Leadership and Operational Management Strategies for Aston Martin PLC

This presentation provides an overview of operational management within Aston Martin Lagonda Global Holding PLC. It begins with a definition of operational management and contrasts the roles of leaders and managers. Key approaches such as Total Quality Management (TQM) and Six Sigma are discussed, along with their implementation and impact on waste management and productivity. The presentation emphasizes the importance and value of operational management, including its effects on product quality, customer satisfaction, revenue improvement, and waste reduction. It explores the roles of leaders and managers in improving operational processes, such as minimizing inventory and fostering an open environment. Finally, the presentation examines factors impacting the business environment, including political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal factors, using PESTEL and SWOT analyses to evaluate the company's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. The conclusion summarizes the key takeaways regarding the approaches of operational management and the factors influencing business operations.

Management and Operations

Table of Content
 Introduction
 Key Approaches of Operation Management and Role of Leader and Manager
 Importance and Value of Operation Management
 Role of Leader and Manager in Improvement of Operational Management Process
 Factors that impact within the business environment
 Conclusion
 References

Introduction
This presentation will explain key approaches of operational management in Aston
Martin Lagonda Global Holding PLC. The importance and value of operation
management will be studied in presentation (Alvesson and Kärreman, 2016). Aston
martin is an international automotive organization that was established in year 1913 by
Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford
Definition of Operational management
• Operation management is known as administration of business practices to gain
high level performance with in the organization.
• Operation management is mainly concerned Planning, organizing and
supervising in context of production and manufacturing with in an organization.

Leader Vs Manager
Manager Leader
Monitoring of various things with in
Aston Martin Lagonda Global Holding
PLC.
Planning the people of Aston Martin
Lagonda Global Holding PLC.
Organization of varios tasks with in Aston
Martin Lagonda Global Holding PLC.
Control operations of Aston Martin
Lagonda Global Holding PLC. Ensure the implentation of rules and
make people to follow the rules made by
Leaders.
Focus on people of Aston Martin Lagonda
Global Holding PLC. Inspire employees. Influence performance of employees. Motivate Employees.
Build various decisions for Aston Martin
Lagonda Global Holding PLC. Shape the entities
Impact of Leadership On performance of organization
The impact of leadership style is both positive and negative for company. Is the approaches that are used by
leader are good and based on employee and consumer requirement then it can improve the performance of
organization. If leadership is completely autocratic than it can reduce the employee motivation and it can also
reduce the performance of employees with in the organization function then it can negatively affect the
performance of the organization in the target market.
Critical analysis- Role of leader and manager is important for organization to maintain effective operation
management in organization. by this process organization can gain high effectiveness in market place.

Key Approaches of Operation Management and
Role of Leader and Manager
 Total Quality management  Six Sigma

Six Sigma Model
Define- In this step, all the objectives of project are defined specifically (Cardona, Rey
and Craig, 2019). This is all about defining problems and issues that are need to be
targeted in process of possible needs of model.
Measure – In this process various type of data has been collected in this process to
identify the scope and relevancy of project.
Analyse- In this stage the main issues of business inefficiency are analyse to make
proper policies to solve specific issues that are targeted in process.
Improve- This stage is all about identifying proper solution for issues that are identified
in previous stages.
Control- This process is consists of detailed monitoring and solution plan that can be
used by the leader to minimise the chances of failure in the process.
Critical Analysis- This approach is most effective for the waste management in the
organization. it also can help the organization to gain high productivity.

Total Quality management
The total quality management is a process that is used by the organization to maintain
effective quality and services standards with in organization operations (Collings, Wood
and Szamosi, 2018). This model of operation management is all about detecting,
reducing and eliminating various errors form operations process of organization to
maintain quality of products and services. There are different steps are followed in this
process which are-
Components of Total Quality Management-Focus on Consumer, Employee
Involvement, Process Centred Operations,Integrated system, Strategic And Systematic
approach, Decision making Based on Facts, Communication, Continuous operations.

Cont...
Role of Leader and Manager in TQM
•The role of leader in the Total Quality Management is to provide required resources to
perform various actions that are important for improving organizational operations.
•The role of manager in this process is to ensure the proper implementation of all stages
in total quality management processes.

Importance and Value of Operation Management
There are different ways in which operation management can help the organization
which are-
•Product Quality
•Customer Satisfaction
•Improve Company Revenue
•Waste Reduction

Cont...Product Quality
Operation management process help leader and manager to achieve effective quality of
products that are provided to customers. The main operation of the operation
management process is to improve the quality of products without spending too much
money in operational processes.
Customer Satisfaction
The consumer satisfaction is highly depended on durability and quality of product and
effectiveness of services that are provided to them (Rothaermel, 2016). Effective
operations will help the leader and manager to maintain the supply chain effectively and
best quality products and services.

Cont...
Improve Company Revenue
This is main benefit of operation management. Effective management process help the
organization to minimise the level of risk in business operations, it also reduces the cost
of manufacturing product and chances of failure also reduced by this process.
Waste Reduction
Effective operation management process includes various approached that can help the
organization to reduce the waste that produced with in manufacturing plant of company
(Maurer, Hartnell and Lippstreu, 2017).

Role of Leader and Manager in Improvement of
Operational Management Process
o Minimise the inventory of organization to reduce extra expenses.
o Create open environment for people to motivate and encourage them.
o Maintain flexibility in operation of manufacturing plant of Aston Martin Lagonda.
o Reduce the material movement by making effective changes in the six sigma process.
o Improve the monitoring and tracking process to develop better operation plan for
company.