Leadership and Resource Management Report: Winston's of York Analysis

This report analyzes the resource management practices for Winston's of York, a clothing business facing declining productivity. It examines the development of human resource functions, including planning, recruitment, performance management, training, and rewards, highlighting their importance in achieving organizational goals. The report investigates the resources required to meet business aims and objectives, focusing on human and financial resources, and presents a detailed budget plan. It also includes a cash flow projection for the next 12 months. The report emphasizes the need for monitoring and control to ensure the success of the formulated plans, and evaluates the use of resources against the organizational plan. The report concludes by stressing the importance of effective resource management for enhancing business productivity. The report explores key elements such as sales personnel, raw materials, and training resources needed to support the business plan, emphasizing the need for organic cotton and skilled sales teams.

Resource Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.............................................................................................................................3
Appraise the development of human resource function.........................................................3
Investigate and plan resources required to achieve business aims and objectives.................5
Evaluate and Appraise the use of resources against the organisational plan.........................8
Plans to ensure optimum use of resources and remedial plans when required......................8
CONCLUSION........................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES.........................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Resource management refers to a function in an organisation in which business is
successfully managing all the resources that is present with them effectively. It is required by
organisation to make sure that they are managing various resources with them that includes
people, time, equipments, finances and so on. Winston's of York is an organisation dealing in
men and children clothing (Sancho and et. al., 2018). They are successfully producing 100%
organic clothing and accessories. In recent times the business is facing decline in their
productivity. In the following report a plan is created in order to make sure that the business
in Winston's of York can be managed successfully fulfilling all their goals and objectives.
Major focus is paid upon the human resource management in the organisation in order to
make sure that all the employees in organisation are working towards achievement of goals of
the business. The report is explaining various resources require by organisation and ways in
which all these resources will help business to fulfil it requirements. Optimised used of
resources and remedial actions required for the plan are also described ion the following
report.
MAIN BODY
Appraise the development of human resource function
There are various functions performed by human resource management. In an
organisation human resource and their benefits are useful to achieve the organisational goals
and objective. The various function of human resource management are:
Human resource planing: This is first function of Human resource in an
organisation. This help to identify the future needs of organisation (Rode and et. al., 2016)
(Rowley and et. al., 2017). It include functions like what type of people does organisation
want and also quantity of people. This all planing helps to formulate plan for recruitment,
selection, performance management, training and development and many human resource
functions. The manager of Winston of york must know their human workforce potential and
on the basis of that they initiate their human resource planning, they follow set of action
which is mentioned above. Candidate must know about the goals and objective of Winston to
fulfil it by their hard work.

Recruitment and selection: this is second function which is driven by human
resource. Attracting people for work in organisation and selecting the potential candidate.
The influencing of candidate for work is start with employee brand (Suškevičs and et. al.,
2018). When candidates are apply, selection is an HR part which major task is to choose best
qualified and potential candidate for organisation who have ability to compete the
organisational goal and objective in short time. The manager of Winston follow these
procedure which help him to select best employee for an organisation. In the context with
selected firm, these step is taken because it help to develop valuable workforce in
organisation by selecting qualified and best employee’s for work.
Performance management: performance management is an major task which ensure
that employee are productive and engaged . Best performance management include quality of
leadership, focused on goals, and open feedback. Whereas, performance management is
defined as technique in which annual performance of any employee is reviewed, in which
employee is analyse by their manager. It also consist of 360 degree feedback curriculum
which help to review employee’s in every aspect. This type of tools is helpful to providing
feedback. In the context with Winston, this tool is follow by manager to review their
employee and analyse how useful they are, and their contribution to organisation.
Training and development: The responsibility of human resource is probably enables
employee to develop their skill which is essential for future. Human resource have a set of
budget for training and development of employee (Koppmair and et. al., 2017). Human
resource plan this in such a way where employee are involved in training programmes and
this help to develop skill. As per aspect of Winston's, superior must interact with manager to
make proper budget for training and learning. Whether new employee are trained in such a
way where after a time while they became task oriented and achieve the goals of
organisation.
Function evaluation: This evaluation is a technical role of human resource which
help to involve in comparison with different function terms of qualification, the quality and
availability of candidate, job location and various place, the routine of work, the financial
condition, job role and responsibilities, and how much assets that have add to organisation.
There are different ranking function which are ranking method, classification method, points
method and personal method. The Winston's manager apply this technique to their
organisation to know about employee like how much they are contributing in organisation,
this help to evaluate the employee.

Rewards: rewarding employee for their work is a function that help to built the spirit
towards the work. Rewards include growth and career opportunities, status, recognition, a
well organisation structure lead to good culture and also balance their work and life. Usually
there are monetary rewards but sometime the non monetary rewards are also available which
are-
 Base salary
 Performance based pay
 Rewards bonus
 Social environment autonomy Formal and informal development opportunities.
Personal well-being: The major function of human resource is being involved in the
employee well being. In which they take care of employee personal problem (Kemper and et.
al., 2016). Personal well-being is about supporting when their thing are not goes as per plan.
This approach is taken by Winston's manager to create a supportive nature towards the
employee. That helps the employee to attached with organisation and providing hundred
percent on any task.
Investigate and plan resources required to achieve business aims and objectives
Overview of the organisation: Winston's of York is a family run business. The
organisation is providing with men's and children's clothing in York. They are designing their
own accessories, shirts and sweatshirts. They are also focusing upon different designs for
their t-shirts that are considered to be cool and are also derived by history, geometry, and a
number of funky pieces with animals designed over them.
Aims: The aim of organisation is to sustain in market for longer period of time
producing 100% organic clothes and accessories.
Objectives: Due to the decline that is seen by the organisation in recent times it is
necessary for them to make sure that they are successfully generating new objectives for
them. These are to be attained by the organisation in coming 12 months (Coppens and et. al.,
2016). Objectives formulated for enhancement of productivity in organisation are as
followed:
 To formulate training and development programme for employees
 To retain employees in organisation for a longer period of time. To manage the inventory in business.

Mission: The mission of business is to develop themselves successfully as an organic
clothing brand.
Vision: Vision of organisation is to produce trendy clothes to attract huge number of
consumers towards them.
Resources : Resources refer to all the things that are required by business in order to
successfully meet all their objectives. In the following case Winston's of York is seeing a
decline in their productivity continuously. The organisation is facing huge employee
turnover, the sales for the organisation is decreasing, they are not able to meet the demand in
market and sometimes the organisation have more than required stock which are also out
dated. In order to remove all these barriers and achieve the aims of business in coming time it
is required by organisation and management to take certain steps and acquire certain
resources. Below mentioned are the resources that will be required by business:
Human Resource: Human resource is an important factor in every organisation that is
helping businesses to achieve all their aims and objectives. It is often seen that businesses
have to acquire huge amount of human resource which can successfully serve the purpose of
business. Along with the achievement of goal and attainment of human resources it is also
required by the organisation to make sure that the current employees are trained well in order
to meet the objectives they are to serve (Yapiyev and et. al., 2017). The human resource
department requires to develop a certain recruitment and selection programme that will
successfully help them in employing the people who are fit for the functions in organisation.
The sales persons along with workforce in factory for producing Organic T-shirts are major
human resources that is required by the organisation.
Financial resources: In order to make sure that all the objectives formulated above
are met it necessary for business to make sure that they are having enough financial resources
available. The financial resources will be required by Winston's of York to make sure that
they can continue with recruitment selection, training and development, management of stock
and so on. There are a number of options available with business in order to carry out the
requirement of financial resources. They can either use their personal savings or draw a bank
loan which will help them to meet the financial requirements.
Budgeting: There are a number of factors on which the organisation is required to
focus so that they can effectively manage the objectives that are formulated for business.
Below mentioned is a budget plan for Winston's of York:

Purpose Amount(in
pound)
Recruitment and Selection 2000
Training and Development 3500
Incentives and Motivators 1000
Raw materials 2000
Operational spending 3500
Total 12000
Below mentioned is expected cash floe of the organisation for next 12 months:
Particulars Jan Feb Mar Apr
Cash inflows
Investment 8000
Credit sales 1200 2000 7500 3000
Total inflows 9200 2000 7500 3000
Cash outflows
Fixed : Equipment’s 2500 1200 1500 2500
Variable : Direct material 350 300 250 150
Total outflows 2850 1500 1750 2650
Net cash flow 6350 500 5750 350
Opening balance 0 6350 5850 11600
closing balance 6350 5850 11600 11950
May June July August September October November December
5000 6500 1200 3200 1500 8200 1250 3210

5000 6500 1200 3200 1500 8200 1250 3210
1100 1500 1200 600 500 500 1200 700
100 500 500 250 450 250 1300 500
1200 2000 1700 850 950 750 2500 1200
3800 4500 -500 2350 550 7450 -1250 2010
11950 15750 20250 19750 22100 22650 30100 28850
15750 20250 19750 22100 22650 30100 28850 30860
Monitor and Control
It is an important factor which will be used by the managers in Winston's of York in
order to make sure that the plan formulated by them is successfully working and all teh goals
and objectives are achieed. They are also required to work upon necessary measures for
controlling different threats that are coming their way in future.
Evaluate and Appraise the use of resources against the organisational plan
It is evaluated that there are a number of resources that will be required by Winston's
of York in order to make sure that they are successfully dealing with all the objectives they
need to meet in coming time which will help in enhancing productivity of the business.
Below mentioned is a description of all such resources for organisation and ways in which
they will support the business plan:
Sales person: It is necessary for organisation to hire effective sales person that are
trained to provide services to consumers in store (Brown and et. al., 2017). It is required by
them to hire people who can successfully communicate with the consumers and promote the
offerings of the organisation.
Raw materials: In order to meet the requirements and demand in the market it is
necessary that there is enough raw material present with the business while they are
producing the t-shirts. Therefore, requirement of organic cotton is one of the major resources
required by Winston's of York.
Resources for training and development schedule: The organisation also require a
number of resources in order to make sure that they are successfully developing a training
and development program for their employees. The training and development plan requires a
trainer and mentor, various articles, digital platform, classroom for offline training and so on.
All these resources are to be managed well in the organisation.

Machineries for production: It is one of the important operational resource that will
help business to deal with the demand in market. In order to manage the stock in market and
provide the customers with equipments that are required for production of various products
sold in the organisation.
Financial resources:There are a number of different ways in which financial
resources re required by business. They will require finance to carry out each and every
function in the business. In order to attain the finance that is required by business the owners
are taking 40% from their personal savings and 60% from a bank as loan. Bank loan is an
effective way which will provide the organisation with required funds so that they can
successfully fulfil all the required needs and objectives of business.
Plans to ensure optimum use of resources and remedial plans when required
There are certain goals and objectives which are fulfilled by different resources that
will be required by Winston's of York (Azeez 2017). It is the duty of managers of different
departments in the organisation to make sure that they are successfully measuring the
objectives met by these resources and ways in which they are attaining these objectives.
Below mentioned are some of the ways in which organisation can make sure that they are
taking effective use of all these resources and taking remedial actions whenever required:
 It is necessary that the managers in Winston's of York are continuously matching their
proceeding with the budget the have created at the beginning. It will help them to
realise the amount they have spent on the development plan and the amount left with
them. If any diversion in plan on financial criteria is seen the manager is required to
arrange for more finance or cut down the expenses.
 In order to make sure that the training and development plan is actually helping the
skills and experience of employees the human resource managers are continuously
developing performance management plan. They will successfully evaluate
performance of all the employees in organisation so that their performance can be
matched with the required performance of employees in the business. They are also
continuously motivating and encouraging employees which is a great way to through
which managers can achieve required results from the employees.
 In order to manage all the equipments and tools in the organisation managers need to
make sure that maintenance of these equipment are taking place from time to time.
The productivity of tools are to be measured. If any decline in productivity is seen it is

necessary that the tools are managed and repaired so that the organisations
productivity and profitability can be enhanced.
 Managing of raw materials in the organisation is also necessary. The Economic order
quantity is to be calculated by manager based in which the raw materials are to be
ordered. After the raw materials are stored it is the duty of managers to focus on
proper storage and maintenance of quality of raw material (Abner and et. al., 2017).
The managers are required to keep a track of all the suppliers who can successfully
provide them with these raw materials whenever required. Maintaining relationship
with suppliers will help the managers to deal with any unwanted situation arising
while they are managing raw materials.
With the help of above mentioned measures organisation can successfully deal with
the management of all the resources successfully. The remedial actions will help managers to
ensure that they are prepared to deal with any unwanted circumstances arising in their way
while they are dealing with resource management in Winston's of York.
CONCLUSION
With the help of the following report it can be concluded that resource management
is effective way in which all the organisations can meet their objectives in market place. It is
often seen that organisations fail to manage various resources available with them due to
which they are facing issues. Human resource management is an important aspect in business
as there are a number of important functions to be carried on by human resources. The report
is successfully describing ways in which business can enhance their performance and also
improve their productivity by working on various resources available to them in the
organisation. Organisations also require to draw a budget according to their objectives which
will help them to deal with requirements for business.

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