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Management and Operations Assignment - Toyota organisation

   

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MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3P1 Definition and roles, difference between and characteristics of both managers and leaders 4P2. Different roles of management and leadership in application to different organisationalsituations, supported by theories and concepts.......................................................................6P3. Strengths and Weaknesses of different approaches to leadership and management........7TASK2 ............................................................................................................................................8P4 Key Operational Approaches to Operation Management and their Values for Toyota..10P5 Importance and value of operations management in achieving Business objectives of anorganisation .........................................................................................................................11P6 Evaluation of Impact of External Business Environment Factors on Toyota.................12CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................15REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................16
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INTRODUCTION Operations management is the administration of entire business practices to develop thehighest level of efficiency and effectiveness. It is related with converting materials into goodsand services. In this report, Toyota is a given organisation which was founded by Kiichiro in1933. The first production of Toyota was Type A engine and first passenger car was Toyota AA.It is a Japanese manufacturer company. This report covers different tasks which includes,different characteristic and responsibility of leader and manager to deal all business situationeffectively. At last, impact of external factors and values of operation management is also coverin this project. TASK 1Introduction to the organisation you have chosen and its management structureToyota is a company of automotive sector which includes designing, manufacturing,development, marketing and selling of motor cars. (Burns, 2014). Toyota are selling near around10 million vehicles every every and have more than 350,000 workers working for them at currentposition. Company holds its business worldwide in 28 countries for manufacturing process and itsells its vehicles in more than 150 countries. At present every company uses organisationalstructure and even Toyota does the same for achieving goals. The different managementstructure that Toyota uses are listed below:
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Illustration 1: Organisational structure of Toyota (Source: Organisational structure of Toyota, 2018)Global Hierarchy: Although company have shown the significant growth in recent timebut still the uses the centralise business system where the regional head and business unithead will report to companies global headquarter in Japan. Geographic division: At present, Toyota have divided its structure in eight regionaldivisions among Japan, Europe, North America, China, Asia and Middle East, Asia andOceania , Africa, and Latin America and Caribbean. (Chiarini and Vagnoni, 2015). Product-based division The main feature management structure is product-baseddivisions where company have divided department in four categories and they are: LexusInternational, Toyota No.1 for operations in Europe, Japan and North America. P1 Definition and roles, difference between and characteristics of both managers and leaders Manager can be defined as a responsible person who is in-charge for controlling,administering the department and staffs working under him. The main duty of managers is toensure compliances with health and safety legislation (De Roover, 2017). Leader can be defined as a person who have the superior power in his field, who orderstheir inferior to perform particular task. Difference between Manager and Leader
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