Management and Operation: Roles of Leaders and Managers

Management and
Operation

INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................................................3
TASK 2.......................................................................................................................................................3
P1 Role of leader and function of manager..............................................................................................3
P2. How are roles of leaders and managers applicable in various situations............................................4
TASK 3.......................................................................................................................................................8
P4 Key approaches to operation management.........................................................................................8
P5 Value of operation management.......................................................................................................10
TASK 4.....................................................................................................................................................10
P6 Factors within business environment................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION.........................................................................................................................................11
REFERNCES...........................................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Management and operation plays a vital role in the growth and development of company
as it deal with a process of transformation of input into usable output that generate value to
organization as well as to customers (Williams, 2015).Along with this, it is essentially carried
with an aim of to perform efficient utilization of minimum resources to meet optimum customer
requirements. This report is based on Asda, which is one of the leadingandmultinational retailer
and it is commenced in the year of 1949. It is headquartered at West Yorkshire, England. In this
study, it covers role and function leader and manager, importance and approaches of operation
management, application of various leadership theories is also mentioned here.
TASK 2
P1 Role of leader and function of manager
Leadership and management are two distinctive and complementary system of action as
each one of them contains their own set of roles and characteristics which makes them different
from each other.However, for acquiring sustainable profitability, these two aspects must go hand
in hand and provide their full contribution towards the accomplishment of goals and objective in
an effective and productive manner. Hence, leadership is the action of leading, inspiring,
motivating and encouraging a group of individuals to pursuit a firm common goal on the other
hand management ids a process of dealing with or controlling employees or manpower in order
to achieve firm’s objective within prescribed time limit.Some of the role of Asda’s leader and
function of manager within business function are as given below:
Role of leader
Providing direction: Inan organization, there is different kinds of personnel which makes
theway to arise conflict of miscommunication or interest and it directly impact over Asda
operation and productivity. However, firm leader render proper guidance andgive all relevant
information which helps them to generate healthy working condition as well as enable Asda to
improve their profitability ratio in an impressive manner. For e.g. in today’s scenario of
marketplace, demand or trends are changing on frequent basis which effect Asda’s volume of
sales. In order to cope with this issue, Asdaimplement a strategic decision to meet the changes or

challenges which occurred in an industry that enable them to acquire innovative technologies
which lead them to obtain profit maximization.
Align employees: Under this, leader takes an initiative to provide all communication with
transparency in nature as well as examines each personnel potentiality in order to assign their
own role sand responsibilities which help Asda’s workforce to put their full contribution towards
the attainment of high level of productivity and proficiency rate.For e.g. being a reputed brand,
expanding business function to new geographical region is driving force to Asda growth.
Forachieving the same, its leader adapts democratic leadership that allow them to encourage its
personnel to provide their views r opinion regarding exploring business function. By this they
can attain increased level of profit margin and can gain competitive advantage.
Function of manager
Coordinate and control:Under this, manager measures results against plans by
establishingcertain standard and evaluate the performance, based on produced outcome Asda
manager make corrective course of action that led them to increase their sales growth and profit
margin. Moreover, they facilitate problem solving which is a continuous cycle in order to
accomplish firm objective productively without any hindrances or obstacle.
Organize:In this, Asda manager create and establish structure to accomplish defined set of plan
which they communicate it to employees and keep reinforcing it. Furthermore, they develops
staffing and assign responsibilities by finding best fit between people and task as well as
implement policies, procedures or system to monitor company’s progress in order to survive
among industry for a longer period of time.
Thus, it has been stated that leader and manager are two different concept or element as
they are interlinked with each other which motivates them to give accurate coordination and
cooperation for achievingfirm’s objective and profitability ratio within given time period in an
effective and competent manner.
TASK 2
P2. How are roles of leaders and managers applicable in various situations.
In an organization there are different types of services that are conducted by organization.
For this it is essential for business organization to create different types of business strategies as