Managing Human Capital and Leadership Assignment - Marks & Spencer

Managing Human Capital
and leadership

ABSTRACT
Human resource management and leadership are very important for an organization to
coordinate or manage each and every activity of an organization. To lead in market organization
have to apply various models and approaches so that effective results should be accomplished in
better way. To being technologically advance organization have to adopt kinds of software
programme by evaluating their concerns in better way.

Table of Contents
ABSTRACT.....................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................4
Discussion/ Literature review:.........................................................................................................4
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................4
Drawing an relevant HRM models, analyse approach of organization to management of its
Human resource..........................................................................................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................7
Organisation’s HR functions in relation to strategic human resource initiatives.......................7
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................12
Critically evaluate a number of HRM software programs that are available off the shelf.......12
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................13
Discuss characteristics of an effective leader by considering various issues............................13
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................16

INTRODUCTION
Organizational leadership and human resource are the most effective in which human
resource related to people who work for an organization and department that responsible for
managing resources related to personnel. On other hand leadership is an individual who
coordinate and manage each and every activity of the employees and plays important part in
decision making. This report is based on Marks & Spencer which is an British multinational
retailer, its headquarter is in London and it specialize in clothing, home appliances and food
product. This report is based on relevant HRM models and approaches to manage human
resources. It also elaborates various HR functions by relating it SHRM initiatives by
recommanding it. Further in it involves HRM software programs by evaluating characteristics of
an effective leader by considering issues to resolve them.
Discussion/ Literature review:
TASK 1
Drawing an relevant HRM models, analyse approach of organization to management of its
Human resource.
Human resource management is an important concept to manage people who work for
the organization and department accountable to coordinate or manage resources related to
employees (Armstrong and Taylor, 2014.). There are various models related to Human resource
that provides practical framework to study HRM, that are as follows:
The Fombrun Model, Harvard model, Guest model and at last Warwick model of Human
resource.
The Fombrun model:
It is the first model of Human resource and emphasise on major four functions and build
strong relationship among them (Cascio, 2015.). In major functions are selection, appraisal of
employees, development and rewards. All these functions majorly contributes in organizational
effectiveness . The adverse side of model that it only focus on four major functions of Human
resource by ignoring environmental and contingency factors of it. It is an important model that
can be avail by Marks & Spencer to manage all major functions of Human resource.
The Harvard model: