Management & Operations: Toyota
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................31: Introduction on organisation and its management structure..............................................32: Definition the roles of managers and leaders as well as the differences betweenmanagement and leadership...................................................................................................43: Analysis of the different roles of management and leadership in application to differentorganisational situations, supported by theories and concepts...............................................54: Evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to leadership andmanagement to draw conclusions that support theories of leadership...................................65: Conclusions on how managers and leaders have made an impact on the organisation andrecommendations for future improvements............................................................................7TASK 2............................................................................................................................................8PPT.........................................................................................................................................8CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................15REFERENCE.................................................................................................................................16
INTRODUCTIONManagement and operations are basic business activities and functions that are requiredto organise and control key operations of organisation to achieve desired goals and objectives.These functions and operations includes formulation of systematic plan, make coordinationbetween different functions and establish control over utilisation of resources. This reportexhibits an analysis about organisation and management structure, roles of both managers andleaders, while highlighting the differences between management, leadership, and chaos theory inthe context of Toyota. Which is Japan based global automotive manufacturer and sixth largestcompany in world. This report also describes strength and weakness of different approaches toleadership and management and discuss about how operational efficiencies can be improved tosuccessfully meet business objectives using appropriate management and leadership approaches.Task 11: Introduction on organisation and its management structureToyota engaged in manufacturing vehicles and sixth largest auto-mobiles company in theworld by turnover. Company has its headquarter in Aichi, Japan and having approx 36500employees across the glob. Toyota is also engaged in manufacture of hybrid electric vehicle.Presently Toyota has divisional organizational structure however before 2013 company hadfollowed centralised organisational structure. Earlier company under centralised structurecompany's key decisions are taken through its headquarter in Japan and various units of companywere not allowed to communicate with each other. All type of communications were routedthrough headquarters. Due to slow response for problems related with safety concerns thisstructure is criticised and converted to divisional organisational structure, following are themajor division under divisional structure: First is Global hierarchy, second is Geographicdivisions and third one is Product-based divisions. Now this organizational structure gives amore flexibility and less rigid as compared to centralized hierarchical organizational structure.This structure provide a framework to deal with different local market issues and conditions.Flexibility under this structures provides Toyota to quickly resolve issues and to give highquality products. Although due to increase in powers of local units heads leads to reduced controlof headquarters globally. But this organizational structure ensures a sustainable growth of entity.
2: Definition the roles of managers and leaders as well as the differences between managementand leadershipManagers: Managers are individuals in organisation, responsible for controlling oradministering other personnels in an organisation. Managers helps to define different-differentroles and responsibilities of staff and employee as per their capacity while consideringorganisation's goals and objectives.Characteristics of manager:Manger are key aspect for organisation in order toaccomplish their short term or long term goals. Managers in an organisation have capability tolead and encourage employees to do task within the scheduled time. They critically analyse theperformance and abilities of employees to allocate task among them as per their abilities andutilise their skill for achievement of organisational goals. Role of manager: The key role of managers in Totota is create a structure for quickplanning, management of various functions, coordination and control various functions oforganisation to attain short term goals.Leader: Leader holds vital position in organisation in organisation because theypromotes and encourage other to achieve organisation;s targets. In Toyota leaders not onlyencourages staff but also provide a guidance to attain different targets. Characteristic of leader: Leaders though their motivation skills and leadership skillspromotes team members and other staff to attain goals. They also provide a groundwork for shotout any difficulties in accomplishment of tasks.Role of leader: In Toyota leader's play a major role in enhancement of capabilities andutilisation of human resources while considering various needs of employees. Main role of leaderis to provide a proper guidance, encourage others and to shoot out any trouble. However overallrole of leaders is to effective accomplishment of goals. Basis of differenceManagementLeadershipMeaningManagement of Toyotaachieve objectives oforganisation though planning ,managing and controllingvarious operations oforganisation.Leadership refers to ability toencourage and influenceinterest employees withinorganisation to achieveorganisational goals.
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