Leadership and Management: Theories and Approaches in Marks and Spencer, Tesco, and Sainsbury's

Leadership and
Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Definition of Leader and Manager..............................................................................................1
Hard Vs Soft Skills......................................................................................................................1
Application of leadership and management theories in the workplace.......................................3
Comparing at least two other organisational examples to compare the different styles of
leadership and management approaches.....................................................................................4
An examination of different leadership and management approaches taken to evaluate their
effectiveness and the impact that the role of leadership and management has on organisational
culture and performance..............................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Leadership is defined as the ability of an individual to organise and guide group of people
as well as influence them to accomplish organisational objectives. Management is the described
as the process where organisations control and organise their employees in order to make them
productive to achieve aims (Chen, 2018). The following report discuss about different leadership
theories that are essential for companies to implement. The following report discuss about
different leadership and management theories executes in Marks and Spenser. Marks and
Spenser is a multinational retailer business in UK and has its headquarter in London.
Furthermore, it has also been discussed how leadership styles are different in Tesco and Marks
and Spencer along with Sainsbury's. Lastly factors that impacts development of culture in
organisation has also been discussed in this report.
MAIN BODY
Definition of Leader and Manager
Leader is defined as a personality who possess an ability to lead or command a group of
people. Leaders have a capability to transfer their visions into reality while influencing people
around them to accomplish them effectively. They are considered as individuals who could see
how things could be improved and who rallies people to move forward in order to develop better
vision.
Managers are defined as those individuals who are accountable for managing and
controlling group of people in an organisation (Grant, 2017). These people are responsible for
providing guidance to employees and motivating them for the purpose of achieving success for
particular organisation. They deal with handling employees and customer related issues such as
conflicts, providing better services and many more.
Hard Vs Soft Skills
Hard skill are defined as those abilities which an individual acquire through training and
implement in specific job positions. On the other hand soft skills are described as capabilities of
a person which they have embedded in their personalities. In context to that hard and soft skills
of leaders as well as managers are explained below in detail:
Hard Skills for leaders
1