect in their self behaviour andexpertise in their respective matter of state or development and changing an organisationalscenario at the greater context. In UK, business entities are facing an issue related to ineffective leadership or decreasingrole of leaders in reality or management has been taken by people on self basis. In response tothis, organisational functioning has been affected on larger basis and also led to impact overproductivity and efficiency. In last two to three years, TESCO has faced an issue of ineffectivemanagement such as lack of prominent planning, clear cut organising, hiring of a people and lackof sufficient control process (Vaccaro and et. al., 2012) In context with leadership, leaders are nomore interested to shown their matter of interest as a reason of lack of priority to them or mightbe TESCO is not showing any such specific interest in role of leader. To find appropriate solution over this matter, it is important to understand roles andfunction of manager and leader who empowers people in an organisation. Such discussion overrole and function of leader and manager will be taken into the consideration for TESCO Plc areas follows: Leading people to develop tells about the major role of leader to develop different kindof people to find out their weakness and to convert it into their major strength. For this, leaderneeds to be focus on their defined roles and responsibility, so that they could realise actual taskto do and initiate a purpose to develop people at a higher level. Utilisation of the given resource is a kind of situation where, Leader is one who iscompletely responsible to utilise resources of the company to make people more developed ormotivated, so that they will do their work in the given point of time. Generally, management isone, who allocates resources to leader and that person utilises resources in empowerment of thestaff and team work. Roles and functions of manager has been categorised in three different types such as:interpersonal, informational and decisional role. Th discussion is as below: Interpersonal involves figurehead, a leader and liaisonInformational Under this role, priority is use to given for monitoring, dissemination anda major way of being act as spokes person.
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