Leadership and Management Theories: TESCO Case Study

ORGANISATION
LEADERSHIP
&MANAGEMENT

Table of Contents
Illustrate the theories of leadership and management.........................................................................3
Differences between Leadership and Management....................................................................4
Similarities between leadership and management......................................................................5
Analyse the training, development and leadership of the organisations..............................................6
Examine leadership development programme from NHS Leadership Academy ...............................8
Evaluate the programme and analyse the elements..............................................................................8
Analyse and evaluate benefits of leadership programme.....................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Leadership and behaviour both plays a very important role for the success of every business
organization. The leader is a person who encourage the employees towards achieving the goal and
objective of business organization within given period of time. On the other hand, the management
of company make effective strategy, policies and procedure in order to perform business activities
and functions within given time period. In relation of TESCO, the leader focuses on motivating
subordinates to work well within company. Whereas, the manager focuses on build appropriate plan
of action for accomplishing objective in stipulated time period. They both imposes direct impact on
productivity and performance of business organization in order to increase future success and
growth of business organization. In addition to this, the academic theory directly affect the activities
and functions which is performed by company. This report is carried out on the basis of TESCO. It
is one of the largest chain of supermarket located in UK which deal in wide variety of product and
services. The main objective of the leader and manager is to stimulate the confidence level of
subordinate towards performing well in company. This report shows different leadership theory
which impact the productivity of company. Also they discuss about conducting effective training
and development session for increasing the skill and knowledge of individual in order to perform
well in the company. Along with this, they discuss about leadership development program for NHS
academy. Therefore, they shows how leadership and management both affect the productivity and
proficiency of business organization.
Illustrate the theories of leadership and management.
Leadership and Management both play a vital role in success of any organisation. Leadership is
meant by influencing people to share a common goal and work for it whereas Management is to
arrange various tasks and operations of a company in a way as they are expected to happen. The
goal of an effective management and leadership is to deliver suitable and sustainable services to the
people. It is possible only if the key assets such as human resources, monetary values, hardware and
other measures are properly coordinated. Great leaders must need to be great managers as great
managers must acquire leadership skills to win (Renz, 2016).

There are various theories which describe the relations and differences about the essential
qualities of leadership and management. Both of these are vital for every organisation for their
existence(Thorpe,2016).
In context of TESCO which is one of the well established chain of supermarkets in UK, the
manager focuses on leading and managing the team members in such a way that can balance the
organisation and keeps workforce influenced.
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To understand the importance of Leadership and Management, the individual description of each of
them can be studied below-
Leadership
Leadership can be defined as an art of motivating and guiding people to achieve the goals
and objectives in a determined way. Leadership consist of several qualities which make it similar to
management and there are some which make it different. Management is considered as a source of
managing things in an organised manner. Management exists in every organisation as it is the root
of it.
Leadership lets the subordinates follow their team leaders and come ahead to put efforts for
a shared vision. In context of TESCO, the team leaders and managers apply the formative style of
democratic leadership to attain the desired goals of the company.(Armstrong, 2016).
Democratic leadership can be understood as a type of leadership where a leader
acknowledges the required changes, hears the voice of subordinates and support them to achieve
expected growth of the organisation.
Management
Management is the process of administrating various activities and jobs to set up the
strategies and attain organisational objective. A manager aims to unite all available resources within