Leadership Report: Managerial and Leadership Roles in Volkswagen

This report delves into the distinct roles of managers and leaders within a business context, emphasizing their responsibilities and the impact of their actions on organizational success. The report examines the leadership of the German Labor Front, founder of Volkswagen, analyzing his biography, career highlights, and the key operational transformations he implemented. It explores how internal and external environmental factors influenced his leadership approach and how operational efficiencies improved to meet business objectives. The report also discusses the leader's role in motivating employees and fostering a culture of trust and performance. Finally, it provides recommendations for future improvements, considering various factors affecting the business environment and concluding with the importance of both managers and leaders for any successful organization. Desklib provides past papers and solved assignments for students.

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Table of Contents
Introduction:.....................................................................................................................................1
TASK 2:...........................................................................................................................................1
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(A)...........................................................................................................................................2
(B)...........................................................................................................................................2
(c):...........................................................................................................................................3
(D):.........................................................................................................................................4
(E):..........................................................................................................................................5
Refernces:...............................................................................................................................6

Introduction:
Leadership in the business is a capacity of the organisation to set and achieve the challenges
gaols in the most effective and productivity manners . it has includes making the sound business
decision in the management levels and also provide the ways to outperform the competition and
inspire another members to perform better in the organisation so that objectives can be achieved
in the most effective manners. under this report, There will be discussion on the famous leader
named German Lobour Front, who is the founder of the Volkswagen ,how the leader helps the
organisation to achieve the set target in the shortest period of time and he influences the
operational management environment in the organisation.
TASK 2:
Define and explain the roles of the manager and leaders.
The leader is one who influences the behaviour of its employees in the organisation so that pre-
determine can be accomplished in the most profitable manners. the leader has to performs
various roles in organisation which conquer the desire levels of outcomes ,some of the roles are
stated below:
Mission and vision: the leader is responsible or its leader duty to set the mission and vision of
the members of the organisation so that goals can be achieved in the most effective ways. He
also helps in building the brand name for the organisation in the target market places.
Representative of the organisation: here the leader of the company are the representative of
the organisation in the target markets places. He is responsible to address the concern at the
seminars. Conferences and board meeting in the management levels.
Integrated the personal goals with the organisation objectives: the leader helps in
integrating the personal goals of the employees with the objectives of the organisation so that it
is win –win situation for everyone in the company.
Required at the all levels: leadership is requires at all the levels of the organisation as top level
task needs leader to make sound polices and plans. In the middle level, he act as executive to
make implement in the management levels.
Manager: he is responsible to integrates all the activities of the organisation which helps in
achieving the goals and objectives in the most effective manners, some of important role of the
manager are stated as follow:
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Interpersonal roles: the manager has interpersonal skills which helps him to manage the all the
employees as he act as symbol of legal authority such as signing the document and receiving the
visitors.
Information roles: the manager act a centre of all the organisation information and transfer to
its sub-ordinates to that task can be completed in proper manners. information can be collected
thought the medium of the meeting, conversation and documentation. Another things that he
manage the all the task in the most effective manners.
Decision roles: the manager have to make the good business decision in the management so
that organisation are able to achieve the desire outcomes. it is the role of the manager to manage
its workforces in such a way which helps the organisation to attended the goals within the time
period.
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(A)
An overview of the individual’s biography and career highlights:
The German Labor Front is the founder of the Volkswagen in1937, providing luxuries and
comfortable cars to its target audiences so that the organisation can build his brand image in the
market places and earn the profits. The Greman labour Front is able to mange various product to
launch in the target markets and create the brand name for the commodities such as Audi, SEAT,
Porsche, Lamborghini, Bugatti and many another brands for its goods and services. the German
is a great leader as its plan the blueprint for its employees which includes the study of the
market , what are demand and supply in the international levels, and produce the product
according to needs and wants of the target market places. He was able to provide most
comfortable cars in the automotive industry and created the brand image in the global levels
which helps to earn more profits and expand their operational activities. The German Lobor all
way has leadership quality which help him to run the organisation in the profitable manners and
giving expert advice to its shareholders, stakeholders, and investors so that best strategies can be
formed for the betterment of the organisation.
(B)
An introduction to the key operations of the organisation which leader transformed:
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The German has a good leadership skills which helps him to grow and expand the business of the
Volkswagen at the international levels and become the largest automaker at the global path form
in the 2016-2017. The organisation needs to move into new direction and good and services
must be accelerated and reduces the cost and competitive positioning can be make more
stronger .
Some of the key operations points which German follows while making the cars:
Good mission and vision: under this condition, the leader must have clear vision of the
organisation by knowing the what is the purpose of the company, what are the benefits of the
changes and what are the damage of not implementing the change in the organisation.
Put governance and management in place: here leader tries to align the organisation goals
with the governance of the market so that they can take the advantages in the competitive
market and executed the transformation roadmap and maintain the urgency in the organisation.
Engage the key stakeholders: leader has to look after the stakeholders will be proactively
involved in making the important transformation in the organisation and support and maintain
the their engagement.
Influences : the good leaders influences the behaviour of its team members and motivates them
to perform better in the task so that they can be more productivity in the organisation and
enhances the business operational activities.
Cultivation of new organisation culture: the leadership helps in implanting the new culture in
the organisation which helps the organisation to make better business strategies and modelling
the behaviour of the employees in desirable manners/
(c):
An evaluation how the internal and external operation management environment created an
atmosphere that allowed for that particular individual and his respective leadership approaches:
The internal and external factors that affects the business operations activities and the
leadership style in the management levels can be find in inside the organisation as well as outside
the company. German Labour Leaders with the internal reliability are ideally for the
multifaceted roles of the trusted, advisor, and manager as they are consistently true to their
beliefs and principles and ethically sound as their roles act the example for the rest of the
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members. The employees of the Volkswagen organisation are more likely to respond to the
direction from the leader who is confidents , cooperative , optimistic, supportive which will
ultimately the affects the organisation internal as well as in the external ways. Leaders needs to
have good leadership style which help in making the culture more of trust within the team, and
improves their performances from tasking the advise and commitments on the work from the
another fellow members. The leader needs to examine its environment to know what are
opportunities present in the work places, make picture of the desire outcomes and setting the
right attitudes and provide resources to the employees and gives rewards for the good inputs
from the team members. The increase in the disposable income of the target audiences helps the
company to earn more in the market as sales is going on enhancing in markets. providing the
luxury cars to its market , the German Labour gives the advices to make use good quality of
raw material to manufacture the desire levels of the cars so that customer can be loyal client for
the organisation in present as well as in the coming few years.
(D):
How operational efficiencies of the organisation improved to successful meet business objectives
using appropriate management and leadership approaches.
The operational efficiencies has a impact on the performances of the organisation as all the task
can be completed in the ,most productivity manners which leads to earn more profits in the long
run. The organisation are able to achieve the objectives by managing its employees in the most
effective manners and keep motivated them to give their best inputs in the given task. The
leader also tries to keep the morale of the organisation high by influencing the employees to
perform in the set procured and having different types of leadership style which needs to be
followed by the employees and all the members of the organisation. leader can use the
behavioural theories in their management levels to explain that leader are not made their holds
the quality from their born and according to this theories. The people can learn to become leader
by providing training and development programs. The situational theories of the management
and leadership style states that leader can chose the best solution for the action based on the
situational variables. The leader has good skills and knowledge which can helps gather
organisation to archive the target audiences within the set time period.
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(E):
Conclusion and supported the recommendation for the future improvement to be taken by the
leader and the respective improvements to be taken by the leader and the respective organisation
taking onto account how different factors affects the business environment .
The business environment gets affected by the various factors which can be present in the
internal as well as in the external environment , the competition present in the target market
affects the productivity of the organisation in the long run. Various legal laws also have impact
on the performances of the management activities in the organisation. The taste and preferences
of the customer also affects the outcomes of the organisation.
Recommendation :
The leader needs to develop the plan for unseen opportunities which are present in the
organisation environment so that they can make the best strategies and use the raw material in
the most effective manners. the leader needs to be flexible in their approaches so that they
different suit ion can be handle properly and in the most effective manners. leadership is act
here, the leader influences its fellow members and another team members to achieve the set
objectives in the most effective manners. the Volkswagen has its operational activists at the
international levels so they needs different types of skills to manage the team and finds the
better results for the organisation so that they can hold brand image and goodwill in the target
market places. The leader can introduces new product and services which reduces the cost for
the organisation as well as for the client.
Conclusion:
According to the study, it can be concluded that manager and leader are very important person
for any successful origination in the market. The leader provide the organisation and its members
a clear picture about the mission and vision of the organisation so that they work for common
objectives. The leader can use its leadership skills to empower team to perform better in the
given task and activities. The leader can adopt to different types of leadership according to the
need of the condition in the organisation. The German has great vision which helps him to be
number on the automotive industry and provide its customer which good quality of services in
the market and earn the in the present and coming time . the leader is one who take
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responsibility to improve and enhance the performances of its employees from time to time so
that task can be completed in the effective manners.
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