Leadership and Management in Next Plc

Management and
Leadership

INTRODUCTION
Leadership and management are crucial and helpful for individual and organisational
success and development. Leadership is about getting individual to comprehend and believe in
the vision which is establish by business firm and to work on accomplishing set goals. Whereas
management is more about managing and assuring daily activities are happening as they should.
For the completion of this document, Next plc is company which is a British clothing
establishment (Bush, Bell and Middlewood, 2019). This venture was incorporated in 1864 and is
headquartered in Enderby, Leicestershire, England, UK. It specialises in clothing, footwear and
home products as well as operates its business globally with the help of around 700 stores. The
written report will considered information about key conception of leadership and management,
motivational and group working principles and theory to efficient style of administration and
guidance. Further, it will explain about the extent to which efficient leadership and management
give to organisational efficiency, effectiveness of leadership and management behaviour and
appropriate tools to facilitate change.
MAIN BODY
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To control the commerce of company in efficient manner, effective leadership and
management is necessary so that the firm sustain and survive in the market place as well as run
in effective manner. In world of leadership and management, there are several theories which
assist in operating the business of firm within a range of context and diverse environment. The
description of some key theories of leadership and management in context of Next Plc, as under:
Situational theory of leadership- This concept is developed by Hersey-Blanchard and it
proposes that no single guidance form is best. It based on which kind of leadership and
approaches are best matched to the task (Podsakoff and Podsakoff, 2019). As per this theory, the
most efficient leader are those who are capable to adapt their form as per the situation and
environment and look at cues like the form of work, nature of team and other aspects. Hersey
and Blanchard provided four primary guidance styles:
Telling- With this guidance form, the leader of Next plc can tell employee of the firm
that what they should do or how to do it. For example, if employees are performing in the group
in term of promoting the commodities and services of Next plc which is offered by it. Then,
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