Analysis of Leadership and Resource Management at Hot Topic Report

This report provides an executive summary and analysis of leadership and resource management strategies, focusing on the application of ambidexterity within the context of Hot Topic, an American retail chain. The study critically evaluates the theoretical perspectives underpinning the concept of ambidexterity, emphasizing its role in fostering innovation, managing organizational resources, and achieving competitive advantage. The report explores how the implementation of ambidextrous leadership can enhance a company's ability to explore new competencies and exploit existing ones. The analysis includes discussions on the importance of senior management in driving ambidexterity, the resolution of critical organizational issues, and the integration of exploration and exploitation strategies. The report highlights the benefits of ambidexterity in terms of innovation, competitive advantage, and overall organizational performance, including how companies like River Island can adopt these practices to achieve their goals. The conclusion and recommendations are followed by a list of references to support the arguments presented throughout the report.

Leading and Managing
Organisational Resources

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Present theory or concept has been based on Ambidextrous which is distinct creative
approach for the development process of River Island. This company has been taken into action
for conducting the further overall approach. This would help to implement the approach
Ambidextrous to enhance the possibilities of leadership approach. Furthermore, study also
explained the process of innovation and how actual company gain those types of leadership
approaches such as ambidextrous. Further, the executive leadership style has been taken to create
segregated business units for exploring and developing innovation and creative ideas such as
product, services and processes. To keep the exploring and developing breakthrough innovation
process can help company to explore the market opportunities. However, the main aim of the
study was to enhance the importance of Ambidextrous in leadership process that also helps to
coordinate all functional department together to make one single unit. Further, study explained
the concept or the benefits that company gained are also defined. Overall, company have those
types of leaders helps to remove all threats or issue by applying dual innovative tools. Overall,
study based on leadership and managing the business task.

Table of Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.............................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
ANALYSIS .....................................................................................................................................1
Critically evaluated theoretical perspective underpinning the Hot Topic...................................1
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................5
RECOMMENDATION...................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Managing leading sources and effective leadership goals are the most essential elements
within the organisation. Organisation are made up from different types of employees and culture.
With culture and values in place are in a position to develop your central strategy. Present study
will be based on “Hot Topic” it is an American retail chain specializing in counterculture related
clothing and accessories as well as licensed music company. Present report will be based on the
Hot Topic which is organisation Ambidexterity. It is the most important term of central
importance to the competitive advantage of the firm. Further report will be explained the purpose
or the importance of this topic that helps company to solve the different company situation
together. Apart from that, it will also help to clear out the most effective and influencing task to
perform.
However, this Hot topic helps to reduce the pressure within the company environment
and exit into the business growth channel. Overall, study categorize or contribute some resources
or helps to adopt different lining and important particular task performance. Further, study also
present the importance of organisation ambidexterity as a metaphor referring to firm ability to
both explore new competences and exploit existing competences has attached considerable
interest. This process helps to redefine the innovation and creative environment within the
company success. Following report will be explains the new leadership and managing theories
that helps to meet the organisation needs and wants.
ANALYSIS
Critically evaluated theoretical perspective underpinning the Hot Topic
On the basis of author, it has been argued that the word Ambidexterity within the
literature does not reflect the managerial activity (Agostini, Nosella and Filippini, 2016). The
concept of this topic has been taken through different areas of multiple results. In order to
evaluate ambidexterity to address the issues of how organisational resources needed at each
level. In order to address financial, operational or managing leading issues. This term of
ambidexterity helps to resolve all concepts of leading management task of the company. Overall,
it helps to discover the new leading or managing source. That helps to affect the new leading
chargeable effective goals (Bourne, 2016). The concept of ambidexterity describe cultural rather
than structural characteristics, they take a similar focus on structural characteristics. As per the
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suggested author employee cannot perform both activity at same time such as they enable to
conduct exploration and exploitation activities together. The importance of ambidexterity
concept is helps to create ability between employee to explore and exploit. In this present study
employees are the necessary sources of company ambidexterity.
This task relevantly necessary for the leadership, operations, information systems and
finance. This also helps to define the necessary concept of leading best sources growth. Such as
River Island retailer of women adopts this term of organisation ambidexterity in order to full fill
the best leading concept of managing leadership power (Coccia, 2016). In order to build up the
concept and logistic performance that affect the leading source full. Overall, study uses
contextual ambidexterity which helps to describe cultural factor rather than structural
characteristics the focus of this study helps to focus on the leading managing task. That affect the
best possible action plan for the focus on the focus of the leading resourceful goals. This overall,
concept helps to be implemented with the help some organisational theory which is overall based
on leadership, operational etc (Del Giudice and et.al., 2017). this also helps to describe the best
effective leading resourceful goals.
Roots of organisational ambidexterity argue that the ability of a firm to be ambidexterity
is at the core or dynamic approach of company capabilities. Ambidexterity basically require
senior manager to accomplish the two critical tasks. Method which is presenting the best leading
resourceful ideological task performance. Overall, it helps to accomplish the company leadership
goals and other issues. Senior management can be the person who implement the capabilities of
ambidexterity (Doppelt, 2017). Such as firstly, they analyse the market changes in their
competitive environment, including potential shifts in technology, competition, customers and
regulations. Besides, second thing is manager should need to act of these opportunities or threats
in order to fix them by reconfiguring both tangible and intangible assets to meet all the company
issues and threats. Overall, it helps to engage with the leading goals in order to meet that certain
performing task. As per the dynamic sources or facts they lead to be the most essential part
within the accomplishment of company certain issues. Some problems which has been resolved
with the help of ambidexterity (Egelhoff and Wolf, 2017). Such as Make or Buy (Scares
Resources) under which company is enough capable to produce three different products with
three different types of labour sources or material as well. In order to solve that issue, manager
can also need to considered other task as well such as to coordinate with quality assurance,
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reliability, lost skills and also transaction costs of ownership. Ambidexterity this term also helps
to solve two different critical situations into more prominent task. Overall, it helps to decline the
managing prosperous goals and best effective process goals. Organisation can develop by
different culture or goals (Jabbour and et.al., 2015). The argument presented above that can be
summarized in three explore process. First, integration and differentiation and complimentary are
complementary not alternative.
Overall, this concept based on best the innovation and creativity through which company
can easily implement the overall system goals and best leading target market performance.
Exploration and require substantially different structure and processes strategies and capabilities.
Besides, also makes the good performing efforts and target goals that helps to connect company
aims with the objectives (Langfield-Smith and et.al., 2017). In today's competitive environment
company facing different challenges and issues regarding operational, functional or leading.
With the help of term Ambidexterity helps to remove the longer term of fact. Ambidexterity
reflects the managerial activity, innovation, technology or learning process that they define
leadership goals and term to accomplish the task. Innovative management or technology helps to
define the best leading performing task process (Maier, 2015).
There are some generic mechanism for achieving ambidexterity such as temporal,
structural and contextual Ambidexterity. These are the high level implementation approaches of
Ambidexterity. That has been discussed in this present study goals. Overall, it helps to define the
better management productivity task that helps to affect the long lasting goals and better
objective performances. River Island and Home office can easily implement better productive
task and goal oriented process in order to build up the new generative source for the betterment
of company performance (Mayo, 2016). Ambidexterity is the ability to both use and refine
existing knowledge while also creating new thought process and knowledge building task in
order to execute of the work performance.
Present research will be categorizing into the themes representing the level. That affect
the best performing ideas and goals. In order to full fill the managing task full method which
affect the long lasting goals and gives both effective task effectiveness (Mount and Acur, 2015).
River Island and Home office both can develop the integrating process company has adopted
trait theory and great man theory of leadership to implement the proper effective changes within
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the legal system. The main purpose of this study is to define the importance of term that could
company can adopt better competitive advantage to make sure the better connectivity and goal.
Ability to using both hand at same time helps to reflect the efficient level in the business
environment (Omotayo, 2015). Being Ambidextrous means his/her can able to use both the left
and right hand equally, organisational Ambidexterity requires company to use both exploration
and exploitation technique in order to ensure the organisation aims and objectives. Those types
of leader help in leading OB behaviour, take leadership growth. They perform different functions
to get success level.
In present term where and long lasting fact and affect the best leading resourceful and
long lasting form of fact. This also affect the best leading resourceful. In order to full-fill the best
resourceful goal. This is the two factor and logical performing task in order to build up the new
leading source full ideological method. Apart from that, this model of integration can also
helpful for the company to implement new different market approaches. Ambidexterity cans
helpful to implement new opportunities and goals that helps top discover the new functional
level of performance (Renz, 2016). This helps in foster innovation process innovation within the
context of a large maturation process. This would help to define the leading, this would help to re
control the major and major goal performance task and major objective task performance.
Maintaining the proper effective work process and make the process building process.
This term of Ambidextrous leadership helps company in problem solving within the company
structure. Overall, it helps to control the long lasting performing goals and make the good
objective performance (Sinha, 2016). This approach has more focused on trying to explain the
problem of organisation Ambidextrous.
Innovations
The ability to develop new idea for new products has become a priority for many
organisations. Innovation or new creativity thought process become the greatest tool or source to
gain competitive environment. Innovation is the process that creating new ideas by a firm.
Ambidextrous is one of that innovative tool to identify the new process in the company. This
helps organisation to reduce the issues and challenges between employees (Swanwick and
McKimm, 2017). This concept of Ambidextrous can help to take the name the longest goals
process. The main purpose of Ambidextrous concept is to create a dynamic capability which can
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be found a combination of two different strategies grounds such as exploration and exploitation.
Exploring new ideas and goals helps to improve the existing knowledge base of the firm.
Competitive advantageous
Competitive advantage is in the centre of firm performance in competitive markets. After
several decades of expansion and prosperity and many companies have lost sight of completive
advantage in their struggle for economic growth concern for diversification (Wehrmeyer, 2017).
Competitive advantage helps to give different new creative changes that helps to make profit
revenue sources for the company development (Langfield-Smith and et.al., 2017). Besides, with
the help of inherent characteristics is most industries is the change in competitors profitability.
The firm superiors goals and best approachable target performances to achieve that profitable
work effectiveness.
Ambidextrous also change the structure of company and give lead to all functional
departments to work together in order to ensure the productive working goals. It is a kind of
distinct creative approach that have their own unique processes, structure and culture. In order to
full fill the target goals. In order to full fill the task level in order to build up the long lasting
behavioural goals. Apart from that, it helps to discover the long lasting goals to make the better
performance goals for the company level (Maier, 2015). Ambidextrous have their own unique
process or structures and cultures that are specifically intended to support early stage innovation.
This would help to lead or other functional department of River Island and the Home Office.
These concepts or strategies can also comprised of one or more innovation teams, reside within
the larger parent organisation but have been set up to unique approaches. Overall, it helps to give
the long lasting performing goals to achieve the target function in appropriate manner (Mount
and Acur, 2015).
CONCLUSION
On the basis of above section, it has been concluded that Ambidextrous is the hot topic to
identify the major goals oriented process that helps to create nee leadership performance goals.
Present study accomplished the aims and objectives of this present file is to generate new leading
target performance. Apart from that, it helps to continue the development process to create new
leadership approachable. Present study explained the purpose or advantage of Ambidextrous
into the business performance activities. Along with that, it apart from given new development
goals. Further, this study also explained the process of theories and goals. Overall, it gives the
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major goal effective process leading source full manageable growth for the company. Overall,
purposeful growth of the company helps to take care of the development process. Present study
has been taken River Island and Home Office. That could have this creative or distinct leadership
style within company environment. Present helps to reduce the limitations or issues of company.
Ambidextrous this distinct kind of approach helps company to increase the coordination among
employees. It helped to in cross communication process. These are the important factors that
explained in the above study.
RECOMMENDATION
Ambidextrous organisation can help in the improvement between leadership qualities,
employee engagement and motivation process. This study helps to define the long term
productive approach to make goals more effective and purposeful goal targets. Ambidextrous
organisation can help to reduce cost, time scale and resources who is important for the company
organisation. Ambidextrous enable to connect different approaches at same time of
implementation. Company needs to adopt this leadership idea to make communication or
stability level stronger and productive in nature. Apart from that, company needs to focus on the
development goals that helps to control the long term process of emerging task. Moreover, the
following task has been explained the long lasting goals and make the good impact on the overall
development process. Leadership styles and approaches helps to redefine the approaches and
development task of the process that helps to affect the effective work process goals. This
systematic review has shown that Ambidextrous is emerging as an important area of scholarly
theory is emerging investigation. Overall, this target also helps to contain the long term goals
and major objectivity performance area. The role and interaction and long lasting performing
goals. Helps to sustain the leading performing goals. Moreover, it has been concluded that
company should acquire Ambidextrous into their work practices enabling the company
objectives to be accomplished. It helps to implement different leadership and development styles
to create new forming growth. Overall, it helps to continue the long term goals and leading
resourceful ideological matter.
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