Leadership and Management Report on Aston Martin Operations

This report examines the concepts of leadership and management, using Aston Martin as a case study. It begins by defining leadership and management and then contrasts the roles and characteristics of leaders and managers, highlighting skills such as communication, public speaking, and strategic thinking. The report differentiates between the roles of a leader and a manager, applying various theories and concepts to analyze their functions within an organization. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of both leadership and management in achieving organizational goals, with references to environmental policies formulation and team working within the organization. The report also mentions the use of theories to establish a working culture within the organization, and the need to consider the effectiveness of the employees.

Management & Operations

Introduction
Management is the process of planning, organizing, staffing, directing
and controlling the operation with in the organization so that resources
of the company is rightly used in an effective and efficient manner.
Operations are the functioning and managing the inner working so that
all the business can be run with the right approach and it will leads to
attain the organisational goal. Aston Martin is the chosen organisation
for this report, It is the British independent company which
manufactures the luxury sports cars and grand tourers.

Define and compare the different roles and
characteristics of a leader and the manager.
Leader is the one who rallies the people to move in the one direction
for attaining the common objectives. Manager must give some of its
works for making the vision and mission of the company so that each
task can be done with the consideration of achieving the business goal
based on vision statement.
Manager is the one who convince the other people for attaining the
common goal and also give them the training with the consideration
putting their effectiveness in their business operations.

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Role of a leader
Communicator: It is the medium of passing the information from one
person to another so that everyone can be aware about their duties
and responsibilities.
Teacher: Leader can be a good instructor that can train their employees
so that they can work with their full potential in attaining the
business goal.

CONT..
Role of Manager:
Focuses on development: Manager is the one who identifies the areas
of development and find the suitable technique so in order to meet the
competitive advantages in an organisation.
Encourage strategic thinking:Manager invite the the strategic thinking
of the employees and also favour the innovative ideas in their business
so that they can achieve the business goal in an effective manner.

Characteristics of Manager and the
leader
Basis Manager Leader
Skills Effective social skills:
These are the skills
which include the
presentation skills,
communication skills and
many more. A manager
must have the prominent
personality so that they
can influence their
employees in achieving
the business goal.
Outstanding public
speaking:
It is the basic skills that
must be inbuilt in the
effective leadership. It is
the main concern of any
business to have the
good leader who can
influence other in order
to complete the task in
an appropriate manner.

Analyse and differentiate between the role
of a leader and function of a manager by
applying various theories and concepts
A leader is one who influence the other to follows their actions so that
common goal of the business can be achieved in an appropriate manner
and manager is the one who convince the workforce in order to work
effectively for attaining the goal of the organisation. They use various
theories so that all the function can be run in an systematic manner and
establish a working culture within the organisation.

Conclusion
The above report concludes various roles & responsibilities of leader
as well as manager to complete work tasks within specific time
period. Above organisation has also developed a team in reference
to environmental policies formulation. Report broadly discusses
about team working responsible for development of appropriate
policies and their execution in a proper manner.

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