Role of Leader and Manager in Toyota

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 ................................................................5
LO2...........................................................................................................6
P2 Role of leader and function of manager ................................................................................6
P3 Theories and models of leadership approach .........................................................................8
LO3 .........................................................................................................9
P4 Key approaches to the operations management and role and which leaders and managers
play...............................................................................................................................................9
P5 Importance and the value of operations management in achieving the business objectives 11
CONCLUSION ....................................................................................12
REFERENCES .....................................................................................14

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