Comparison of Roles and Characteristics of Leaders and Managers

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.
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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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