Operations Management of Toyota

Operations
Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Differences and similarities between a leader and manager..................................................1
P2 Different functions of manager in TOYOTA Group.............................................................2
P3 Systems leadership and contingency leadership and situational leadership.........................4
LO3..................................................................................................................................................6
P4 key approaches in operational management..........................................................................6
P5 Importance and value of operations management.................................................................7
LO4..................................................................................................................................................9
P.6 Factors within the Toyota affecting the Operational management and the decision making
by managers and leaders.............................................................................................................9
CONCLUSIONS............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Operations management is an area of management concerned with designing and controlling the
production and redesigning business operations in the production of goods or services. This
report will be based on the role of managers and leaders of an organization, which helps the
company in improving production. The report inculcated study on TOYOTA group, which is
basically located in United Kingdom and provide different kind of services in automobile sector.
Further, it will cover functions of managers and role of leaders in those functions in order to get
the work done from employees in efficient manner.
TASK 1
P1 Differences and similarities between a leader and manager
Manager: Manager is the one who designs and manages the internal work inside
organisation. It will provide the direction to pre-determined goals and objectives of an
organisation. On the other hand, for successfully accomplishment of an objective, task of the
manager is developed and established of relevant strategies (Lim, 2015). The manager are
distributed various level in organisation in order to manage the task in different way. In this way,
manager is also concerned with the appraisal of performance review.
Some changes are made as per the needs of current market network as well future improvement
in market share. The manager plays an important role for development such as executing vision,
managing processes, direct interaction with people; establishing rules and regulations for growth
and development.
Leader: Leader is people who get the work done form the employees concerning the goal
of the company. The leader plays the most important role in motivating workers inside
organisation (Bernardelli and et.al., 2017). They make in effective manner to achieve
organisational objective. Leader is person, who the manager works of every worker in a team.
The major aim is to influence and inspire employees for effective performance. It will help to
increase efficiency and productivity in an organisation.
Differences between Leader and Manager
Manager Leader
Manager is set the overall objectives of an
organisation.
Leader is work on such objective development
by manager.
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Manager communicates the policy of leader. Leader is communication manager related to
efficiency and effectiveness of working
conditions.
Manager gives direction to every single group
member.
In this context, leader provides direction to
team members.
Manager inside the organisation focuses on
thing power and find out the new way to solve
problem.
Leader should focus on each person in a
particular team.
Manager directs the work to employees. Leader motivates employees to the work.
Leader provides the motivation, which is help
to improve current employees' performance
inside work place.
The manager should organizer new ideas for
growth and development (Abbou and et.al.,
2015).
The leader should invent new technology to
increase their profitability and productivity.
The manager is important person to planning,
controlling the business activities.
The leader has a quality to communicate,
encourages other employees and increases their
productivity.
A leader is very important of organization to planning a new strategy and developed a
strong business. Manger is handling the whole business process in effectively and efficiently.
They have managed the complexity of business, budgeting and performance of employee,
problem solving etc (Bhattacharjee and Bandyopadhyay, 2015). They have some specific goals
to plans according to customer requirement. It will create an effective structure to perform
different role in business process.
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