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Human Resource Management Skills

   

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Running head: LEADERSHIP IN BUSINESSLeadership in business (Task 1 & Task 2)Name of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor Note
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1LEADERSHIP IN BUSINESSTask oneIntroductionAt 1924, Woolworth’s group opened their business of a retailer company in Sydney’sImperial Arcade. It is a supermarket or chains of groceries in Australia possessed byWoolworths Limited (Kulas 2016). A wide range of household products is available inWoolworths starting from fruits and vegetables, meat, seafood and Deli, then bakery, thenthey have pantry which includes breakfast and spreads, tea and coffee, snacks, herbs andspices, baking stuffs, condiments like chutney, salad dressings, mustard, pickles, differenttypes of sauces, they includes frozen meals as well like seafood, pizzas, vegetables. Meats toice creams and sausages are all available in their frozen list; they offer drinks and liquors,tobacco. They have products for the pets as well from cats to dogs to birds and fishes. It alsoincludes baby products, health and beauty care products to household daily necessities andlunch boxes (Wu et al. 2015).The prior strategic goal of Woolworths is that they want to be the customers’ numberone brand in over all the other brands in the market. To achieve this very goal they have littleprecedence like creating a customer as well as a store-led team and culture, initiatingsustainable momentum in sales for food, progressing with the drinks business to supply morevalue and benefit to the customers, authorizing the portfolio trade to follow the strategies todeliver the values of the shareholders. Lastly, it aims to become a lean retailer by end-to-endactivities and improving their excellence of the system. However their strategies are simplewhich aims at developing a team, refresh their stores, by reducing costs they want to improveprocesses, modernize the products presented and to enlarge cohesive brand. Woolworth’sorganizational values are the things that they believe in and for them their values are thefoundation and basis for their business. Their values make them distinct in the market. Themain value of Woolworths is that to offer a simple and honest deal and placing a quality
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2LEADERSHIP IN BUSINESSwithin the customers reach. Their value gives them the guidance and shows them thedirection of the behaviors and choices of the organization. Being true to their values, theyknow what their customers, employees, partners and suppliers want from them and so theycan successfully satisfy those. Figure 1: The diagram showing the top management of Woolworth in an OrganizationalChartWoolworths top executive comprise of the Group marketing director and CEO underthem there are the non-executive directors, chairman, chief general managers, director of the
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3LEADERSHIP IN BUSINESSsupermarkets, chief logistics and information officer, general manager of human andresources. The chief general manager of liquor and petrol, director general merchandise andbig W, chief financial officers general manager corporate services general businessdevelopment and general manager of property are also under him. Now under the Directorsupermarkets, there are general supermarket operations and general manager mercuryprogram and under general manager human resources, there is general manager ofWoolworth academy. Finally, under the director general merchandise and general managerbig W there is general manager Dick smith electronics and general manager big W.Organizational structure holds an importance for a company as it helps in the internalfunctions which is necessary for decision making. Structures can be both flat and tallstructures. Small company uses the flat structure and large company’s uses the tall structureas the Woolworth is using the tall structure. Organizational structure is also necessary for thecommunication as it fairly distributes the authority. This organizational structure in acompany actually assesses the performance of the employee. It actually helps in the race ofachieving the goals as it permits a series of commands. However, organizational structuresactually help the company to handle better the changes in the marketplace involving theneeds of the customers, regulations imposed by the government and the updated technologies(Tran and Tian 2013). There is a huge chance of professional growth in Woolworth as it provides amplequality of training to their already existing staffs so that they can improve and can built theircapabilities. Woolworth priority is that their employees can work in a safe environment. Theygive equal opportunities to all employees irrespective of their genders. Woolworth hascurrently 205,000 employees and over 584 job vacancies in Australia and has 3,000 differentplaces for them to work and so they give a perfect job opportunity to their staff members.Apart from the salaries, they receive extra monetary help if he/she is injured in the work
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