Difference in Role of leader and Function of manager in Asda

Management & Operations

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
LO1. ................................................................................................................................................3
P.1 Difference in Role of leader and Function of manager in Asda............................................3
P.2. Application of role of leader and functions of managers in different situations in Asda.....4
P.3. Theories and Models of Leadership.....................................................................................6
LO3..................................................................................................................................................8
P4 : The key approaches to operations management and the role that leaders and managers
play...............................................................................................................................................8
P5 : The importance and value of operations management in achieving business objectives of
the ASDA...................................................................................................................................10
LO4................................................................................................................................................11
P6 : The factors within the business environment that impact upon operational management
and decision-making of the ASDA............................................................................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Asda stores Ltd is a supermarket retailer chain. It, s headquarter is at Leeds, Yorkshire,
United Kingdom. Asda stands for Associated Diaries. It is UK's second largest supermarket
chain. It is considered as one of the largest retail stores of the UK has to function many of the
management functions such as planning, organizing, implementing and evaluation for its
efficiently results. But along with these another role also plays a major role in the organizational
success that is leadership. Leader is the only person which is responsible to lead the particular
team or group at the work place. Leader provides task to the employees which are comes under
their command (Winston, 2018). So both the leadership and management are simultaneously
important for the organization success as well as for attainment of organizational goals
efficiently. Besides from this it is also important to select the appropriate leadership approach for
leadership. Here manager plans and organize the overall functions of the organization in the
same way leader is responsible for its right implementation. In Asda all managerial decisions
point to attain increased sales target over the time. And leader are those persons who usually
implement these decisions by the way of proper coordination of resources and people in the
organization. Hence, these both are equally responsible for organizational working and goal
achievement. These both have to be considered very keenly while doing the organizational
operations.
LO1.
P.1 Difference in Role of leader and Function of manager in Asda.
Leadership is action of leading the group of people for the attainment of common goal of
the organization. They inspire manages and motivates the others to attain organizational goals.
The role of leader includes Motivating the staff of the organization, monitoring the working of
workforce, guiding the staff and hence building the morale of the staff. The same is in case of
Asda supermarket (Idris, and Shams, 2018.). The team leader has the responsibility to guide and
motivates the employees and hence building the morale of the sales staff to get the increased
sales.
The various roles of the leader at Asda is as discussed Setting a clear vision and influencing the
staff towards attainment of company's objectives and have the clear understanding of company
objectives so as they work according next role of leader is to Motivating the staff by

understanding and fulfilling the needs and wants of the . Guiding the staff by providing the m
tools and procedures for working also comes under the role of leader. The last important role
leader ha to play in the organization is boosting the morale of the staff. It's the one of the reason
behind the organizational success. These above stated is the major key and responsibilities of
leader at Asda (Santos, Caetano and Tavares, 2015) . Along with it some characteristics leaders
possess are they are people oriented as they work with team of people and for the people. The
leader must have good interpersonal relations with the team members and followers to achieve
organizational objectives.
Manager at Asda supervises the overall functioning of the Asda. The Key function of the
manager at different level at Asda includes planning, organizing (Huang and et.al., 2016).
Organizing, leading and controlling of the functions of the organization. At planning stage the
manager of Asda maps the overall strategy of how to achieve the goals and objectives. The Asda
manager plans parameter to achieve maximum sales. The next function Asda manager has to
perform is organizing he assigns and grants authority to the staff for efficient achievement of
goals (Lam and et.al., 2015). The next is leading it includes the managing and motivating the
staff of the store and last is controlling it includes the monitoring the actual working and
comparing it with the set standards to rectify the deviation if any. Hence, manager is the person
behind the overall attainment of goals and objectives in effective and efficient manner.
The basic characteristics that a good manager has to posses are that he must be courageous,
optimism, confident, creative, ability to inspire positive attitude. A person possessing these of the
qualities would be considered as good manager.
The leader has to be Good communicator, influencer, motivator, responsibility, coordination and
team spirit. These are some qualities a good leader must possess.
P.2. Application of role of leader and functions of managers in different situations in Asda.
The organizational leadership is the actions which are done for the benefit of the group
and for the whole. The leader plays an important role in the success of the organization. The
leader has to follow various roles and responsibilities at various situation in the organization. The
situation may depends on the way leader is managing the particular. The following role has to be
played by leader during various situations:-