Leadership and Management Concepts

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Unit Number and Title Unit 2 – Marketing Essentials
Title Leadership and Management Concepts (Part 1)
Leaders and Operations Management (Part 2)
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Table of Content
Assessment Part 1
1. An introduction to the college/ chosen organisation
management structure p
2. Definition and roles of both managers and leaders,
highlighting the differences between management and
leadership p
3. An analysis of the different roles of management and
leadership in application to different organisational
situations, supported by theories and concepts
p
4. An evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of different
approaches to leadership and management to draw
conclusions that support theories of leadership
p
5. Conclusions on how managers and leaders have made an
impact on the organisation and recommendations for
future improvements p
References p
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1.0 An introduction to the college/ chosen organisation
management structure
For this report Tesco Company is taking into consideration. It is a British
multination retailer company. Which is a public limited company founded by Jack
Cohen in 1919. It’s headquarter is in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England,
UK. It deals in supermarket, hypermarkets, superstore and convenience shop and so
on. It has almost 7005 shops located at different countries and almost 423,092
numbers of employees are successfully working with it. Selected company expand
their business globally in 1990 with operations in 11 other countries in the world. It
diversified its business area in retailing of books, clothing, electronics, furniture, toys,
petrol, software, financial service, telecoms and internet service are also provided by
Tesco. Selected organisation management structure is based on hierarchical
structure. In which all important decision are taken by higher authorities and various
positions and obligations are divided into many parts for effectively doing work and
achieving organisation goal.
2.0 Definition and roles of both managers and leaders,
highlighting the differences between management and
leadership
Managers- It refers to a person who manage all work of an organisation. It will
show direction to its subordinates and helps in achieving the goal of organisation
(Alhefiti, Ameen and Bhaumik, 2019). It is responsible for supervising and motivating
employees for enhancing the overall performance of organisation. It was an
responsible part of an organisation. Main objective of a manager is to set the role in
the organisation. Manager of an organisation is emphasis on the things and activity
and it allocate work to every employee.
Leaders- It refers to a person who guide and motivate a group of people towards
the achievement of common goal. Main objective of a leader is to guide other
employees of organisation. It’s the responsibility of leader to effectively communicate
the policies set by higher authority of organisation. It emphasis on the entire
employees. It helps an organisation by motivating employees and increasing their
efficiency towards a particular task.
Roles of manager and Leaders
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Role Manager Leader
Strategy Main role of a manger is to
effectively analysis the
situation of organisation and
formulate a effective strategy
which helps in achievement of
organisation goal.
Main role of a leader is to
effectively implement the
policies or strategy
formulated by manger of
organisation with the help
of staff, employees and
subordinates.
Communication Manager of a company needs
to effectively communicate
with their subordinates and
clearly define the objective of
organisation (Bush, 2018).
Main role of a leader in
organisation is use
effective communication
with their employees which
motivates them and make
them successfully achieve
organisation goal.
Differentiate between leadership and management.
Basis Leadership Management
Meaning It refers to a skill which is used
by a leader for lead other
people for to motive of
achieving effective outcome.
It refers to an art of
organising and controlling
various activities of an
organisation in an effective
and efficient manner so
that goal of organisation is
successfully achieve.
Emphasis on It is emphasis on inspiring and
guiding people of organisation.
It is emphasis on managing
different activity of an
organisation.
Formulation on Leadership is formulated on
the bases of various
guidelines and principles.
Management is formulated
on the basis of procedures
and policies of
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