Management And Operation

Task 1

P1) Define and compare different roles and characteristics of leader and manager in operations

Operation management is defined as the area of managerial concept which is concerned with designing and controlling the various process of production and restructuring the business operation again and again. In context with Starbucks, leader and manager are two most key person who is responsible for functioning and productivity of an organisation.

Leaders: 

Person who lead their team or group of individuals on the front-line and with the purpose to motivate and coordinating accordingly to achieve well-defined goals and targets.

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Manager: 

The common person whose tasks and responsibilities is to manage and control the functional activities of an organisation such as fund out flow, production function, staffing etc. At some context, work and responsibilities of the both key managerial person are interlinked and similar.

For big organisation namely Starbucks, it is necessary to understand and analyse skills, traits and knowledge of the leader and manager. This will be best explained by doing brief comparison are as follows:

For Starbucks, various roles and characteristics of the leader Business and manager are necessary to be discuss and analyse to understand their accountability and perfection to attain and achieve organisational goals and targets. The above discussion are as follows:

Roles and characteristics: 

Leader: 

Strong supporter:

 Leader's main tasks and role is to support and motivate their team or  groups to make realize their actual potential or abilities. For such role, leader needs to have characteristics such as accurate listener, employee engagement, analytical an convenience skills  and perfect attitude and personality to motivate and empower their employee to attain organisational goals and targets.

Representative: 

Leader needs to act as representative of the company as well as team supporter in several conditions. In context with Starbucks, leader needs to have characteristics such as confidence, motivation, personality and belief to take initiative and responsibilities to act as the representative.

Manager:   

Effective leader: 

In context with Starbucks, manager should be able to lead and manage the workforce and overall employee in an organisation. To perform such role, a manager must have traits such as emotional stability, enthusiasm and self assurance etc. Manager should ensure that his traits and skills must contribute to various functioning of the management.

Key personnel: 

Manager is considered as the person who sit on major responsibilities. In context with Starbucks, an effective manager needs to realize their importance and potential to act as key personnel inside and outside an organisation. In context with Starbucks, manager needs to be dependent and have traits such as decision making, effective management and training skills etc.

After such discussion, it is advisable that Starbucks should provide effective training and development to their employee and workforce to be dependent and can hold such prolonged responsibilities and duties of leader and manager. Along with this, both the key personnel needs to enhance their motivation and confidence level to handle various work pressure and responsibilities in an organisation.

P2 How the role

In context with Starbucks, both leader and manager needs to realize and know their roles and function in order to attain well-defined goals and targets of an organisation. In context with Starbucks, there are various leadership situations which is necessary to know the suitability and to realize how long the leadership will be carry on. Different leadership situation are as follows:

Autocratic: 

This type of leadership allows leader to take full and ultimate control of decision making without any consultation from an authority. In context with Starbucks, leader must possess high level of power and abilities to influence their team member and individual. For this organisation, it is necessary to enhance the morale and confidence of an employee to get effective output and results. On the other side, team member are no  more longer to take separate decision. The major disadvantage would be rising of the clashes and conflict  

Democratic:

 In this type of leadership, team members are independent and have right and freedom to participate in an activities, function and decision making of an organisation. In context with Starbucks, democratic leadership can easily apply to this organisation and would become beneficial to gain positive and effective results for an organisation.

Laissez-faire leadership:

Under this leadership, leader do not exercise their power and control on its employees directly. If an employees is highly experienced and motivated and also needs supervision, Laissez-faire leader will fail to provide feedback to their employee's who are in under their supervision. In context with Starbucks, this kind of leadership is also associated with leader who is not engaged in supervising own team, failed to provide feedback, lack of control etc.  

Starbucks should use democratic leadership approach, where every employee have freedom and power to share their own idea and knowledge to implement strategies and plan ta attain well-structured goals and targets.

Function of manager: In context with Starbucks, this is necessary to know and analyse several function of the manager according to the Henry Fayol. These brief explanation of functions are as follow:

Planning: 

This is the primary and foremost function of the manager. In this stage, manager needs to plan and implement various strategies and process to achieve an organisational goals effectively. In context with Starbucks, manager needs to plan various things such as what sort of goal or targets, organisation needs to achieve and how to attain such decided objectives. After such clarification, planning comes into the light and process. Organisation needs to do brief market research before formulating various plans and strategies for achieving well-defined goals and objectives.

For example: Starbucks has decided to raise their business and customer by 5 percent of gradual increase. For this, they need to implement well-structured plan and strategies to drive it into the real business.

Organizing: 

This is the second stage of this whole functional process. In this function, top manager used to delegate particular task and work to their employee to complete it in early time. In context with Starbucks,  top manager needs to analyse and know the abilities and potential of each and every employee in order to achieve organisational goals effectively.

For example: Starbucks has recently decided to assign and delegate to do brief research on consumer behaviour towards coffee and its suitability in the future. For this, they setup a team of almost 4 members and assigned their duties to make it possible.

Commanding: 

This is the third stage of the manager function. In this, manager needs to give command and order to their co-employees to perform their task and work in the proper manner. In this process, manager needs to give proper training and development to gather information and knowledge.

For example: Starbucks top manager and personnel's has commanded their employee's and workforce to conduct brief survey and market observation to implement plans and strategies to achieve their target of 10 percent rise in the business of the Starbucks.

Controlling:

This is the fourth stage of whole manager functional process. In context with Starbucks, manager needs to look at and control the various activities and task performing by the workforce of an organisation. For having better performance and efficiency, proper training and development is required for every employee to achieve company goals and targets in an effective and efficient manner.

For example: Starbucks needs to raise their employee's work accountability and potential to achieve the target of 10 percent in the business and customer strength. In could only be possible by which giving effective training and development to their employee.

Staffing: 

This is the last stage of manager function process. In this, manager can hire appropriate candidate for defined and available job position and roles. In context with Starbucks, if the senior wants to hire prospective candidate, they may need to follow complete process of   the recruitment along with training and development. It will be useful to gain and achieve competitive advantage of the business.  &n

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