Management: Putting Theory into Practice (LDT3103)

The report defines leadership and management theories, discusses challenges related to management and leadership, proposes a suitable organizational structure after the merger with another firm, and identifies the interaction between organizational structure and management roles. The report focuses on Burger King as a case study. Subject: Management, Course Code: LDT3103, College/University: Not mentioned.

INTRODUCTION
The report will define leadership and management theories in order to
discover the qualities of leaders and managers and behavioral patterns
of employees and excellent leaders. The present case study will give
detailed information about fast food company, Burger king.
leadership theories must be adopted within the companies so that
some aspects of leadership and management can be known such as
situation, actions and relationships between bottom and top-level
management. Further, the report will discuss challenges or problems
related to management and leadership and their business solution. At
the end, the case study will propose a suitable organizational structure
after the merger with another firm and that can interact well with
management roles and responsibilities.
Management : Putting Theory Into Practice
Transformational leadership theory
Transformational leadership theory focuses on the relationship between
employees and leaders (Gillam, 2021). This theory discusses the type of
leader in burger king who manages and encourage their employees to
transform and achieve success and complete their task effectively. It is
also known as ''the relationship theory'' because it studies and develop
effective leadership to maintain positive relationship between team
members and leaders. The leaders of Burger king must have ability to
inspire and show them how to perform task (Minbashrazgah, Garbollagh
and Varmaghani, 2021). The theory says that leaders are not only focused
on the performance of employees but also provide individual training to
reach their goals. Transformational theory will help to increase skill,
knowledge and ability to fulfil task.
Identifying the interaction between Organizational structure and
management roles (after merger)
An organizational structure may improve innovative performance of
employees by enabling coordination and collaboration among different
functional units in the big company. It focuses on increasing level of cost-
effectiveness and decreasing errors and mistakes. Researchers of
organizational theories have commented that the structure of company plays
a vital role in innovation and it is an important factor within the company.
Innovation is also a key factor in the development of new entity and
businesses.
All managers of burger king are required to make business related decisions
to achieve organizational objectives. They are responsible for improving
management process within the company. Management roles includes:
•Improve coordination between employees and team-mates and anticipate
problems or opportunities to deal with them. Manager needs to set policies
and regulation to maintain culture and environment within the burger king.
Leadership and management theories
Leadership theories is the study of qualities and potential of good
leaders within the company. In leadership theory the researchers try to
analyze the common qualities and behavior of good leaders (7 major
leadership theories, 2021). The leader must be good in decision-
making process in order to achieve success. In the firm if the managers
want to lead their team members successfully and want to be effective
in their work, it is important for them to adopt certain leadership skills
and knowledge. Some leadership aspects must involve environment of
the business, personality traits, human behavior and decision-making
process. Additionally, if leaders want to become successful, then they
must have knowledge about how to handle their stakeholders and
employees.
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Books and Journals
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Gillam, S., 2021. Leadership and Management for Doctors in Training: A
Practical Guide. CRC Press.
CONCLUSION
To conclude, organization needs to achieve managerial performance and
boost leadership capabilities then they must focus on management theories.
Additionally, operating within a defined structure, with good
communication skills and organizational work flows, helps to ensure
efficient and effective management roles. By examining this report it is
summarized that the Burger king must work on workforce planning and
organizing with the help of Hierarchical organizational structure. So, that it
will improve motivation among employees and increase collaboration.

Leadership and management theories
Transactional leadership theory
This theory revolves around the supervision
role and teamwork as it consider punishments and rewards
as the basis for actions of leadership (Boon, 2021). Burger
king needs to adopt this theory in order to encourage
teamwork and solve problem such as conflict between
teams. A lack of communication and teamwork will
definitely affect the business operations and activities of the
Present firm. The leaders of the present company must use
this theory to resolve the issues. The proponents of this style
use punishments and rewards to encourage team members
and workers. Management theories is the study of collection
of ideas and techniques in order to manage the firm or
business. Management theory represents about the strategies
used by supervisors to achieve organizational goals and to
enhance employees motivation so that they can perform
potentially. Using management theories, managers learn
how to motivate their team members in order to improve
their productivity level and develop performance (Hewitt
and et.al., 2021). From these theories the leaders manages
and learn how to motivate employees. Moreover, the
management theories encourage supervisor to increase
collaboration or coordination between team members. In
order to give employees equal emphasis, the managers of
the Burger king must provide equal levels within the
structure of the company. The structure of company can
mete out the proper balance of influence and authority. The
organized structure will create opportunities for business
and employees growth. Therefore, growth allows and helps
the company to improve capacity and ability to manage
greater level of business activity.
Principles of administrative management theory
Henry fayol developed this theory and commented
that leaders must adopt these principles in order to
plan, control and coordinated with their team
members.
Scalar chain- According to this principle,
there should be a proper systematic chain of leaders
from the top-level of management to lower level of
Burger king management team (Northouse, 2021). The
communication between employees and managers
must be generally flows from top to bottom for
effective results.
Remuneration- If the company provide
fair remuneration for everyone within the company on
the basis of employees skills and knowledge then
employee satisfaction can be achieved (Reynolds and
McKimm, 2021). This process involves non-financial
and financial compensation to motivate them so that it
will improve productivity. For example -The present
company provides various benefits to their staff
members like bonus, incentives and compensation.
Unity of command and direction- In the
company, there should be only one manager per
department who manages and gives direction to their
group and responsible for coordination between group
members to achieve a single goal and target. Unity of
command says that employees and workers of Burger
king must get orders from only one supervisor and be
accountable to that supervisor only.
Hierarchical organizational structure- An
Organization utilizes this structure in order to
manage or organize employees and their
responsibilities. Burger king use a hierarchy to
determine and evaluate the level of control team
members have over their roles as well as their rank
related to each other. This structure typically
featured in a multiple layers of management in the
organization. In the company, the managers must
use this method in order to provide future
promotion opportunities to their employees (7 types
of organizational structures, 2021). Therefore,
from this method issues such as lack of staff
motivation and conflict between teams can be
resolved. Due to the merger with another firm, the
organization is facing some challenges and
problems related to management and leadership
(Behboudian and et.al., 2021). A positive
organisational structure encourage employees and
team-mates to take the initiative in key decisions.
In order to improve communication and teamwork
the management must use this method as it is
suitable structure for the company. It is helpful to
employees knowing other's project, so they can
easily coordinate while performing task. From this
structure, relationship between top management
and managers can be improved and manages
collaboration. Departments like human resources,
accounting, other resources and cultural issues are
managed by separating and classifying each of
these areas and improve them individually.
Moreover, If the company support the function of
other departments and work as team then it will
help them to achieve goals. Burger king has
adopted hierarchical organisational structure to
manage responsibilities of the staff members.