Relationship between Leadership and Management in a Contemporary Business Environment

UNIT 4: MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS
LO4 Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between
leadership and management in a contemporary business
environment

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
The learner should be able:
 To assess the factors within the business
environment that impact upon operational
management and decision-making by leaders and
managers
 To do the analysis and evaluate the different
factors that affect the business environment and
wider community

TASK in the ASSIGNMENT
WORKSHEET
4.0 Factors within the business environment that impact upon operational management and
decision-making by leaders and managers
(Assess and analyse how these factors impact upon operational management and decision-making
by leaders and managers and wider community)
Corporate Culture
Corporate Values
Corporate Ethics
Corporate social responsibility
 Expectations of stakeholders
(Identify the stakeholders of Fruitapeel and state their expectations)

(Different dimensions of contemporary
business environment:
The relationship that leadership and
management have in the context of corporate
social responsibility; culture, values, ethics
and sustainability.
The relationship with stakeholders and
meeting stakeholder expectations in the
context of encouraging, developing and
sustaining entrepreneurship and
intrapreneurship)

Leadership and management in Contemporary
Business Environment
• In today’s global environment, organisations need to be
increasingly receptive to change, responsive, more
flexible and less structured
• The organisations are always dependent on the skills of
the senior management to get the right plan and
directions to act accordingly.
‘the job of leading company has never been more
demanding, and it will only become more
challenging amidst the global dynamism businesses
face today’ (also cited in Bertocci, 2009:3).

Operations and Business Environment
Corporate Culture
Corporate Values
Corporate Ethics
Corporate social responsibility