Management and Operations

Management and Operations

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LO1..................................................................................................................................................1
Leader and Manager....................................................................................................................1
LO2..................................................................................................................................................3
A Leader and a Manager for Different Situational Contexts.......................................................3
Leadership Approaches................................................................................................................4
LO3..................................................................................................................................................7
Approaches to Operations Management......................................................................................7
Importance of Operations Management.......................................................................................7
LO4..................................................................................................................................................8
Influencing Factors......................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Management and operations are major parts of any organization. Management comes
under major activities of top-level management. In other hand operations are that all activities
which management operate or regulate for the purpose of achieve organization's decided goals.
In any business all operations are supervises by top-level management. Operations' includes
some major organization's activities, like; manage efficiency, manage people, manage
production, marketing, finance management, market research, etecetra. These all activities are
completely handling and controlling by upper management of the organization. The main
objectives of the management is to smoothly run necessary operations at any target place for
gain productive results from activities of operations. Operations management is one of the major
tasks of organization which always work for profit maximization. This is discusses management
and operations aspects of Tesco. It is a top British retail company which has the largest
supermarket chain within its home country the United Kingdom.
LO1
Leader and Manager
A leader can be defined as basically a person in company who is responsible for leading
the people or employees which comes under their command. The major role of leader is to
guide, teach, rules, and inspires their employees or team members. The characteristics of a leader
include leading people, Motivating them, creating effective teamwork and improving
performance.
A manager on the other hand is a person who is responsible for administration and
controllability of the company. The manager plays great role in the observation of all activities
and operations which company run to gain high profit. Manager is a person who is a planner,
decision-maker, order giver and motivator.
Difference Between a Leader and Manager
A leader and manager play great role in the all operations of Tesco. Without these
company can't achieve its decided goals in market easily (Naqshbandi and Jasimuddin, 2018).
Both are putting great efforts in the company's specific operations. Here is included some major
differences between a leader and manager below;
Supervision: The leader and the manager, both are has responsibility for supervise activities of
the company. In which leader only responsible for supervise a team or a group of employees. In
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other hand the manager's responsibility is to supervise and manage all aspects of the company
including employees.
The leader also supervise by the manager within Tesco. The manager is able to give
necessary orders to the leader. Here is the leader is responsible to take orders from manager and
follow them at their workplace. The manager is comes under the top-level management of
company and leader mostly comes under middle-level management.
Inspiring and Planning: The leader is always work for inspire and motivate to employees or
people which comes under their command. The major task for leader is to effectively maintain
workability and efficiency or employees (Becker, 2018). It always needs to implement some
people management strategies at their workplace for make employees inspired.
In other hand manager is focuses on make and prepare effective planning for company
for gain higher profit in market. Planning is first task for the manager. In which it plans and take
necessary decisions on the basis of its learning and observation. The main objective behind
manager's planning task is to maintain progressive path of the Tesco.
Decision-Making and Implementation: Most of the major decisions within company are taken
by manager. The manager takes some specific decisions for growth of company in any market
segment. In this case the manager is necessarily needed to use its decision-making skills for take
effective decisions.
In other side leader is responsible to implement that manager's decisions within Tesco's
business environment. The leader also has authority to take decisions but not like a manager
(Zaech and Baldegger, 2017). The leader is able to take decisions, but only related to its
workplace, like; provide needed training sessions to the employees, etc. Main role of the leader is
to implement such tasks within company's operations which mentioned in manager's decisions.
Similarities Between a Leader and Manager
There are many similarities between the leader and manager in the Tesco. In which some
major similarities are discusses below;
Focuses on Improve Performance: The leader and the manager both are always focuses on
performance aspect. Both always try to put their highest efforts at respective workplace for
improve the all over performance of the Tesco in international market. The leader provides some
training sessions and seminars to employees for improve their workability and performance in
company's operations.
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