Different Approaches & Theories of Leadership

Management and
Operations

Table of Contents
PART 1............................................................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1 Distinguish between manager & leader.................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
P2 Role of Leaders and managers in particular situations..........................................................5
P3 Different approaches & theories of leadership......................................................................6
PART 2..........................................................................................................................................10
Covered in PPT.........................................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERNCE...................................................................................................................................12

PART 1
INTRODUCTION
Operation's management is a business practise which has a aim of achievement of
efficiency in a business and improving overall profitability. This function involves designing and
keeping a control on different process and operational activities. Another part involves designing
of functions to make development of services and products (Harbi, , Viswanathan and Shamsi,
2018). This report is based on Corus which is a Tata steel Europe Ltd. Company having its
headquarters in London, UK. It covers various approaches related to operational management
which helps companies in making improvement of process and increasing their overall
profitability ratio. Further it includes various factors which posses impact on operational
management and decision making process by managers and leaders.
TASK 1
P1 Distinguish between manager & leader
All business entities are working for achievement of business objectives. For
achievement of these objectives it is essential for leaders to make planning and appoint leaders
for development of strategies. All the process in a organisation are made more cohesive by use of
appropriate styles of leadership (Blanco and 2018).
Leader in every organisation is a person who is responsible for leading and managing a
team or a groups in organisation. Members in teams are provide required guidance to various
team members so that they are able to work towards achievement of expect results and
objectives laid down by the top management of the organisation.
Concept of Manager and Management: Management is basically a concept used in
various functions such as planning, directing, organising and controlling various activities of a
organisation.
Managers are responsible for getting work done by overall workforce of the organisation
by making timely and proper allocation of responsibilities in a organisation.
Identification & comparison of role played by managers and leaders :
Managers & Leaders are playing very crucial role in achievement of success in laid down
objectives in case of Corus:

Leaders Managers
 A leaders always applies their creative
mind in planning for achievement of
various objectives as laid down by
senior management in the organisation.
 Leaders in Corus are working towards
providing required motivation to
employees by use of monetary or non
monetary initiatives (Chouksey and
Sirsikar, 2016).
 In corus leaders are inducing
employees to understand various
changes taking pace in external and
internal environment which are posing
impact on function performed by them.
 Managers of Corus posses the
responsibility of determining different
actions to be taken by employees in
their regular functioning.
 Mangers posses the responsibility of
allocating duties and tasks to be done
by employees accordance with their
competence level, potential and present
level of skills.
 Managers of Corus perform the
function related to planning,
organisation, directing and controlling
of all the activities.
Identification and Comparison of characteristics of a manager and a leader:
Characteristics of leaders & managers: There are certain characteristic which are possess by
leaders and managers in Corsu as discussed below:
 Effective communication: Managers in Corus have necessary skills required for making
timely communication so that overall performance level can be improved (Crema, and
Verbano, 2015).
 Solving issues: while employees & managers are performing various functions there are
lot of issues which can be faced by them such issues have to be dealt timely so that they
are not affecting overall functioning of Corus.
Characteristics of Leaders:
 Confident: Leaders in Corus posses high level of confidence as they are very suer about
various decision they have to make in the functioning of business. Also, they have high
amount of assertiveness required to attain respect from their subordinates.