Role of Leaders and Managers in Operations Management

Management and
Operations

TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
LO1..................................................................................................................................................3
P1. Explaining & comparing different features and role of the leader and manager with respect
to company...................................................................................................................................3
M1. Assessing and differentiating between leader’s role and manager’s function through
effectively applying range of the concepts & theories................................................................4
LO2..................................................................................................................................................5
P2 Role of leader and function of manager.................................................................................5
P3 Theories and models of leadership approach.........................................................................7
LO3..................................................................................................................................................8
P4 Key approaches to the operations management and role and which leaders and managers
play..............................................................................................................................................8
P5 Importance and the value of operations management in achieving the business objectives 10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Management of operations refers to an administration of the business practices for
creating higher level of the efficiency as possible within the firm. The present report is based
Toyota, a largest automobile company which manufactures best cars for people. Furthermore, the
study highlights different roles played by managers and leaders in company. Moreover, report
also shows the important of proper operation management for attaining objectives of business.
LO1.
P1. Explaining & comparing different features and role of the leader and manager with respect to
company
Manager – They are considered as an individual in an enterprise who manages and design
work of the company in direction of pre-determined goals & purpose of firm. For successful
execution of objectives, task of managers is for developing and establishing the appropriate
strategies, plan and policies for performance of the staff & employees with an aim that they
would perform their assigned task as per the objectives (Salmela, Koskinen and Eriksson, 2017).
Managers are been distributed at several levels in an entity for the purpose of managing the tasks
in different departments. Managers are also been concerned with appraising performance of
employees and they perform such task by way of implementing process of performance appraisal
at regular interval of time.
Leaders- They is one who gets the task performed from staff concerning the objective of
company. They plays vital role in appreciating and motivating employees through their
communication and leadership skills that is inherent to vision of an organization. They make the
employees work in the manner for achieving the goals (Webb, 2020). The man aim of the leaders
is to induce & inspire employees for the purpose of their performance that results to an increase
in the efficiency & productivity of the firm.
Difference between leaders & managers

Often role of the managers & leaders are counted as interchangeable, but their present a
difference between functions that are performed by managers as well as leaders for getting the
employees work for an entity (O’Leary, 2016).
Managers in an enterprise performs task of the setting an objectives according to vision &
mission of the firm and also task leaders is further communicates vision to an employee’s & also
inspire them in the manner that vision of company become as their vision and they follows steps
facilitated by leaders.
 Leaders They persuade an objectives developed by managers, on other side managers
they set an objective of an organization.
 Leaders influence and communicate an employee for working as per the plans, However,
mangers communicate policies to leaders.
 Leaders provide the direction within the team, on other state, managers facilitate the
direction to groups.
 Leaders create an idea for betterment of the company, whereas managers plays role of
executing those kind of ideas into the reality.
 Leaders mainly focus on the people, whereas managers emphasize on the things.
 Leader’s role is inspiring employees for working, whereas While main role of the
managers is the planning in an enterprise.
 Leaders motivate employees for working, while managers direct work to the staff so that
they could perform as per the set standards.
In Toyota, company that deals in automobile sector and is been engaged within the
business activities consisting of manufacture, designing, assembly and sale of passenger car in
countries such as Europe, North America, Asia and Europe (Răducan, 2016). Management of an
entity is said to be efficient when strategies developed by the fire results to increase in
productivity. The manager’s role is been differentiated in effective way with that of the leaders
role in an enterprise. Manager of the Toyota company establishes performance standards for
employee‘s task & leaders in the firm with that of their effective interpersonal communication
talent for getting the work done from employees by considering standards developed by
managers. Such differentiated role of the leaders & managers in company, leads to growth in
business as tasks are been segregated & performed in better manner.