Effective Leadership and Management Models in Business: A Sainsbury's

This journal entry provides an analysis of leadership and management principles within a business context, using Sainsbury's as a case study. It discusses the roles of leaders and managers in achieving organizational goals, highlighting key management principles such as planning, organizing, leading, staffing, and controlling. The journal also examines effective leadership skills, including communication, motivation, delegation, positivity, and creativity, and their impact on professional practice. Furthermore, it explores the role of management in business performance and strategic direction, linking organizational theory to practical work experience. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of leadership and management in driving business success and fostering employee development, underscoring the value of organizational theories in maintaining discipline and enhancing the overall work environment. Desklib provides this document as a valuable resource for students studying leadership and management.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Principles of management that consider effective leadership and management models aligned
to business practices....................................................................................................................3
Good practice model and skills that can help out in improvements and can help out in
professional practice....................................................................................................................4
Role of management in performance of business and development of strategic direction.........6
Organisational theory related to chosen work experience and that clearly articulates strategic
aim...............................................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Leadership is a process of social influence that maximises efforts of others. This present
study is based on Sainsbury’s that is the second largest chain of supermarkets in the UK. This
present study is going to discuss roles of management and leadership and their importance within
an organization, Further; it will discuss main 5 principles of management that makes them able
in accomplishing organizational goals. Further, it will discuss all skills that are important for
leading and managing people within organization and ways in which these skills can make able
to employees in performing their professional roles.
MAIN BODY
Principles of management that consider effective leadership and management models aligned to
business practices
Before discussing roles of leadership and management, it is important to discuss their meaning.
Management is a process of dealing with or controlling people and things. It is the administration
of an organisation. In regard to leadership, it can be said that it is an ability of an individual to
lead and influence a group of people. Within an organisation, both leaders and managers are
known as 2 pillars of organisational success and they play a vital role in accomplishing
organisational goals. Some main roles of leaders and managers include:
Representative of organisation: A leader is representative of organisation as he is
responsible to represent concern at seminars and make followers feel valued (Demir and Budur,
2019). He is the representative of their own department and for guiding employees they need to
do so.
Solicits support: A leader is a manager and an individual who entertains as well as invite
support. Leaders possess number of skills and these skills as well as capabilities make him able
to support followers and get positive outcomes. A leaders needs to invite suggestions if required
and make decision.
Managers tell what to do: Along with leaders, managers also perform some functions of
planning, organising, monitoring and controlling. One of the main roles that managers perform
is: delegating tasks to their team. Managers need to make sure that team members understand
their responsibilities. Management is all about providing resources to employees for getting work
done.

Whereas, leaders set expectations and become role model for their followers. Leaders
focus on developing goals as well as expectations within which company and followers can
perform their functions. It brings discipline within business (Adom and et.al., 2018). Overall, it
can be said that leaders and managers perform number of roles and help out company in meeting
their goals.
Principles of management
Planning: It is one of the main functions and principle of management in which
managers need to set goals and actions to pursue. They need to develop strategies by which they
can accomplish goals and deciding what resources they will require to accomplish goals.
Organising: Managers need to organise everything and make sure that everyone are
doing work in an effective manner. Along with this, managers make sure that employees at
workplace are happy and have improved relations with colleagues by which they can work
together and can accomplish goals.
Leading: As per this principle, managers need to articulate a vision and inspiring
employees for performing functions (Church and Alford, 2020).
Staffing: Recruiting and selecting employees for position within the company and make
sure if they can perform their functions or not is other main functions.
Controlling: Monitoring and measuring effectiveness of functions is also important as it
can protect managers from failure as they can take actions as per requirement in a timely manner.
So, on the basis of above discussed principles and roles, it can be said that managers and
leaders can accomplish organisational goals.
Good practice model and skills that can help out in improvements and can help out in
professional practice
Effective leader that have capacity to convey, propel their group, delegate liabilities and
handle. Alongside this have the adaptability to tackle the issue that can truly evolving working
environment. Communication, should have been obviously and clarify concerning how the
representative everything from the association objectives to have the particular errands. In
association pioneers that needed for working with having specialized techniques including full
staff discussion just as conveying through telephone, messages, visit and online media (García-
Rico And et.al., 2021). Pioneers should make themselves routinely accessible to examine
concerns and issues with worker and numerous other relational abilities, for example, lucidity,

undivided attention, clarifying, articulation, and altering, composed correspondence, etc.
Motivation, those necessities to motivate specialist to exceed everyone's expectations and this
could help them for paying fair compensation to labour force. There are immense ways of
rousing the specialist and this could likewise incorporate the confidence through
acknowledgment or by giving worker new obligations to expanded their interest in association.
Pioneers should figure out how to inspirations with best for their representative or colleagues to
energize enthusiasm and usefulness. While different abilities connected with inspiration for
example tutoring, requesting input, giving prizes, persuading, open to representative worries and
so forth. Delegating, pioneers who are attempt too many undertaking themselves with having
battle to finish anything. This could likewise assist the association for working with dread that
assigning undertakings indication of shortcoming, when it really working with indication of solid
pioneers. Organization needs to work with having abilities of each for worker and talking
obligations to every representative on their abilities set (Paige and et.al., 2021). By assigning
errands to staff supervisor this could be accounts significant and a few abilities make a decent
delegator, for example, setting assumption, matching undertakings to right labour force,
designating assets for representative and tolerating input from the workers. This is significant for
the association and furthermore assists them for working with having collaboration, using time
productively and preparing that could keep more viable things.
Positivity, this could make the association for working with during occupied, unpleasant
time and ensure for having more successful things. Alongside this likewise establish the better
and sound work space for their representatives. A few abilities help for making the positive
climate at their working environment which incorporate, mindful, creating affinity, empowering,
helping other and so on. Creativity, assume the successful part through association worker
dazzled and propelled for working. Successful authority styles which assist the association for
working with better assessed and guarantee them for working with framework (Hofmann and
Vermunt, 2021). In addition, this could have the development and advancement for which they
can work and this could lead them for working for certain better exercises.
Association even after have the agent the power the director that will be liable for
supervisor or worker shortcoming. This likewise significant for making command over the
representative work and can't get freed the slip-up to be finished by youngsters and who are to
accomplish the objectives and objective. Effortlessness could help the association in a wide

range of activity which should be running business appropriately. The executives in association
assist them for working with heading and getting their labour force for finishing the work on
given time. Deciding with regards to how should be treated what was happening and the way that
individuals getting to get it done. Course for the worker which appears to be significant and this
could assume the compelling part for accomplishing the objectives and objective (Reynolds and
McKimm, 2021). The board likewise assumes part for work investigation, enrolment and
recruiting individuals with having important expertise for having proper work position. Working
with or giving continuous preparation to keep the abilities current.
Role of management in performance of business and development of strategic direction
While in organization various roles of management in performance that could keep the metric for
determining overall business progress towards the goals. Management teams can work with
assessing individual whole department and employees to make them right with decision about
their organization. Along with this also important for note about this method which is not limited
for analysing the financial aspects for business and also consider the employee and customer
satisfaction (Cartwright, Davies and Archer-Brown, 2021). Role of management can keep the
organization for working with proper direction and manage the work while by keeping the talent
employees.
The board is a course of managing or controlling individuals and things. It is the organization of
an association. With respect to authority, one might say that it is a capacity of a person to lead
and impact a gathering. Inside an association, the two chiefs and administrators are known as
authoritative achievement and they assume an imperative part in achieving hierarchical
objectives. A pioneer is illustrative of association as he is mindful to address worry at courses
and cause adherents to feel esteemed. He is the agent of their own area of expertise and for
directing workers they need to do as such. A pioneer is a supervisor and a person who engages
just as help (Aguinis and Burgi-Tian, 2021). Pioneers have number of abilities and these abilities
just as capacities make him ready to help supporters and get positive results. A pioneers needs to
welcome ideas whenever required and settle on choice. Alongside management, supervisors
likewise fill a few roles of arranging, coordinating, checking and controlling. One of the
principle jobs that chiefs perform is: appointing assignments to their group. Administrators need
to ensure that colleagues comprehend their obligations. The executives are tied in with giving
assets to representatives to finishing work.

Organisational theory related to chosen work experience and that clearly articulates strategic aim
Organizational theory refers to the set of interrelated concepts and explains about behaviour of
individuals or group that subgroups, keep the interactions with each other for performing the
activities towards the accomplishment of common goals. Human relation theory, it uses some
of the beliefs about the classical theory as base but expands them for working incorporate with
other principles. It also involves creative conflict and help for developing some new ideas and
developing the strategies with some working relationship (Hannah, Tidhar and Eisenhardt,
2021). Another principle involves emphasizing the social interaction, decision making and
participative management. Another principles that can lead for learning soft business skills such
as communication, leadership, project management, team management which are important for
business who want to use the employee approaches towards their management strategies for the
organization. Contingency theory, this refers to the decision theory with having conflict as
manageable. The principles in organization act with rationally for adopting the environmental
changes and assessing with management effectiveness by environmental adoption abilities. For
example, in organization technology at all levels which must have the authority for making
decision in their area? Companies and various managers must be adjusting their managerial
styles and techniques for working with based on the condition occurring with them. Modern
system theory, small changes can cause with huge impacts on other large changes in variable
that can cause some normal impacts (Wimelius And et.al., 2021). Moreover, another principle is
that organization can work with open system in dynamic equilibrium as they can easily
constantly adjust and keep adoption about those changes in their environment.

CONCLUSION
From the above study it has been summarized that management and leaders play a vital role
within an organisation and they make employees able in meeting organisational goals. It has
further discussed roles of leaders in improving overall business performance and development of
strategic direction for their followers. It has further shown functions of manager and ways in
which all these functions can motivate employees and give the right direction. Organisational
theories also play a vital role as it also makes able to employees in maintaining discipline and
improving their experience within organisation.

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