Roles, Theories, and Application of Leadership and Management

This report delves into the core distinctions between the roles of leaders and managers, analyzing their characteristics and functions within an organizational context. It explores various leadership and management theories, including trait theory and management theory, and discusses their advantages and disadvantages. The report also examines the application of these theories in real-world scenarios, such as Sainsbury plc, to illustrate how leaders and managers contribute to effective operations and overall business success. Furthermore, it highlights the importance of operational management approaches, such as Total Quality Management (TQM), in ensuring quality and efficiency. The report concludes by emphasizing the critical roles leaders and managers play in strategic planning and crisis management.

Management and
Operation.

Table of Content
• Introduction.
• Compare the different role and characteristics of leader and manager.
• Different theories of leadership and management.
• Advantages and Disadvantages of Leadership and Management theories.
• Conclusion.
• References.

Introduction
Management is a type of administrative of an organisation where it undertakes the regular
operating activities related with profit and non-profit. It is needed at different level as per
requirements in context of utilising term for production process in organisation. The activities
which driven in operation as logistics, distribution, procuring and further more
(Balasubramaniam and et. al., 2016). The concept of Operation Management is helpful for
particular company in order to commodities cost that assort for maximisation profitability
towards company.

Cont..
As in report topics are discuss the difference between characteristics and roles of leaders and
manager along with describe the functions of manager in different situation based. Apart, it
apply theories and approaches of leadership with better understand about leader roles and
function of manager as they plan for operation function of company. In Last, it depicts about
relationship with leadership and management in related business environment.

Compare the different role and characteristics of
leader and manager.
Management: It is framework of art which is useful to getting people for involving in
activity which has necessity to presumes as in all types of management. Effective
management brings positive outcomes in premises in terms of productivity or making
successful the company in another level (Bott and Luna, 2017). The management system of
Sainsbury plc, their manager are efficient enough as having ability to scrutinize and handle
situation perfectly even they motivate to employees through which they can accomplish
targets.

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Leadership: It is undertaken the concept
which depicts about a leader who
provide positive influence and motivate
towards goals for accomplish.

Basic Leader Manager
Meaning A word leader came from leadership
that describes process of social
influence in which individual person
who tend to support and provide
optimum guidance to
accomplishment the common task
(Chan and et. al., 2018).
Manager are those who monitor
and control the activities with
other in organisation. They
basically control the activities by
utilising of managerial skills or
holding the organisational whose
having high competency to
command a certain unit.
Role As Sainsbury plc, approaches
leader for making their staffs
productive through getting learn
skills and knowledges from leader
that provide benefits to organisation.
By having a manager in
Sainsbury plc it would brings the
sort of discipline and having
ability to control the situation.
Characteristics

Basic Leader Manager
Characteristics An effective leader are type of
systematic personality that develop
trust with employees. Similarly,
leaders of Sainsbury plc are
supportive and provide guidance to
workforce about how they pursue
their task in compliance oriented
manner (Ellis., Smart Storage Systems,
2015).
● Leaders are more focuses and
having good perception power to
enhancement of people , as
Sainsbury plc leader commence
their planning to guide employees
by evaluating individual behaviour.
● The manager are less
supportive rather than provide
order to complete task. In
Sainsbury plc, manager
scrutinize their employee
performance and assigned
task on the basis of
capabilities.
● The power of decision is
undertaken through manager
and handed over to board of
director who are involve in
discussion to evaluating the
alternatives. As manager of
Sainsbury they creates policies
and instruct to employees to
pursue the work on the basis
under regulation.

Different theories of leadership and management.
There are concept of leadership and management theories:
Leadership Theory: As in this theory, it defines about the set of brought to reflect traits
which helps to individual for aspiring to become a proficient leader (Fitzpatrick and et. al,
2015). There is one of the theory which elaborates behalf of Sainsbury plc.
become a proficient leader. There is one of the theory which elaborates behalf of Sainsbury
plc
Trait Theory: In this particular theory it depicts about to predicts the effective
leadership features in individual leader.

Cont.
Management Theory: The theory which consists collection of creativity or ideas which
refers general rules about how to manage organisation business effectively. Moreover, it also
address that how managers design and implement their strategical approach to accomplish
organisation and how they motivate employees to perform at their highest ability (Higgins.,
Fitzpatrick and Dancho, 2015). It contains one of theory which relates to Sainsbury plc
manager working process.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Leadership and
Management theories.
Trait Theory:
Advantages: it is provide benefits in terms of favourable attributes that allows to measure
the people in terms of personality and work quality for mapping behaviour.
Disadvantages: As it is consuming more time to assess behaviour and attributes for
submitting the individual performance report.

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Management theory:
Advantages: By enhancing effective training that helps to develop physical and mental
stability to achieving important objectives which are related with organisation.
Disadvantages: Through implementing Scientific management theory where it helps to
boost up the individual working mobility, but it can provide negative impact in terms of
health consideration.