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The Developing Manager: Assignment

   

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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION..............................................................................................................................3TASK 1...............................................................................................................................................31.1 Comparing various management styles...................................................................................31.2 Various leadership characteristics............................................................................................41.3 Communication processes in the selected businesses..............................................................41.4 Organisational culture and change in selected businesses.......................................................5TASK 2...............................................................................................................................................52.1 Assessing own management skills performance......................................................................52.2 Personal Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats......................................................52.3 Set targets and objectives to develop own potential................................................................6LO 3....................................................................................................................................................63.1 Motivate and lead team to achieve objective...........................................................................63.2 Verify managerial decisions to support achievement of objectives........................................74.1 Managerial and Personal skills that support career development............................................84.2 Review personal and career development needs, current performance and future..................8needs to produce development plan..............................................................................................8CONCLUSION:.................................................................................................................................9REFERENCES.................................................................................................................................102

INTRODUCTIONManagement styles, roles and responsibilities are important to formulate differentoperations in the departments of any organisation. A manager should be aware of his leadershipstyles and traits so that he can handle his team effectively and achieve objectives of theorganisation on time (Amanchukwu, et.al., 2015). There should be transparency in the ideas ofemployees and manager so that no miscommunication will occur in any managerial practice. Theircharacteristics are considered mainly in travel and tourism sector because they directly have todeal with customers. Thus, being a manager of Thomas Cook in this project, performance, skills,weaknesses and strengths are discussed.TASK 11.1 Comparing various management stylesThere are various management styles and theories like Theory of Contingency, Chaos andTheory X and Theory Y. In contingency theory, decisions are made on the present situation whilein chaos, changes are made in certain situations. Beliefs of workers influence the management inTheory X and Theory Y.Autocratic: Employees have to follow clear and specific policies and rely on management fortheir jobs. They know what they have to do (Anitha, 2016). Organisation has to follow their rolesstrictly and decision making process is smooth. In tough situations, this style is useful.Consultative: In this style, management seeks feedback from employee’s prior decision makingprocess. This results in the improvement of relationship between employees and management.Persuasive: In this process, employees feel adjusted and management is more concerned inproviding their own decisions. Democratic: This style is useful for long-term decisions and suitable for obtaining employees'buy-in. Many managers apply this style by default.Chaotic: It is used to work in specific situations when a group of team works for a particularproject. But its drawbacks are inefficiency and confusion.Laissez-faire: Here, manager works as a mentor and decisions are made by employees for furtherimprovement.3

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