Management and Leadership in Meteor
Assignment 2 – Management, roles and authority
Paulina Valdivia Arias
BTEC Course
Management and leadership in Meteor 1. Introducing Meteor
There are plenty of theories about what leadership and management means, but most of the people give it for granted. Several people, just tend to criticize their managers, or these complain about their people, but very few times, people really understand what’s beyond this, and comprehend that there are different types of managing, as well as there are different types of personalities, or leadership styles. However, in this paper, a company will be analysed, about its management: Meteor.
Meteor is a telephone mobile company that started in 1986 in Ireland. It’s part of a bigger company called Eircom, and it has about 30% of market share. Is a very big company, and at the same time, very complex, because it requires different style of management in the different areas, either in the corporative (Marketing, Finance, etc), or in the Retail shops located in several cities in Ireland. Each department has very specific needs, including a proper management.
Nevertheless, it’s important to know about the different styles of management, in order to understand the organisation itself, and the way of governing it. In the next sections, will be analysed theoretically and practically, management styles.
2. Compared leadership styles
In order to understand better the concept of management, and therefore apply it effectively, first will be described some different styles of leading.
First of all, it’s important to understand that a manager is bureaucratily a leader of a group, but this doesn’t guarantee his/her leadership. A leader must go beyond the structured scheme, and inspire the team to work in a committed and successful way. As it is stated by Laurie J. Mullins “Leaders need to focus on moving people and organisations forward by increasing the competency of staff and the co-operation of teams in order to improve the
Paulina Valdivia Arias
BTEC Course
Management and leadership in Meteor 1. Introducing Meteor
There are plenty of theories about what leadership and management means, but most of the people give it for granted. Several people, just tend to criticize their managers, or these complain about their people, but very few times, people really understand what’s beyond this, and comprehend that there are different types of managing, as well as there are different types of personalities, or leadership styles. However, in this paper, a company will be analysed, about its management: Meteor.
Meteor is a telephone mobile company that started in 1986 in Ireland. It’s part of a bigger company called Eircom, and it has about 30% of market share. Is a very big company, and at the same time, very complex, because it requires different style of management in the different areas, either in the corporative (Marketing, Finance, etc), or in the Retail shops located in several cities in Ireland. Each department has very specific needs, including a proper management.
Nevertheless, it’s important to know about the different styles of management, in order to understand the organisation itself, and the way of governing it. In the next sections, will be analysed theoretically and practically, management styles.
2. Compared leadership styles
In order to understand better the concept of management, and therefore apply it effectively, first will be described some different styles of leading.
First of all, it’s important to understand that a manager is bureaucratily a leader of a group, but this doesn’t guarantee his/her leadership. A leader must go beyond the structured scheme, and inspire the team to work in a committed and successful way. As it is stated by Laurie J. Mullins “Leaders need to focus on moving people and organisations forward by increasing the competency of staff and the co-operation of teams in order to improve the