Comparing Leadership and Management in Sainsbury's Report

This report provides an in-depth analysis of management and leadership within the context of Sainsbury's, a major UK supermarket chain. The report begins with an introduction to the organization and its management structure, highlighting the functional structure and its role in employee motivation and coordination. It then differentiates between managers and leaders, emphasizing the distinct roles and responsibilities each holds in driving the company's vision and goals. Furthermore, the report explores the interrelationship between various business functions, such as marketing, research and development, production, and finance, demonstrating how these functions are interconnected and influence each other. The conclusion summarizes the key findings, emphasizing the importance of effective management and the interconnectedness of business functions for organizational success. The report also includes references to support its arguments.

Introduction to
Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
1 An introduction of the organisation and its management structure .........................................3
2. Differentiation between manger and leaders...........................................................................4
3. Interrelationship between various function of business in the organization............................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Management plays a vital role to achieve organisational goals in a very effective and
efficient way. Effective management includes planning, directing, staffing, controlling and
organizing the organisational resource in a great way. Sainsbury's organisation is a supermarket
company. In the UK, Sainsbury is a third biggest chain of super markets. The company has a
control over 15.3% share in the supermarket sector. The organisation founded by John James
Sainsbury in 1869. This report will includes introduction of the organisation and its management
structure. This report will also highlight the definition and roles of managers and leaders in the
organisation and the various differences between the management and leadership. This report
will also state the interrelation within the business functions of the Sainsbury's organisation and
also includes the theories of management.
MAIN BODY
1 An introduction of the organisation and its management structure
Organisation refers to a process or act conduct specific tasks by group of people who
comes together for conducting that task. It is a process and act to identifying and gathering the
task to be performed, establishing relationships with the group of people, delegating tasks and
responsibilities for the purpose of encouraging people to conduct task in a most effective manner
for achieving objectives or goals (Chance and Brooks., 2015). Organisation is known a group of
people who works together to accomplishing objectives in a better way. Every organisations
have different rules and policies according to the locality, culture and work environment. It is
association of persons and they try to achieve organisational goals as well as private goals. The
organisations includes three types of business such as partnership, corporation and sole
proprietorship. The Sainsbury's is a public limited company and a retailing industry. Sainsbury's
is a supermarket company. It is a UK's third biggest chain in super markets industry.
Organisation is established by multiple people for gaining specific objectives. Sainsbury's
organisation adopts the systematic functions and great management in their business operations.
Organisations have various types such as government, non government organisations,
corporations, international organisations, non profit organisations, cooperatives, partnerships,
political organisations, educational institutes etc (Waugh., 2015).
The management structure of the organisation includes power, roles and responsibilities
and its assignment, control and coordination. The effective organisational structure manage these

activities in a very effective manner. The Sainsbury's organisational structure includes
functional structure in their organisation. The employees of the Sainsbury's organisation hold
equivalent positions and work for similar tasks. The create a group according to the employee's
ability and skills. Functional structure in the organisation will improve the motivation and
coordination in the workers (Shaw., 2016). It also involves several activities such as sales,
marketing, production and human resources. A great management structure improve the
employees work performance and productivity. It will create a major platform for the
organisation to enhance their market share in a great way. The company needs to take essential
actions for manage a strong management structure to enhance their market image. String
management structure generate a significant results for the business and business activities. It
will encourage the employees or workers for business success and achieving organisational
goals. The Sainsbury's organisation has effective management structure which will assist the
organisation to conduct their operations and functions without facing the issues. Development of
attractive management structure plays a integral role in any organisation. It helps to expand
organisation's business globally. It also assists to inspire employees or staffs towards the
improving productivity and performances to generate more profitability. It will create a better
environment in the workplace and positively influence the workers activities (Phillips, Neal and
Webb., 2016).
2. Differentiation between manger and leaders.
There is the existence of difference between the manager a leader in the Sainsburry as the
leader is the one who tends to have people who follow them on the other hand manger are the
one who actually make people managed to work for them (Sanda. and Arthur, 2017.). There is
requirement of strong leader in making the decision. The company tends to have the
management which have the consistency of both strong leader and manger which helps the team
to have the proper implementation of goal and objectives which make the company to have
movement towards the mission and vision of company in longer perspective of business.
Leaders have the tendency to have creation of vision along the manager is to have created
the goals. Leaders used to have proper inspiration and engagement so that people in turning out
to be vision into reality as the manager have major focus in setting, measuring and achieving the
gaols in order to have the proper control over situation without exceeding the objectiveness.

The leader in Sainsburry is considered to be change agents as the proud disrupters as innovation
is being identified to make the things to move better (.Jones and Comfort, 2019). On the other
hand manager have sickness towards the works along with having proper refining system and
structuring process in order to make everything better.
Leaders in the working of organization is considerer as the unique as there are self-aware
and used to work more effectively in building there differentiated brand personalty. On the other
has manager is used to have the mimicry of competencies along with behaviour as there are
want to have learning various level of consideration over adaption of leadership styles rather than
definition it.
The manager have tendency to have control over the risk in order to have systematic
control over problems rather than embracing them. So the other hand leaders are term as the
major willingness in order to have major try over think which have major involvement of failure.
In addition to that leaders have intentionality makes the followers to have stay motivation as to
goal is considered to be disant. On the other hand manager have to work shorter term goal
seeking more regular acknowledgement or accolades (Frankel, Gelman and Pastor., 2018).
Manger are having major consideration in building the proper system and process in
order to pay major attention of the structure to achieve the gaols. On other hand leaders have
focus on people as all stakeholders need to have major influence in order to have revalorization
of the vision of company.
3. Interrelationship between various function of business in the organization.
In business there are major identification of four major business functions which are
considered as marketing, research and development function, productions and financial function.
The relationship between marketing and finance is all the plans of marketing have the major
dependency on financial dimensionality (Ellison, 2018). The company have the major
dependency in the budgeting and profitability analysis of company as the key major aspects as
marketing tools of planning and control. The company marketing decision have been identified
as investment or financial decision.
There is level of interdependency between marketing and production is most important in
development of innovative products. There is the level of existence in relationship of designing
the new products along with facilities is based on the extensive market research done by the
marketing department of the company. It is necessary to have proper level of understandability in

major level of conflict that huge to be arisen. The there is involvement of the specific solution.
The company have the major implication in establishment of connection along with interrelation
of different marketing ans productions activities.
Production function and marketing function are regarded as relationship in making the
business in degree to have efficient level of palsying for the development of procurement
activities which can be considered as level of advance level of employment. Marketing helps in
acceptance of new available material along with having type of relationship in procuring the new
martial and equipments.
The marketing function have establishment of researched development which is having
close level of relationship in making proper level of marketing and product developmental
effortless (Cuthbertson, Furseth and Ezell, 2015). The company has been identified as the varsity
of many terotechnologist have development of Realistic expectations and an organizational
climate which encourages the interface between the two functions and stimulates innovation are
essential ingredients for successful new product development efforts.
Hence there is basis relationship between the various organizational function along with
structure which helps in proper level of indemnification of voracious level of chain in command
which have the differentiation through the implementation of different levels.
CONCLUSION
From the above report, it is concluded that the effective management is very necessary in
the company to conduct operations and activities in a organized way. Sainsbury's is a great
supermarket company and also adopt effective management structure in their organisation.
Management and leadership are the two main factors in the organisation. Without them, the
functions of business is impossible. They both have main role in the organisation's all operations
and activities. The business functions in the organisation are linked with each other. Business
functions such as research and development functions, marketing functions and production
functions, accounting and financial functions are connected with each other. The marketing
functions of the organisation depends on the productions functions. The financial functions are
totally connected with the accounting functions. All the organisational functions are interlinked
with each other and the one's function activities is impacted by another functions effectiveness.

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