Organisational Overview
This assignment is in the context of Huawei for understanding management operations and the
theories for effective functioning of organisation. Huawei is one of the leading providers of
information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. Huawei is
operating in more than 194 countries around the world with nearly 194,000 employees. Huawei
aims for sustainable socio-economic development striving to build better connected world through
providing consumer electronics and telecommunication infrastructure. [ CITATION Hua20 \l 1033 ]
The competitors of Huawei are Samsung, Xiaomi etc.
Organisational structure
Huawei has a well-established organisational structure. At the top of organisation sits board of
directors. The CEO who is leading all the divisional managers comes under the board of directors.
Huawei maintains a strong central control over its operations. Huawei aims to standardise quality
and organisational vision throughout all sections of the organisation.
Roles of leader and manager
Leader and manager have different roles in an organisation. There functions help the organisation to
grow and to make customers and employees happy and satisfied. A leader is an individual person
who gets the work done by company employees. Leader motivates its employees by leadership and
communication skills. He encourages them for the creation of new techniques for production of new
products.
On the other side manager is an individual who design and manage the work of an organisation. He
is responsible of planning, directing and overseeing the managing operations.
(thebalancecareers,2018). The manager is also responsible for overseeing and leading a group of
workers in an organisation. Manager are always trying to improve their method to make sure they
are progressing on the same pace as they have planned.
Differences of leader and manager
A leader should be Honest and should have an ability of leading it employees in effective manner. A
leader should be creative and should come up with new ideas. The communication skills should be
good, and a leader should also listen to company employees. Leader should be good at commitment
and should try to reach specific task before deadline. Lastly a leader should be a good decision-
making person
A manager has to show positive attitude toward work. Responsibility is one of main characteristic of
a manager. A manager has to be reliable to work and has to be available for employees when
needed. A good manager has full confidence in his abilities, experience, and decisions.
Role of leader and Function of Manager
The main difference between leaders and managers is that leaders have people as followers
while managers have people who work for them. (go2hr,2020) If an organisation has to be
successful, it must have strong leader as well as strong manager. Leader engages people or followers
to convert vision into reality. Manager focus on achieving goals set by leader. If the system is not
working properly leader can bring change to the system but on the other hand manager must follow
the same system. Leader are willing to try out new things even though they might badly fail. While
manager wants minimum risk, so they avoid trying to bring new ideas. Leader works and thinks while
manager works for short time goals. Leader motivates people to become their follower and later as a
promoter for their brand or company. Manager have employees who follow his directions. Manager
seeks to please the boss. (William Arruda, Frobes,2016)
Function of Management
Planning, Organizing, Directing and Monitoring are the four different function of management.
Planning: It is first management function in which detail action plan is made for an organisation. It is
important part of manager life in which objective, goal and deadlines are made. Planning is done in
advance to keep a check and balance of an organisation. It is necessary to be done to see that
resources are used in a proper way.
Organizing: This is the second of managerial function. In which resources are distributed and
organized. Managers assign right number of employees for a specific work or plan. In this activity are
grouped and divided between employees, depending on how much they are responsible.
Directing: This is the third management function. In this step, manager spend time connecting with
employees on interpersonal level. Manager motivates, encourage, and inspire employees to a higher
level of productivity.
Monitoring: In this function manager measure performance of their employees and see how much
their employees are doing for the work assign to them.
