Leadership and Management Strategies at Ilford on Sea: A Report

This report examines the leadership and management practices within the Ilford on Sea company, focusing on the roles of leaders and managers in driving operational effectiveness. The report delves into various leadership styles, including situational and system leadership, and analyzes the application of management theories within the organization. It explores the functions of managers, such as planning, organizing, leading, and controlling, and how these contribute to achieving company goals. The analysis covers operational management, including Six Sigma, lean theory, and queuing theory, and their impact on productivity and profitability. The report highlights the differences and similarities between leadership and management, the internal factors influencing decision-making, and the importance of adapting to external business conditions. Overall, the report assesses how Ilford on Sea integrates leadership and management to optimize its business operations and achieve its objectives.

MANAGEMENT
AND OPERATION
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
LO1..................................................................................................................................................3
P1:................................................................................................................................................3
Role and Functions of a leader and manager of Ilford on sea:....................................................5
LO2..................................................................................................................................................5
P2.................................................................................................................................................5
Functions of a Manager in ilford sea...........................................................................................6
P3 Theories of leadership applied in the ilford group..................................................................7
LO3..................................................................................................................................................8
P4. ...............................................................................................................................................8
P5. ...............................................................................................................................................9
Profitability...........................................................................................................................11
Productivity..........................................................................................................................11
LO 4...............................................................................................................................................11
P6 .............................................................................................................................................11
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14
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INTRODUCTION
In this project, the operation manager has been defined briefly with the involvement of the
roles and responsibilities of an operation manager. In the operation management is a portion of
region of business that concentrates on the creation of the goods and services, using of resources
effectively and efficiently to meets the customer requirement are including the responsibilities to
ensure that the business operation is using. In the Ilford-on-sea study the shows of roles play by
the leaders and managers. In Ilford-on-sea company diverse types of philosophies are practical to
their business operations have been considered. Moreover, the section comprises several internal
factors of an industry that disturb the functional establishment and decision-taken by the leaders
or manager.
LO1
P1:
The managing director of the Ilford on sea company is determined that the company is in
operation its practicality or business organization operations under the control of several leaders
as well managers. In the organization they both played a vital role in the company, a leader
responsibility is that who courage their workers or inspired to do work and perform willingly to
achieve a good success in the company. Else, manager is considered as to perform his basic
managerial functions. In the company so many differences between leaders and mangers are
there as well as similarities are also there. Below differences between leaders and managers are
such as follows:
Leadership – A leadership style is a leader's style of providing direction, implementing plans,
and motivating people. It is the result of the philosophy, personality, and experience of the leader
(Long, 2017).
Management - Management includes the activities of setting the strategy of an organization and
coordinating the efforts of its employees (or of volunteers) to accomplish its objectives through
the application of available resources, such as financial, natural, technological, and human
resources.
BASIS LEADER MANAGER
Definition The leader is main part for the
company who guide and give
The manager role is that in the
company who control and
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direction to everyone
individually. Fully team is
depends on the leadership.
direct the company. The
manager is give the work to the
employee's.
Focus The leader Focuses on the
goals and objectives of the
business the role of leader.
The leader should always be
focus their team members.
Focus of manager is on to
create coordination between the
single so that the task can be
completed in an efficient way.
Decision making process All the important decision's
should be taken by the leader.
Because leader gives
directions to its
followers.leader has should to
be take part in this.
In the Ilford the manager
should knows the power of his
and with idea of every decision
should be make.
Power In ilford leader has given the
power which is very powerful
in the organisation.
To coordinate and manage
every one in the industry has
given the power to the
managers.
Personality Leaders personality is
attractive in nature. To attain
the goals and objectives
should be sharp in their
thoughts.
To manage the target and
attain the result is
responsibilities of the managers
is showing his personality.
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Risk Leaders are advised to take the
risk taker, always choose the
difficult path.
In this ilford the firm has made
should be follow the rules and
regulations of the organisations.
Role and Functions of a leader and manager of Ilford on sea:
The Ilford on sea company implemented several ideas and explanation In the business function.
To reduce a cost each and every sector of the industry is important role of the leader and
manager of the Ilford company. Approaches of the business operations in the Ilford company is
not following the right direction. They are focusing on the growth in ratio, the leadership and
managers use this idea in order to check the employee's acting their responsibilities in
economical way by cutting the cost, avoiding the surplus material of resources and focused on
the lean production which refers to the surplus dropping as well as cutting the amount of
resources used in the industry.
There are several types of concepts of leadership which are adopted by Ilford on sea and
Jarvis construction are as follows:
 Situational leadership – to overcome a issue and obtaining a desired goal is playing a
vital role in the ilford company of the leadership. According to the situation leaders
observed to perform different types of roles and actions.
 System leadership – the second term of leadership is considered to be system leadership.
This leadership concept refers to a system in which the organisation activates its business
organisation, the leaders within the leader while attention on the business presentation
and exciting the employee also facilitates the conditions in which the employees can
make progress towards the social change.
 Contingency Theory – this term states that the business operations and practicality get
affected by the external and internal factors of the business surroundings or condition.
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LO2
P2
Leaders and managers plays a vital role in the company manager and leadership to earn a profit
and succeed in their organization. They both have to take the same decisions to organize a good
in their organization their decision should be in a favor of both to obtain a goal effectively. In the
ilford company the manager has play a role like managerial roles by adopting several theories
according to the situations. While In other hand, the leadership has to play a role like as
encourage the workers in the company and inspired them of the plans to achieve the company
goals and objectives. They have different mind but in the company their ideas should be same
because its necessary and improving and build a new venture. The several conditions in
environment to the ilford group which the leaders and managers perform their individual duties
like:
1- The entire organisation depends on creation of the products. Leaders is ensuring the processes
which is achieved well individually every workers. The managers secure that the employees
knows the direction and the method to execute the operations within the administration.
2- whenever the situation is critical the managers deal with the problems and situations. These
scheme and strategies are provided to the workers or their employees which help the Ilford on
Sea to share the message or plan of action between the employee's in an operative way.
3- in every situation the both leader and manager works respectively to achieve a goals and
conjunctives for the company.
Roles of a leader in ilford sea
 To watch the business performance leaders should be play a important role in this.
Leaders set the target for the employees and give their work according to the outcome
and skills.
 In the ilford entrepreneur order to bring the innovation with in the organization. In this
organization is increased their profits power.
 In this one performance also there is role of an allocator.
Functions of a Manager in ilford sea
 Planning- In every company the main term is planning is very helpful to achieve a goals
and objectives.
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 Organising- In organisation the staff and their functions are to be organised very
respectfully.
 Leading- To find the organisation goal, managers lead the several sections for the
effectual use of the capitals inside the company.
 Controlling- In the organisation the main role of a manager considered to be governor of
the management of the pertains. In the Ilford on Sea provided different types of
guidelines and policies to the employee to help them in the innovate in the company.
P3 Theories of leadership applied in the ilford group
Therefore, the different conditions in the ilford group the several styles and concepts are
followed by leadership are as follows:
1. Situational leadership- In the business when the problem has come is to be handle by
the leader to adopt a leadership in the business environment. According their skills and
performance of the workers the leader distribute their responsibilities and duties
according to their performance in the industry. Over all this situation always helps in to
face the problem and issues in an effective manner.
2. Systematic leadership- In an organisation the leaders should focus on development of
the business operations. To manage business operations for effectiveness and
improvement managers is taking the responsibilities for the ilford group (Gopee and
Galloway,2017).
3. Contingency- in the organisation, the leaders helps in the company to increase the
productivity and profitability of an industry. This concept is considering three factors
such as relation with the users, task structure, and position.
The Ilford on Sea have several formulations in the business processes in state to
modification the powerfulness and ratio of the company. These tactics having several strengths
and weakness such as:
Strengths
 In the organisation should be improved the relationship to the employee.
 To share the views and idea with the team members is also helpful in nature.
 To communicate with the workers is also improving strength power and different
departments within an industry.
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 In these leaders and mangers encourage and inspired their team members in the
organisation in the company.
Weaknesses
 In the ilford company no secrecy is maintained.
 May leads to group action within the organisation.
LO3
P4.
Operations management is an area of management concerned with designing and
controlling the process of production and redesigning business operations in the production of
goods or services (Nienaber and Svensson,2017).
In the Ilford group assemble the administration has dispersed the parts and obligations
among various groups and representatives concerning their abilities. This causes the activity's
administration to expand the proficiency in the tasks inside the organization. The workers in the
Ilford group assemble plays out the accompanying parts and obligations to meet viable
outcomes-
 Six sigma – The Ilford group utilize this arrangement of administration procedures to
examine the execution of the association. This aides in enhancing the corporate procedure
and expanding the productivity
 Thin hypothesis – This hypothesis or approach is utilized by an association to wipe out
waste from generation process.
 Queuing hypothesis – This is a numerical report which decides the lines and holding up
lines. The Ilford on Sea aggregate build up their activities based on lining and
emergencies (Farndale, 2014).
Leaders Role
• Motivating or moving workers
• Give clear vision and mission
Directors Role
• Planning
• Organizing
• Controlling
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Operational functions: There are various functions of operations management that can change the
overall performance of an enterprise. The major operational functions are:
 Control and Distribution Systems - A distributed control system (DCS) is a
specially designed automated control system that consists of geographically
distributed control elements over the plant or control area.
 Transformation of raw material into finished goods/services - A transformation
process is any activity or group of activities that takes one or more inputs,
transforms and adds value to them, and provides outputs for customers or clients.
 Process design - Business process design is the instrument of creating a new
process or workflow from scratch. It's various from business procedure redesign,
which as the name implies, means taking an already existing operations and rising
it. A business process, on the other hand, is a building block of any kind of
business.
P5.
The Operations Management assumes a vital part in an association to accomplish the
hierarchical targets. The Ilford group assemble has a viable administration framework which
deals with the tasks of the business adequately. The activity administration centers around the
arranging, sorting out, staffing and controlling in the association which constructs powerful
coordination inside the firm. There are different parts and duties a task's director performs inside
the Ilford group. The distinctive parts and obligations completed by the Operation chief are as
per the following -
1. Control and conveyance – The Operation Manager appropriate the tasks or elements of
the association among the representatives and different offices inside the association as to
the aptitudes and capacities of the workers. These aides in legitimate circulation of
undertaking and expanding the viability in the hierarchical activities.
2. Conversion of the resources – The Operation's administration centers around the
transformation of the crude resources or assets in the completed merchandise or items.
The task's administration guarantee that the activities in the generation are powerful and
effective.
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3. Process Design – This alludes to the advancement of the procedure which will be utilized
by the different branches of the association to deliver the items and other usefulness of
the firm. Capacity Management – administration alludes to the successful utilization of
the assets and innovation inside the different tasks of the association.
Are different angles over which the supervisors enhance the effectiveness of activity
administration with a specific end goal to accomplish the business goal or objectives. The
diverse manners by which the leader and directors enhances the effectiveness in the activities of
an association are as per the following -
Having clear objectives – The supervisors and leaders in the Ilford group aggregate supports the
workers and groups to rich their vision and mission. They guarantee that employees
representative inside the association comprehend the objectives and goals of the association so
everybody can work viably in accomplishing it (Dextras-Gauthier, Marchan and Haines III,
2012).
Aptitudes and capacities - The leaders and directors though creating groups or doling out the
project and parts to alternate individuals ensure that an undertaking will be achieved well
individual, this is finished by offer the correct project to the reasonable individual.
Don't be hesitant to designate – The leaders and chiefs move and propel the representatives and
groups by assigning diverse parts and obligations to the workers. They spur the representatives to
play out the parts and obligations by offer them duties to be satisfied. This causes the workers to
feel roused and increment their capacities and aptitudes.
There are numerous variables both inside also outside which affect the activity's of the
ilford group gathering. The activity's administration gets influenced by these variables in both
positive and negative ways (Chiaburu, Diaz and Pitts, 2011). The administration needs to center
around these components keeping in mind the end goal to conquer the negative effects they have
on the association. The different elements influencing the task's administration are as per the
following -
1. Value System – The esteem framework is totally in light of the way of life and standards
of an organization. The polices and administrative structure of each association majorly
affects the usefulness of the association.
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2. Mission and goals – The targets of the Ilford group may change as per the changing
business condition and rivalry in the market which greatly affects the associations
activities.
3. Financial factors – These variables likewise influence the business tasks as every single
activity or business exercises requires back and accessibility of fund can influence the
elements of an association.
Main objectives of Ilford group
Profitability
Maintaining profitability means making sure that revenue stays ahead of the costs of doing
business, according to James Stephenson, writing for the "Entrepreneur" website. Focus on
controlling costs in both production and operations while maintaining the profit margin on
products sold.
Productivity
Employee training, equipment maintenance and new equipment purchases all go into company
productivity. Company's objective should be to provide all the resources Company's employees
need to remain as productive as possible
Importance and value of operations management in achieving business
objectives
The customer service is the main objective any company because at the end of the day
irrespective of all the strategy, marketing and operations management if the customer is not
happy with the product or the service then the purpose of the entire enterprise is fallen.
LO 4
P6
Business condition is comprised with the blend of inside and outer parts that influence the
every business exercises and capacities (Bonanni and Cafazzo, 2014). Keeping in mind the end
goal to make due in the aggressive business condition, organization need to dissect and evaluate
the state of the business condition. In this way, partner is significant segment which impact every
choice of business with the goal that director of association need to consider on the these partner
at the season of taking the choice about the business. ilford group is one of the main retail in the
UK which have different rivals in the market. Keeping in mind the end goal to get viable
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achievement and development, organization need to fulfill the partner by full fill their necessities
and keep up solid association with them.
Various factors affecting organisation and its leadership styles
1. Customers - In the business condition, client are significant partner whose to a great
extent enthusiasm for the organization exercises. Client real wants high caliber of item
and administrations in the sensible costs. While organization takes any choice identified
with costs, taste, highlights of the item and administrations then they need to center
around the necessities and needs of the clients. It is critical for the association to keep up
the sound association with clients by offering them compelling item and administrations
in a sensible and reasonable costs. Besides, organization need to keep refresh client by
convey the precise data about the item and administrations like costs, highlights, and so
on.
2. Human resources - Human asset is most critical partner for the association who is
dependably enthusiasm for getting the high and reasonable pay, remuneration, benefits,
motivator, noteworthy working condition, working arrangements, hones and so forth. In
the event that trough changes any guidelines, direction, standards, approaches about the
business then they have educated, the representatives (Baur and Haase, 2015).
Notwithstanding this administration additionally need to consider on the necessity of the
representatives identified with working condition. Workers are additionally enthusiasm to
know the organization effectiveness and monetary condition that is the reason trough
ought to dependably welcome the representatives in the business basic leadership process
so as they can persuade for higher execution and profitability.
3. Suppliers - Suppliers are those entities who conveys the crude product and incompleted
products to the organization. Ilford on Sea is one of the retailer in the UK which conveys
the high and extravagance item and administrations. Hence, organization whole
generation and assembling is generally relies on the providers. They want the reasonable
and consistent installment of the request of crude material and semi completed great.
Organization need to consider them at the season of taking the choice identified with
generation and assembling related exercises. In the event that organization change any
practices of generation then it specifically influences the providers.
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