Leadership and Management Theories and Practices at TESCO

Leadership and
Management, Theory and
Practices

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3
Brief information about the chosen organisation........................................................................3
Review of leadership and management theories and models......................................................3
An application of these theories and models to the leader of your chosen organisation, thus
providing a critical evaluation of the impact of leadership at the organisation..........................5
A review of your own experience of leadership and areas for your own development..............6
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
APPENDIX......................................................................................................................................9
Ensure you attach a Leadership development plan with your submission..................................9

INTRODUCTION
The leadership is basically defined as a ability and capability of individual which is used
for motivating and encouragiung employees within firm. Due to effective motivation lower level
employees are able to put full effort in their job role which leads to enhance the success rate of
company at large scale. But management is refer to controling a set of entities or group for
accomplishing a goal and task in time. The chosen company is TESCO for understaanding the
concept of leadership and management (Bäcklander, 2019). The company was established in
1919 and the head office of this firm is located in United Kingdom. This company is dealing
with wide range of products which includes grocery items, home appliances, furnitures,
telecommunication and others. The report will cover brief introduction about chosen company,
review of leadership and management theories and models. It further covers the review of your
own experience of leadership and areas for your own development.
TASK
Brief information about the chosen organisation
Here the choosen company is TESCO and it is one of the biggest retail based company in
UK. The company is dealing with wide range of products which includes home appliances,
grocery items, books, furnitures, telecommunications and so on. Due to dealing wide range of
products the profit and market share of organization are easily sustained in market for long time.
The company was established by Jack Cohen in 1919. The main objective of this organization is
to facilitate high quality product and services to customers with affordable price in long time.
Due to providing their goods and services to them in low or average price firm easily sustained
strong positive relationship with all customer segment for long time.
Review of leadership and management theories and models
The leadership theory is one type of tool which is used by manager within organization
for sustaining the performance and productivity of employees effectively. This theory is mainly
focusing on the behaviour and traits in which people can adopt for enhancing their leadership
capabilities. The various types of leadership theories which is applied by the manager of TESCO
for controlling the employees and also for ruinning the activities of firm effectively are -
 Participative theory – In this type of theory the manager or leader is maintained open
and friendly relations with their employees. Due to the lower level employees are take