Different characteristics and roles of the leader and the manager

MANAGEMENT & OPERATIONS

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LO1..................................................................................................................................................1
P1 Different characteristics and roles of the leader and the manager..........................................1
P2 Role of leader and function of manager in different situational.............................................3
P3 Theories and models of approach of Situational Leadership, System Leadership and
Contingency Approach-...............................................................................................................5
LO3 .................................................................................................................................................6
P4 approaches to Operation Management and role of a leader and manager-.............................6
P5 Importance and Value of operation management-..................................................................9
LO4................................................................................................................................................10
P6 Factors that impact operational management and Decision making-...................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Operations management is area of the management concerned that controlling and
designing the procedure of redesigning and production of business operation on production of
services and goods. In this report ASDA company is taken. ASDA is the British retail
supermarket and headquarter is located in Leeds (White, 2016). This report highlights the
Difference between the leader and the manager and the role & function of the manager. Also, it
highlights the different models and theories of approach which include the situational leadership,
contingency and system leadership and key approaches of the operational manager and role that
manager and leader play. The essential & value of the operation of the management for
achieving the objective of the business. Also, the factors in the business environment which
impact upon the decision-making and operation management. In this regard the present report
has been prepared.
LO1
P1 Different characteristics and roles of the leader and the manager.
Leadership has the art of the leader that motivate the group people to act towards the
achiving the common goal. Whereas the manager is responsible for to manage and control the
departments in the ASDA organization
Leader Manager
Leader creates the vision of the company by
seeing the possible things and inspire & engage
the employees to turn towards the vision to
reality(Battaïa and et.al., 2018).
Whereas the manager mainly focus on the
measuring setting and try to achieve the goal of
the ASDA company goal and try to control the
situation that exceed and reach the objective.
Leader is change agent, as the leader are a
proud disputer. Leader make change & know
the all things are working well or not and can
be better for the further or not and also
understand the changes and accept To make
some changes in it.
Manager are mostly stick with the things what
the authorize people are hiring, They just
follow the structures and the procedure and
make sure that it is working properly or not.
Leaders are always unique in nature , as they
always willing be themselves(Meindl, 2016).
Manager are copy, as the manager mimic
behaviors and competencies which they learn

As leader work actively and are self-aware and
build different and personal brand. And are
transparent and authentic.
from the others & also adopt the leadership
style.