Operations Management Assignment: Food Industry

OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
IN
THE FOOD INDUSTRY

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P.1................................................................................................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................2
P.2................................................................................................................................................2
P.3................................................................................................................................................3
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................5
P.4................................................................................................................................................5
Detail of Each of the key operational function:..........................................................................5
P.5................................................................................................................................................6
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................7
P.6................................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Administration is considered as a way of organising the functioning and operations of a
company. A manager and leader play important role to play in proper functioning and
specifications of business. A company is considered as an entity of people that is properly
managed and structured that it can help to specific organisation to achieve all the targets and
objectives at the faster rate. The report is about understanding the roles and responsibilities of a
leader and manager of Kellogg’s foods limited company that belongs to UK. Also, we will
discuss importance of operations management and its function in the amazon.com inc' company.
TASK 1
P.1. Leader: A individual is the person who clench the capability to lead a specific ground or
team in order to achieve all the goals and targets of the business (Dabbene and Gay,
2011). The leader usually clenches a very dominating role which is important as well for
controlling and managing the employees working there.
 Manager: A manager is a person that is responsible for managing and administrating the
whole organisation or a particular team or group in corporation. Usually, a set of people
or employee have to report to the manager for giving the complete details of the situation
and upcoming anticipation about the business.
1. Leaders create a vision and manager create a goal: The focus of a leader is on vision
or aim of what has to be achieved (Boella and Goss-Turner, 2013). A leader plans the
whole method which can be used for batter and efficient work out that can help the
company in proper planning. The focus of a manger is on goals, it does not matter what
strategies are being used, they only focus on their targets and achieve goals. Leader
possesses extra capability that they can think out of box and managers emphasise on how
they can achieve goals.
2. Leader build leadership and manager build system and process: A leader focuses on
all the employees in the business that is supposed to be influenced in order to realise
their vision (Arvanitoyannis, 2010). They spend most of their times with their employees
and stakeholders. They build loyalty and faith by frequently delivering their promise to
them. Kellogg’s foods limited company’s managers focus on the analytical approach and
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ensure system is working well in terms of execute goals and impersonal of the business.
They don't interact more with their employee in the firm. Kellogg’s foods limited
company's leader are required to make good relationship and interactions with their
employee in order to motivate them and ensure them about the anticipation of future
outcomes on behalf of its decision. Managers in this company build a system and
process and ensure that it is supposed to be followed by their employee in any how
situation. Situational leadership: Situational leadership is a leadership style that is referred when a
leader and manager of a company must set to fit in a particular situation of the company
that will be helpful to create a favourable involvement to the development level of their
employees and he/she is trying to influence them (Davis, Pantelidis and Alcott, 2013).
With situational leadership style, it depends on the leader to change their decision-
making style according to the situation and make a developed level decision to the firm.
Within the situation, Kellogg’s foods limited company work for more profit increasing in
terms that, if its manager and leader make their decision according to the circumstances
in the business.
 Contingency leadership: This latest approach is related to the existing management
approaches (Diabat, Govindan and Panicker, 2012). In contingency approach, it is stated
that manager must make their decision by considering number of factors. Kellogg’s foods
limited company's manager must apply contingency approach according to the changes in
the situation and when this time, they must changes the resources in the company. If they
have any shortage of food products in the company that time delivering them essential
resources, the manager must make their decision to use their available resources at
present time for proving services.
TASK 2
P.2.
In any place, it is common that there were occurred various type of situations, sometime
climate is good and many times its low as well (Duckett and Willcox, 2015). So, both leader and
manager know how to manage and control such situations so that there can be no sort of issue or
conflict in amazon.com inc' business.
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