Analyzing Leadership and Management Approaches at ASDA for Efficiency

This report provides an analysis of leadership and operations management within ASDA, a large retail sector business. It evaluates how internal and external operational management environments fostered the leader's style, focusing on improvements in operational efficiencies to meet business objectives. The report discusses key operations transformed under the leader, emphasizing the importance of communication, supply chain management, resource utilization, and shareholder involvement. Transformational leadership is highlighted as a key approach for modernizing business objectives and meeting customer demands. The conclusion reiterates the significance of effective managers and leaders, referencing various managerial functions and leadership styles applied at ASDA. Recommendations include leveraging social media for advertisement, conducting periodical training programs, and maintaining corporate social responsibility to enhance the company's image. The report references various academic sources to support its analysis and recommendations.

Management and operations

Contents:
• An introduction to the key operations of the organization they
transformed.
• An evaluation how the internal and external operation management
environments created an atmosphere that allowed for that particular
individual and his respective leadership style to flourish.
• How operational efficiencies improved to successfully meet business
objectives, using appropriate management and leadership approaches.
• Conclusions and supported recommendations for future improvements
to be taken by the leader and the respective organization.
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An introduction to the key operations of the
organization they transformed
• The main task that is
performed by the managers
of the organization is to direct
the entire organizational
activities in proper track
• On the other hand, the
leaders are the true directors
of the organization who
comes out with innovative
idea

Contd..
• In this particular scenario, the
ASDA Company has been chosen
to elaborate this discussion and
to find out the effectiveness of
the leadership skills
• Being one of the large retail
sector business organizations,
this company required to
develop several innovative
planning and marketing activities
for them

An evaluation how the internal and external operation management
environments created an atmosphere that allowed for that particular
individual and his respective leadership style to flourish
• The internal and the external
contexts of the ASDA Company
has managed to provide a suitable
working environment to the
workers and to increase the
productivity issues
• The external support from the
shareholders and the inventors of
the organization has managed to
give the company proper direction
of the overall busyness objectives.

Contd…
• The newly appointed manager of the ASDA
company has come out with effective
suggestion for improving the production
efficiency
• The involvement of technologies and the
involvement of the social media platforms to
attract more customers for the company.

How operational efficiencies improved to successfully meet business
objectives, using appropriate management and leadership approaches
• the entire business organizations
should provide service or
develop products according to
their potential in the market
(Epstein and Buhovac, 2014).
• It can be also justified that while
the organization chose to serve
according to the potential they
manage to fulfill the desired
target of the market

Contd..
The strength of the organization is included with
following key factors:
• Proper communication channel
• Proper supply chain management process
• Proper utilization of resources
• Effective involvement of the shareholders

Contd..
• This is one of the important tasks
that need to be fulfilled by the
operational managers so that the
overall monitoring process gets
easier for the organization
• For business expansion, the ASDA
Company has followed several
tactics that has given them
opportunity to attract customer
and the shareholders for them.

Contd…
• Transformational leadership
approach:
• It is directly involved with the
key aspect of the converting the
overall business objectives in
modernized ways
• It increases the scopes in the
market as it is aligned with
meting the customers demand.

Conclusison..
• Managers and leaders in a company perform major
roles and responsibilities. An organization’s efficiency
depends on the efficiency of managers and leaders
• Various managerial functions and leadership styles have
been discussed here and it has been shown how the
leaders and managers have followed and applied
various styles and theories for the productivity of ASDA
• Finally, the factors that affect the operation
management have been mentioned.

Recommendation:
• Nowadays, most of the people remain busy in the
social media and hence, the pioneers of ASDA should
utilize the social media platforms for the
advertisement of the company
• Periodical training programs should be conducted in
the company to train the managers, leaders and
other employees of the company
• The pioneers of ASDA should maintain some
corporate social responsibilities to gain a strong
image of the company.