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Management and Operations Assignment - (Unilever)

   

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MANAGEMENT ANDOPERATIONS

Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3P1 Comparison between roles and characteristics of a leader and a manager............................3TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5P2 Role of a leader and function of a manager in different situational contexts........................5P3 Different theories, including situational leadership, system leadership and contingency.....6TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7Covered in PPT...........................................................................................................................7TASK 4............................................................................................................................................7Covered in Booklet.....................................................................................................................7CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTIONManagement and operations is an administration that create highest level of effectivenessand efficiencies within the organisation. It focus on converting materials and labour in goods andservices so that effective results should be achieve. It is an multidisciplinary approach, concernedwith planning, organising and supervising in concerned with production, manufacturing andservices industry. It focusses on delivery of services to ensure that organisation and its majorcomponents give their contribution to turn inputs into outputs in an effective manner. In Inputsincludes materials, tools and techniques and human resources. This report is based on Unileverthat is a British- Dutch transnational consumer goods company. Its headquarter is in London. Itdeals in Food and beverages, cleaning products with beauty and personal care products. It isseventh most valuable company of Europe. This report is based on Role and characteristics ofleader and manager and differences also. Further it elaborates role of leader and function ofmanager in different context and situations with different theories and approaches. It alsoincludes factors that influence organisational environment and its various factors. It elaboratesoperation management and its approaches that help in increase efficiency.TASK 1P1 Comparison between roles and characteristics of a leader and a manager.Leader: Leader is an individual who influence and give direction to other person by theirviews and thoughts and influence to achieve targets and objectives. A good leader is one who inpositive manner influences behaviour of others such as president of a country influencesbehaviour of others by giving their direction and their decisions followed by all people. In caseof Unilever, leader plays major role in framing rules and regulations and guide their subordinates

by giving them direction so that they help in organisational goals and objectives (Alderton andSaieva, 2013).Role of leader:Leaders gives mission and vision to employees of Unilever so that by accessing owncapabilities they give their best in organisational development (De Roover,2017 ).Leader also gives inspiration and shared vision to the employees so that theyaccessing directions give their best in organisational development. Leaders build teams by accessing their qualities and skills and accordingly distributetasks and responsibilities so that they give their best in organisational development.Characteristics of leader:Leader have the good communication ability so that they can communicate in bettermanner with their subordinates and resolve conflicts (Galindo and Batta, 2013). In caseof Unilever it test communication skills of their participants. Leader should be innovativeenough so that their subordinates get inspiration and learn from them.Leader have the power to motivate others by their work and behaviour.Manager:Manager is the job title that is generally use in organisation to denote that employee whohave some specific roles and responsibilities to deal or lead with employees and departments.Managers directly report to their employees and give their major contribution in organisationalsuccess (Hitt, Xu, and Carnes, 2016).Role of manager:Decision-making: Managers play very important role in controlling and helps whileadopt changes in organisation. Manager of Unilever is responsible for resolve variousconflicts that arise in organisation and give directions to their subordinates so that theycan give their effective contributionInterpersonal skills: Managers are work as a inspiration for their subordinates so theyhave all qualities that majorly contributes in organisational development and progress.Manager have to communicate in internal and external both environment so that they canshare information to others in Unilever and get best results out of them.

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