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For this assessment of Advanced Practitioner Corporate Award, it include a business report which evaluate approaches to leadership and management within the organisation. The organisation of focus is Hertfordshire and West Essex ICS NHS Procurement Services (HWE). As part of this business report, an evaluation of impact of leadership and management on HWE behaviours, leadership approaches to job satisfaction impact and sources of power and its application. Further, part of this business report entail an evaluation of the relevance of equality and diversity policies in HWE. To obtain relevant findings in this report, different tools including PESTLE have been used. Also, leadership styles models have been evaluated to note on their impact on organisation behaviour. The findings in this report evidence that leadership and management are applied interchangeably. Further, leadership and job satisfaction have a direct correlation. Also, the CIPS Module Notes and peer reviewed journals and publications note to influence staff wellbeing. The findings also evidence existence of individual-centric leadership process as best contrary to job-centered operating in high-level competitive business sector. From the stakeholders analysis, by use of Mendelow Matrix, it identify different stakeholders as holding varying powers which are distributed and exercised for organisation success. Finally, the findings indicate HWE equality and diversity policies as appropriate and relevant for the organisation with optimum gains attained. From the identified gaps in the analysis, and conclusions made, various recommendations have been identified including;

• Pursue capacity development strategies (coach and mentor others) for facilitating appreciating leadership and management functions as followers
• Integrating situational and transformational leadership and management in HWE
• Investing in effective communication strategy to influence stakeholders functions
• Create a system for ensuring efficiencies in resolving all challenges
• Diversification of eProcurement system to harness equality and diversity of suppliers as part of their operations
• Merge HWE departments in procurement for enhancing efficiencies and eliminating wastes from roles duplicated in leadership and management process