Management and Operations - Leadership
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1Management and Operations
2TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION .........................................................................................................................................................2TASK 1...........................................................................................................................................................................3a) Defining and comparing the different roles and characteristics of leader & a manager.......................................3b) Explaining with examples the role of a leader and the function of a manager is applied in different situations within an organization...............................................................................................................................................3C) Applying theories and models of leadership approach including situational leadership, systems leadership andcontingency ..............................................................................................................................................................4d) Analysing and differentiating between the role of a leader and function of a manager by effectively applying arange of theories and concepts..................................................................................................................................5e) Assessing the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to situations within the work environment.....5f) Analysing and evaluating the different theories and approaches to leadership ....................................................6TASK 2...........................................................................................................................................................................8a) Explaining the key approaches to operations management and the role that leaders and managers play............8b) Explaining the importance and value of operations management in achieving business objectives..................10c) Assessing the factors within the business environment that impact upon operational management and decision-making by leaders and managers.............................................................................................................................10d) Evaluating leaders and managers efficiencies of operational management to successfully meet the business objectives.................................................................................................................................................................11e) Analysing different factors in (c) that affect the business environment and wider community.........................11f) Evaluating application of operations management and factors that impact on the wider business environment for organization.......................................................................................................................................................12REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................................................13
3INTRODUCTIONLeadership and managers hip are not related terms as many believed, for one to lead, hedoes not require the managerial position of leadership, but for a manager to be consideredcompetence enough, he must possess traits of leadership in him. A manager has to provideleadership to the organization, or to junior staff and his group at large. A successful managermust perform the following functions if he is to achieve the set goals, for himself or theorganization that is Planning, Organizing, staffing, directing and controlling. As we can see,leadership is part of the functions hence leadership term is not related to Manageraliship at all(Northhouse, 2007)TASK 1a) Defining and comparing the different roles and characteristics of leader & a managerA leader is a leader by qualities, an example of the class prefect, youth group leader,women group leader. They are not necessarily managers but leaders out of their positivecharacter that attracts those who are in dire needs of leadership. A manager can be a leader, buta leader cannot necessarily be a manager. Manager pushes people to do things to achieve somegoals but a leader will inspire people into acting, and together they work toward achieving goals.Manager vs. Leader Personality/characteristics Every society gives an answer as to who is a leader with each society having differentanswers to that question that expresses concerns on purpose, distributing and use of the powerthat comes with leadership. The business world has produced and evolved new kind ofleadership in the name of managers and at the same time establishing new power custom thatemphasizes on collective leadership over individual leadership. Ensuring the capability, courage,sharing of power between an individual with the potential of managerial leadership but does notnecessarily promotes creativity, innovation and ethical behaviors in giving corporate directionsto its destiny of successful enterprises. Leadership emphasizes on power to influence howindividual acts (Northhouse G,, 2007).
4Leaders and their role in organization :A leader in an organization may be either formally orinformally assigned whereby for a leader to be assigned his ability to perform the job mustconvincing, like organization skill, directing skill while informally, it is based on his character,experience or his relationship with colleagues.Boosting morale :A leader involves him pulling everyone together and inspire them inworking toward a common goal, He lets the employees know how much he is appreciating hiswork with few surprises like a birthday party of an employee and company party.Setting the Vision :A leader will influence employee to adopt the vision of theorganization and accept the future sate of the organization. He makes the employee own thevision of the organization hence work towards achieving it.Motivator: Apart from giving morale to the employee, he goes further to inquire on theneeds of the employee and meeting their needs and praise for good job they have done. Thiscommunicate with the employees that the organization cares. Guidance: A leader defines the role in the work process and provide them with what isrequired to perform their tasks after explaining the tasks itself and being available to assist whereneed be.b) Explaining with examples the role of a leader and the function of a manager is applied in different situations within an organizationThere are several risks when power is in hand of one person, whereby he might equatepower with ability to get immediate results and risk of forgetting theta there other was of peopleacquiring power in a legitimate way and a risk of losing self-control in the process of obtainingpower. Through conservatism and inactivity different companies gives a sequence to power bydeveloping manager instead of one single leader amusingly this ethic develops an irresponsibletrend in the organization, of which it us support to be the source of protection againstencroachments and controls of bureaucracy in government and education.A manager concentrated on control, the manager is a problem solver and looks for thebest way of achieving results that will ensure people keeps on contributing to the organization'sgrowth hence leadership is like a calling to direct affairs through particular efforts. Several
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