Comparison of Roles and Characteristics of Leaders and Managers

This study compares the roles and characteristics of leaders and managers in the context of management and operations. It explores the differences between their roles, their functions in various situational contexts, and the theories and models of leadership approaches. The importance of operations management and the role of leaders and managers in it are also discussed.

Management and Operations
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
LO1..................................................................................................................................................3
P1 Comparison of roles and characterstics of leaders and mangers.......................................3
M1 Differences between role of leaders and functions of manger.........................................4
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................5
P2 Role of leader and fucntion of manager in various situational contexts..........................5
P3 Theories and models of ledaership approaches...............................................................6
M2 Strengths and weaknesses of various approaches in company business situations.........7
D1 Theories and approaches of leadership.............................................................................7
LO 3.................................................................................................................................................8
P4 Important approaches to operations management and managers & leaders role play within
it..............................................................................................................................................8
P5 Value and importance of operations management in achieving ASDA objectives..........9
M3 Manager and leader improve efficiency of operational management............................10
LO 4...............................................................................................................................................10
P6 The factors impacting operational management and decision making by leaders and
managers...............................................................................................................................10
D2 Application of operations management and factors that impact on wider business
environment..........................................................................................................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13
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INTRODUCTION
Management and operations are two different terms but beneficial in context of
increasing sales and generate revenue even better. Administration can be defined as coordination
of actions and works that help achieving set objectives and goals of companies. These activities
include setting venture tactics and coordinate attempts of workers to complete aims through
implementation of accessible resources. Operations is another element of firms or functions that
contribute in gaining competitive edge, it include marketing, human resource, finance and
marketing. The current assignment will be based on ASDA, which falls under category of
leading supermarkets and multinational corporations in the United Kingdom.
This study will define characteristics and roles of leader and manager and their function
as well as duty in different situational context. It will explain varied models and concepts of
approach including system, contingency and situational leadership. Furthermore, this report will
justify key approaches of operations management & role of leaders and managers play with it. It
will also clarify significance and value of above term and elements within venture environment
that impact decision making and operational administration by management and leadership.
LO1
P1 Comparison of roles and characterstics of leaders and mangers
The role of leader and manger are highly varied from each other, which can be analysed
by working on the growth aspects and fundamentals diversification within their functional duties
towards company services.
 Leaders create vision and managers create roles: At Asda the leaders have role to create
informative innovative vision for longer working synergy and new functional segments,
towards larger goals innovation among employees. This role of leaders has specifically
been analysed as larger goals efficacy within wider scenarios and also for gaining
working information aspects productively and also to potentially motivate them within
varied scenarios. The managers on other hands has focus towards creations of specifics
roles and goals among operations at various departments for larger innovation, have
quick decision power within top management and also has been understood as one of the
new growth aspects (Bromiley and Rau, 2016).
 Leaders are the change agents but managers maintain status quo: This factor of
importance enables us to analyse importance of the fact that leaders are the change agents
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and new performance makers, among roles of employees by training and dynamically
building their potentialities widely. ASDA aims and specifically focuses on keeping staff
employees trained with varied dynamic skills, whereas role of manager is to maintain
status quo, discipline and monitoring the growth scenarios on larger aspects. Mangers has
role to employ best leaders within teams and also functionally make them actively work
towards new governed scenarios, whereas leaders focuses on monitoring team mates
employees performance towards targets with efficiency.
 Leaders are unique and mangers copy: This factor enables us to analyse leaders are
unique and managers copy where Asda has been competitively focusing on building new
effective leadership strategies, by monitoring and motivating employees on wider arenas.
The managers are working on framing new competitive strategies and functionally
working towards active diversification parameters, where potentially role of leader and
managers are widely stronger different (Chiu., Balkundi and Weinberg, 2017).The
managers have active focus on diversity steps where they operate focus towards new
functional innovation, larger informative decisions and duties on daily basis are moreover
same where there re larger growth scenarios. Asda has larger work new potentialities
where company aims to actively functionally focus on gaining new retail products
services and innovations goals on larger grounds.
The following comparison of differences has been focused on developing
differences within mangers and leaders working on various paradigms, to relatively focus
on various goals. Asda has been also gaining functional varied scenarios and new
effective marketing aspects by working on informative leadership styles, managerial roles
and also to potentially work towards new decisions which enhances new supervision
growth goals.
M1 Differences between role of leaders and functions of manger
The role and differences of leaders and functions of manger are widely diverse where the
role of leader is specifically focused on keeping up with employees training, performance
monitoring and new functional approaches by leading them with evocative decisions. The
function of manger on other hand is widely focused on performing goals formulation, strategic
objectives for company targets and new decisions which form leaders working base in longer
time frame (Čepel and et.al., 2018).
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LO 2
P2 Role of leader and fucntion of manager in various situational contexts
The role of leader and function of manger in various situational contexts are widely
different from each other where Asda has been working on building specific parameters and new
innovation scenarios, creative horizons and also to keep up with varied new levels of larger
revenue standards.
Role of leaders with examples of situations
Asda leaders has role to train employees with advanced services and factors of new goals
with technical efficiency and active innovation, where leaders have large functional role to keep
active focus on analysing employees skills and also to develop new informative decisions. The
brand has been successively working with varied new dynamic leadership styles and scenarios
for new growth paradigms to evoke motivation among employees and also to leverage new work
synergy for longer growth domains (Ganda, 2019). The leaders for example, when new
employees are recruited within business have functional scenario for keeping up with new
growth potentialities and also to train them towards their targets. Another example of role of
leader can be understood with the fact that there is larger creative expansion worked on to
supervise employees on varied new domains, work with larger growth synergy and also to
potentially held brainstorming sessions. Asda has been working on developing informative
leader’s role where they specifically focus on building strong talented teams with motivating
factors and also to govern new quest horizons.
Role and function of manger, with examples of situations
The role and functional approach of manager can be understood as widely important and
new competitive wide where company working profits scenarios are largely exploitative, widely
innovative and also have been working on specific new domains expertise. The role of manager
at Asda is to keep active monitoring and supervision of all work details, targets among teams and
to form new functional measure for larger new creative growth goals. Examples of situations can
be analysed with analysis towards the fact that manger has role to supervise all teams and
communicate with teams with various discussions for gaining informative decisions in longer
time frame. The work of manger is widely strong towards bringing on new decisions among
company where ASDA aims to w grow on new horizons, also for capital investments the
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manager holds responsibility to adopt various effective decisions. The role of manger has high
end goals for leveraging new strengths among various paradigms and also evokes larger goals
advancement, to be actively diverse and also focus on keeping up with new strategies. The role
of manger is also widely essential for stronger working growth of company overall performances
and to be actively wide dynamic on new aspect (Ivanov., Tsipoulanidis and Schönberger, 2017).
These factors also have in detail analysed varied differences within working scenarios,
roles and functional domains within roles of leaders and managers , to create new informative
work goals and also to potentially be active towards wide changes. Asda as one o the biggest
retail company having wide numbers of stores among global levels have wide informative reach
and also to operate with best leaders, mangers and also to leverage larger goals innovation on
wider domains of expertise.
P3 Theories and models of ledaership approaches
There are various theories and approaches of leadership which enable company to form
evocative wide decisions for new functional innovation and enlarged working theories, where
there are various scenarios analysed based on various fundamnetals for new fucntional
innovation.
 Situational leaderships: The situational leadership style can be undrerstood as one of the
infrromative adaptive innovatve leadership style where it encourages leaders to take
avrious new decisions and fucntional scenarios based on various goals. The ledaers can
no longer focus on working with only one specific style of management within company,
as their is wide formative focus on ernlarged vision for gaining informative syenrgy.
ASDA has been also operating focus towards new goals, parameters of strengths with
situational leadership analysis and new quest horizons.
 Contingency leadership: The contingency leadership is understood as one of the new
informative and highly dynamic leadership style where leaders have wide working
opportunities towards varied new growth segments of decisions , to bring on new
working growth scenarios and also to leverage focus on gaining new quest horizons
widely. Asda for being working with contingency leadership within working avenues will
be able to cater wide competitive new skills, train employees with informative diversity
standards and also focus on gaining efficacy among various paradigms. The contingency
leadership has evolved to be one of the largely active leadership style where various
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growth scenarios are widely analysed to functionally explore technical efficiency. Retail
industry growth competition has been building new domains specialisation within varied
aspects widely, and also to keenly bring new advanced functional exploration growth
scenarios (Bäckstrand and Engström, 2019).
 Transformational leadership: The transformational leadership can be understood as
another wide innovative leadership style where various growth paradigms such as new
horizons exploration goals syenergy have been widely used on to leverage focus on
varied aspects. Asda leaders have been training employees with new skills and expertise
parameters, for larger growth activities and customers based advanced competitive skills
for gaining larger new focused on revenue standards. The transformational leadership is
also actively working towards varied new domains expertise and larger growth goals
within varied horizons, to scope focus on new avenues for goodwill to be stronger and
also to potentially focus on wider innovation.
M2 Strengths and weaknesses of various approaches in company business situations
The strengths of situational approach is that the leadership style is flexible and also
highly dynamic, where there is focus towards training employees with various informative new
decisions which motivate employees to be active on varied changing business decisions.
Weaknesses of this theory can be analysed with the fact that employees should behold wider
understanding on varied growth arenas, and also focus on keeping up with diversity factors.
Strengths of the contingency leadership is focused on fact that leaders are able to take various
new decisions based on business demands within retail industry and also to be adaptive on
various decision. Weaknesses of this theory are based on fact that there is larger focus on
strategic planning, where new investments can be high for company to diversely implement
(Gaviria-Rivera. and López-Zapata, 2019).
D1 Theories and approaches of leadership
Transformational leadership is another new innovative leadership approach, where
leaders have strong focus to keep up with new skills transformations among employees as per
their varied targets, completion of new functional goals and larger focused avenues. Asda has
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been implementing this theory transform various new paradigms among aspects of working
goals, to also gain larger new skill domains actively.
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P4 Important approaches to operations management and managers & leaders role play within it
TQM-
Total quality management is the most effective approach because is work on daily basis
procedure in order to detect and monitor errors and then reduce it within range of operations of
ASDA include supply chain management, production etc (Pambreni and et.,al., 2019).
Organization can implement this method within all these operations as it help to improve product
quality, enhance consumer experience and assure applicants that they are up to great speed in
workplace.
Leader and manager role-
 Manager role with this approach is that he or she can help in monitoring each activity of
workers and also manufacturing process, which support business in term of reducing
errors in effective manner.
 Leader in TQM can play vital role by providing right guidance and directions to each
employee that help to reduce risk of failure in providing quality items to buyers.
Lean manufacturing-
It is one of the methodologies that totally concentrate on reducing waster within
production process while simultaneously increase productivity and sales even better (Indrawati,
Azzam and Ramdani, 2019). This approach of operations management is much effective as it
boost performance of ASDA and increasing their profits margin by identify, analysed and then
remove extra or unnecessary elements that consume a lot of time and efforts.
Role of leader and manager-
 Leader role in this method is to monitor activities of workers and provide right suggestion
to them in context of using everything properly without wasting it that save money.
 Manager role is to optimize overall process of production operation or function of ASDA
and define goods, services and unit of items.
Kaizen-
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This approach brings a lot of benefits for ASDA in term of improving quality of items
and increasing satisfaction level of consumers. It comprises five key elements that help
improving quality and provide more benefits to company. Team work, personal discipline,
quality circles, improved morale and recommendations for improvement are included in list of
Kaizen method in form of components.
Role of leader and manager-
 Leader can play their role by taking part in team work, which can enhance performance
and confidence level of staff.
 Manager with this approach can increase customers base of ASDA by developing
effective plans for workers with suitable suggestions relate to their daily activities.
Just in time-
JIT is strategic management approach or tactic that can help firm to delivery ranges of its
items to target segment as per their needs with appropriate quality, which can be consider by
people as value added element. It contrasts with just in case tactics, where in manufactures hold
sufficient inventories to have much items to absorb highest market demand.
Role of leader and manager-
 Leader role in this method is to be forward thinking and strategic management plan for
further.
 Manager duty is to align raw materials contracts from distributors directly with
manufacture schedules.
P5 Value and importance of operations management in achieving ASDA objectives
Operations management is one of the best administrations of supermarket business
activities to develop highest degree of efficiency possible within firm (Campos and et.al., 2019).
It is important for organization because of full concentration with transforming workers and raw
materials into products as effectively as possible that increase profitability even better. This
function is valuable for venture success and progress in retain sector for longer period of time as
it help Company to assure that all goods are delivered to target market on time without any
issues and mistakes. Operations management convert unprepared things into quality products and
add more value within it, it plays essential role by reducing waste or unnecessary elements to
excellent possible degree which is quite important and beneficial for supermarket. In recent time,
competition between existing players gives competitive experience to ASDA. At that moment
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operation management by managing daily activities and practices of company allow manager to
become competitive for other brands.
Above term can be considered as procedure that mostly plan, manage and monitor
production function and service delivery. It is significant in venture because operation
management contribute in managing, controlling and supervising employees, different functions
and operational departments. This is important in term of improving entire productivity of
company in ethical manner. Furthermore, it is essential function as it helps to assure that
operations manager are responsible for monitoring of product manufacture procedure
(Mahmoudi and Parviziomran, 2020). By considering that point they cater that right supply of
things is completed to achieve aims and objectives of firm. When this units is fulfilled, ASDA
can recognize that their goals to become global leader within retain industry can be achieved in
the future.
Operations management within chosen supermarket is valuable because it act as a great
change for company to be capable to analyse current needs that each buyer can have on firm
goods and services. Company can be able to use their key resources such as raw materials to
produce final grocery and other goods in most effective possible manner.
M3 Manager and leader improve efficiency of operational management
Managers and leaders are the main stakeholders of ASDA who are able to improve
operational efficiency of business which in return strength firms to achieve their set goals and
objectives in effective manner. Manager by developing monitoring plans and training systems
strengthen existing and new workers to contribute in competitive environment effectively. As it
help supermarket to meet its venture objectives and consumers needs as well.
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P6 The factors impacting operational management and decision making by leaders and managers
There are various factors of business environment within operational scenario where
company leaders and mangers have to practically focus on for new decisions making power on
wider arenas for growth on active levels. These factors of business environment are based on
culture, company structural growth aspects, ethical business practices and varied shareholders
management for gaining informative decisions. External business has strong working impact
among decisions management in longer time factor where Asda aims to competitively be diverse
and largely active on varied aspects within retail industry.
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 Organisation culture: Asda focuses on building new functional exploration paradigms
to evoke new functional working synergy and also evoke focus towards innovation, based
on company goals where services are developing new innovation growth within varied
scenarios. The company internal structure enables management for actively growing on
new domains specialisation, active growth within various varieties of products and
services. Macro environment parameters: The external business environment has various wide
new functional paradigms where Asda has to focus on for gaining on new working
growth scenarios and also to competitively gather parameters based on which
management has to impose varied aspects. Political factors, economic factors, social
factors, technology factors, legal factors and environmental factors are the working
external paradigms and also for gaining functional advancement for larger goals
advancement (Coughlan and et.al., 2018).
 Preferences of customers: There are various external factors based on varying
consumers preferences within varying growth goals, where it has been understood as
largely essential for gaining new keen growth subjectively and also to potentially work
on new business propositions. This factor holds wide importance for analysis to be highly
effective for company to take best working decisions, also potentially be active towards
varied new decisions and also focus on larger yielding synergy on major new decisions.
Asda has also to potentially focus on varied new aspects of consumers preference
services and also variably grow on larger goals.
 Technology factors: The external business technology factors are also widely focused on
gaining informative new decisions for gaining new functional decisions based on varied
goals, where external technology factors are widely focused on gaining new revenue
parameters and consumer goodwill. The retail industry is widely growing where new
quest horizons are widely focusing on, where Asda aims to be technically advanced and
also for growth scenarios which are widely growing on larger scenarios (Cepel and et.al.,
2019).
M4 Various factors affect the business environment and wider community
The various factors such as business domains specialised growth factors have wide
influence among working scenarios for gaining informative decisions and also for gaining larger
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new goals worked on widely. External and internal business factors within wide changing
industry aspects are highly informative and essential for company to focus on, and also for
leveraging larger goal advancement innovation. Consumers often look for best digital marketing
strategies, and also to keenly grow with new functional innovation and also for products which
build new larger vision .
D2 Application of operations management and factors that impact on wider business
environment
The applications of operations management and factors of functional innovation has
strong positive impact on wider business environment domains and expertise fundamentals
where larger scenarios are worked on, also there is specific new extensive diverse innovation
which grows revenue and goodwill standards Asda leaders and mangers have strong role to play
as per the changing work scenarios among customers preferences and larger vision forming
evocative performance goals.
CONCLUSION
By summing up above discussion, it has been concluded that leader and manager by
playing their roles in ASDA and accomplish their responsibilities effectively managed operations
and functions of business. Both stakeholders by using this traits and abilities handled each
situation very impressively and smartly which is quite beneficial for success and excellent
progress of company while operated supermarket in retail industry. Furthermore, it has been
summarized that manager and leader by utilizing situational, systems and contingency leadership
theories efficiently solved every problems and resolve two different types of conflicts. Kaizen,
lean manufacturing, just in time and total quality management approaches are quite beneficial for
ASDA in term of increasing profitability, sales, revenue and productivity. Moreover, it has been
identified that operations management played important role in firm by achieving objectives of
supermarket in systematic manner. Leader and manager within chosen brand successfully
overcome negative impact of external factors by taking right decision.
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