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Operational Management and Operations Introduction

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MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS INTRODUCTION 3 TASK 13 P1 Different roles & characteristics of leaders and managers 3 P2 Role of a leader & functions of a manager used in different situational context with an example5 P3 Different theories and models of approach, including |Leadership |Schematic leadership, system leadership & contingency 6 TASK 28 P4 Key approaches to operations management and role that leaders & managers play 8 P5 Importance & value of operation management in achieving business objective |9 P6

Operational Management and Operations Introduction

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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3P1 Different roles & characteristics of leaders and managers....................................................3P2 Role of a leader & functions of a manager used in different situational context with anexample.......................................................................................................................................5P3 Different theories and models of approach, including situational leadership, systemleadership & contingency............................................................................................................6TASK 2............................................................................................................................................8P4 Key approaches to operations management and role that leaders & managers play.............8P5 Importance & value of operation management in achieving business objective...................9P6 Factors of business environment that affects operation management & decision making byleaders & managers...................................................................................................................10CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13
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INTRODUCTIONOperational management is a process performed by administration department to design& control the production process and to enhance productivity, profitability and to achieveobjective of the firm. This report defines Leaders & Managers and compare roles andcharacteristics of leaders & managers of Arcadia Group. Arcadia Group is multinational clothingbrand which includes variety of products such as cloths(Denims, shorts, tops etc.), accessoriesand shoes in its portfolio. Further, this report explains role of a leader & functions of managersin different situational context with the help of an example. Furthermore, this report includesdifferent theories & models of approach which includes situational leadership, system leadership& contingency. Moreover, this report includes various approaches of operation managementsuch as Lean approach, Six sigma and Total quality management. Further, this report highlightimportance & values of operation management in achieving business objective. At last this reporthighlights all the factors that affects operational management and decision making by leadersand managers.TASK 1P1 Different roles & characteristics of leaders and managersA Leader is a person who influence its subordinates to work and enhance their confidenceby motivating them so that they can achieve organisational objective. Main focus of a leader inan organisation is to achieve organisational objectives (Antonakis and Day, 2017).Manager is a person whose main focus is on task and manager always focuses onenhancing productivity by effective utilization of resources. Leader of Arcadia Group focuses onachieving its objective whereas managers focuses in improving productivity and output.Comparison of Roles & Characteristics of Leader & Manager-Leader ManagerRole of Leader & ManagerRole of leader ofArcadia Group is to seta vision and objectivefor overall organisationand to ensure that allobjectivesareachieved.Manager of ArcadiaGroup perform a roleof setting goal &achieving goals andensures efficiency ofwork by reducing thecost.
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Leader also analyses allthe external factorsaffecting the businessof Arcadia Group.Role of manager is toanalyze all the internalfactors which affectsproductivity &performance ofemployees of ArcadiaGroup.Functions of Leader &ManagerCo-ordination-ALeader coordinate withemployees of ArcadiaGroup and considerinterest of eachindividual and processthat with the objectiveof the organisation.Direction&Motivation-Leadermotivate & directemployees of ArcadiaGroup. Thus they canachieve objective oforganisation.Organizing, settinggoals and teamwork arefunctions that are alsoperformed by Leadersof Arcadia Group(Graham and Potter,2015)Planning- Managers ofArcadia Group make astructured plan as tomaximize productivity& profits.Directing- Managerform guidelines andgive day- daydirections to employeesof Arcadia Group toimprove efficiency oftask.Beside, this functionsmanager also performfunctions such asOrganizing, Staffing &Controlling.Characteristics of Leader &ManagersProactive- Leader ofArcadia Group givesReactive- Manager arereactive because they
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