Management and Operations in Ford Motor Co : Report
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Management and Operations in Ford Motor Co : Report
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TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1P1 Roles and characteristics of leaders and managers................................................................1M1 Difference between the roles and responsibilities of leaders and managers........................3TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3P2 Implication of the role and function of a leader and manager in different situational contextof ford..........................................................................................................................................3P3 Applying various models, theories as well as situational leadership for management andleadership....................................................................................................................................5M2 Strength and weaknesses relevant with the work environment faced by management andleadership....................................................................................................................................7D1 Evaluating the different theories of leadership.....................................................................7TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8P4 Analysing the approaches of operational management.........................................................8P5 Evaluating the importance of Operational management for achieving the businessobjectives.....................................................................................................................................9M3 Improvements in operational efficiency by leaders and managers.......................................9D2 Implication of operational management which impacts in the business environment..........9TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................10CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11
INTRODUCTIONManaging the operational area of the firm needs the skilled and qualified leader which inturn helps the firm in making the adequate decision as well as provide the fruitful solutions inwhich they can be able to have the favourable operational framework. Hence, in the presentreport there will be discussion based on the various roles and responsibilities of a leader,operational managers as well as other operational heads in Ford Motor Co. which in turnresponsible for enhancing the operational activities of the firm as well as generate the innovativeideas which will help in having the adequate profitability. The report will also shed some lightsover the implication of such leadership roles in context with achieving the objectives ofbusiness.TASK 1P1 Roles and characteristics of leaders and managers.Leaders and mangers both are integral part of an organisation in achieving its businessgoals and objectives (Taylor and Scapens, 2016). However, it should be recognised that the rolesand characteristic of them highly differs from each other. LeadersRolesChange Implementation: Leaders are the people who highly believes in taking risks thatcan expand the business. For this they emphasise on the innovative ideas that can beimplemented in the organisation (Garg and Dhar, 2016). Leaders of Ford should alsodevelop implement effective ideas and thoughts that can cope-up with the technologicaladvancements. Direction to employees: Leaders aims on rendering right direction to the employees sothat they can work effectively in the right direction.Employee Motivation: This is one of the most crucial role played by the leaders.Employee motivation helps in increasing work productivity. This in turn will increase theprofitability of Ford.Alignment: There exists one more significant role that should played by the leaders ofFord. Under this, they are required to assign tasks to right employees depending upontheir skills and abilities.Mangers:1
Roles Planning: Managers are those people who undergoes effective and detailed a planning ofall the activities that are going to be performed or implemented in the organisation.Managers of Ford are effective in this context as they realistic goals and then segregatetasks. Further, allocation of resources, budgeting, etc. are also a part of this planning.Organisation: Tasks segregated are then organised on the basis of their priorities. Later,all these activities are carried in effective manner by managers.Co-ordination: After organising all the business activities mangers are required tomanage co-ordination in them. This will assure quality in all the tasks (Mee San, and et.al., 2017).Monitoring: A consistent control and monitoring of the business operations is required tobe performed by a manager. Characteristic of leaders and mangers:Personal: As compared to managers, leaders are more open-minded. They communicatewith all the employees. Also, they listen to the ideas and thought of workforce and then come toa decision. On the other hand, managers takes the decisions and then discusses them with theleaders.Relationship with employees: Leaders emphasises on gaining trust of employees. Forthis, they maintain an effective relation with employees. Managers do not have any directconnection with the employees, they contact with them by the leaders,Grouping: Managers creates boundaries and does not allow everyone to cross that. Theymake groupings with the leaders and other mangers. In contrary to this, leaders develops goodrelations with all the employees. They believe in team working (Qu, Janssen, and Shi, 2017).Outcomes: Leaders do posses an ability to take risks. These risks are fort thedevelopment of the business. Whereas, in context to managers, they believe in maintainingstability in the business operations.Some general characteristics of leaders and managers are tabled below:FeatureLeadersManagersBehaviour characteristicsHears all employees. Aims onearning trust of employees.Sanity and control overjuniors. 2
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