Leadership vs. Management: Roles, Functions, and Theories Analysis

This report delves into the crucial distinctions between leadership and management, exploring their respective roles, functions, and the theories that underpin them. It begins by defining management as a multifaceted process encompassing planning, organizing, leading, motivating, and controlling resources to achieve business goals effectively. Operations management's role in production of goods and services is also highlighted. The report then contrasts leaders and managers, emphasizing leaders' visionary roles and risk-taking abilities versus managers' expertise in task execution. It examines various management theories, including contemporary, classical, and leadership theories, such as trait, style, and transformational leadership. The analysis uses Starbucks as a case study, illustrating how these theories and styles are applied in a real-world business context to enhance performance and manage human resources. The report concludes that both leadership and management are essential for organizational success and that adopting appropriate management styles helps achieve common objectives.

Management and Operations

Table of Content
• Introduction
• Difference between role of leader and function of manager
• Conclusion

Management is procedures of planning, decision making process, organizing, leading,
motivating and controlling the financial, physical, human resources and resources
information of company to reach business goals effectually and efficiently. Operations
is a function of organizations, this function have major role in production of services or
goods and strategic.
Introduction

Management theory
Contemporary and seminal theories of management: It is a class of behavioral
theory which claims that there is no other better way to organize a corporation, to
lead an organizationnisation and making decisions. Instead, optimal course action is
contingent upon external and internal situations. In context of Starbucks, company
use various management theories to increase performance level, manage human
resource.
Difference between role of leader and function
of manager

Classical management theories: This theory is based on belief that employees only
have economic and physical needs. It does not take into account job satisfaction,
social needs but instead advocates a specialization of labor, decision-making,
leadership and profit maximization. Starbucks use this theory for full fill employee's
needs and expectation so it assist in better performance.
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Leadership v/s Management
Leader: A leader is the one with a different vision, which supports many by
presenting a positive point of view by being sympathetic and connecting with all for
achieving success with a lead or command. In relation with Starbucks, leaders are there
for success of selected business as key skill is communication. On basis of their verbal
skills the leaders moves company ahead, and keep developing it.

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 Roles Basis Leader Manager
VISION Leader is a far sighted person
as, he analysis upcoming
growth of business in market.
Managers are having expertise
knowledge in order to execute
several tasks.
RISK A leader takes risks and
strategy which they apply is
they create a base level of
ability in the most important
areas.
Managers always try to avoid
risk factor as they have
shortage of time in their
schedule.

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Characteristics
Basis Leader Manager
Time-management Have a proper set of schedule,
and never waste time. They
have a set list of priorities and
well organized email too.
They take-breaks and
communicate. Time for
planning is utilised more and
later that plan is well managed.
Reliability A help for a better job is there
as a reliability in case of a
leader in a business.
Manager should be reliable on
their capabilities and abilities.

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Functions of management
Planning: Requirement of good decision making for being aware of sudden conditions,
that might affect the business directly or indirectly. Such on spot actions are known as
planning. Various steps are involved in this, such as Environmental scanning. This
acknowledges them about Their competitors, Economic conditions and costumers they
are having. Planners can assume about future with this and can work on it. They cam
take required steps which can help them when required.

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Controlling: Control describes that a performance never gets stray from standards.
There are three steps of control in a management:
Developing performance standards.
Contrast of actual performance against standards.
Right step in action when necessary.
The measuring of performance can be done in various ways. Effective controlling can
be done in various ways, it is a power that a person or position is having in an
organisation.

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Leadership
Theories of leadership
Traits: This theory of leadership is based on characteristics of leaders both unsuccessful
and successful. It is used to predict effectiveness in leadership. Starbucks use this model
to measure performance of leaders so company can find effectiveness in performance.
Style: Leadership style is methods of leaders of providing better direction, plans
implementing and encouraging employees. Starbucks use style for providing right
direction to workforce so they focus on common goals and motivate entire organisation,
it helps in improve performance.

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Transformational leadership: This is a theory where a leader performs with a team to
fetch the required change.
Hard management skills: These skills refer to those who are as a strength in their
work and constant as well. These are gained through hard work and good education and
include software tools and many other machines.
Soft management skills: Skills are really weak and company might have spent life
developing. While managing time, communicating with other people and Organization
confront a difficult situation for first time.