Strategic Capabilities, Corporate Strategies, and HR Support: Victoria

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of Victoria Supermarket's organizational capabilities, focusing on leadership performance, strategic unity, and innovation. It examines the corresponding corporate strategies employed by the company, emphasizing the importance of resource allocation, organizational design, and portfolio management. The report delves into the crucial role of Human Resources (HR) in supporting these capabilities and strategies, highlighting how HR professionals can drive business results, reduce costs, and improve employee engagement. The conclusion emphasizes the significance of strategic alignment between organizational capabilities, corporate strategies, and HR practices for overall success. The report also provides a detailed understanding of the role of HR managers in supporting the objectives of the company by providing qualified individuals to carry out the operations effectively. References to relevant books and journals are included.

Organization
Capabilities

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Organizations strategic capabilities........................................................................................1
Corresponding corporate strategies........................................................................................2
Discuss HR’s role in supporting the capabilities and strategies.............................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
Books and Journals.................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Organisational capabilities intangible, strategic assets that helps a company to carry on the
work, execute the business strategies and satisfy the needs and wants of customers in effective
manner. It is necessary for every company to work on their capabilities so that they are able to
attain the goals and objectives effectively (Chan & Muthuveloo, (2020)). Human Resource of
company plays a major role in managing the organisational strategic capabilities and forming the
strategies accordingly. This report is based on Victoria Supermarket. The company was
established in 2019 and has its headquarters in Canada (About Victoria Supermarket, 2022). The
strategic capabilities of the organisation are being examined in this report. The corporate
strategies are also mentioned so that the company is able to work according to their strategic
capabilities. The role of HR in supporting the strategies and capabilities is important part of this
report.
MAIN BODY
Organizations strategic capabilities
Strategic capability is the capability of the business enterprise to use all its skills, resources
and capabilities in effective manner to gain competitive lead. It helps the company to create its
value over time and survive in the market effectively. The various strategic capabilities of
Victoria Supermarket are as follows:
Leadership performance: The leader of Victoria Supermarket works effectively and analyse the
situation of their employees. They regularly interact with the employees and provide them
training to manage the working (Srour, Shefer, & Carmeli, A (2022). It is necessary to provide
proper direction to the employees so that they are able to manage the working. The leader of
Victoria Supermarket follows democratic style that helps them to attain the organisational goals
and objectives effectively. This is necessary for enhances performance of their employees and
carrying the work in appropriate manner. The employees are involved in decision making that
assists in taking best decisions for the company and they are creative in nature( Urrutia-Badillo,
Lopez-Cabrales & Cabrera (2018).
Strategic unity: The company works continuously to formulate their strategies and
implement them in effective manner. The role of employees is being recognised by the
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organisation in order to support the strategy. In Victoria Supermarket the employees are heard so
that there is better decision making being done.
Innovation: There is need of delivering new products and services on regular basis so that
the customers are satisfied. It becomes important for Victoria Supermarket to manage the
working effectively and provide better services to the customers. They add new ideas to sell their
products and services so that customers are able to manage their working (Dosi and et.al, (2018).
Corresponding corporate strategies
In context to organizations, the corporate strategy is basically a long-term plan that helps in
outlining the company and its clear goals and objectives. There might be situations when the goal
or objective could be different but eventually the main objective of the corporate strategy is to
improve the company’s operations. In case of a organization’s corporate strategy, it may be to
focus on leadership, sales and growth. In Context to Victoria Supermarket, it is very important
for the managers to consider that in which manner the competitive advantage has been gained
within the company's business line where it operates but also also the business should take place
on the priority basis. It generally comprises of divestment decisions and investment decisions
which are usually made by the top level managers. In relation to corporate strategy, Mergers and
Acquisitions are considered to be a very important part. Such type of master plan is important
when the company works in more than two areas of business by the dissimilar units of business
with dissimilar level of strategies of business(Reegård, Drøivoldsmo & Farbrot(2020, July). In
context to Components, there are various corporate strategy components where leader of the
organisation have to focus upon. The key corporate strategy tasks involve the following:
Resources Allocation : In context to organization, a firm should focus on main factors capital
and people. For the purpose to maximize the value of the company, it is important that the
leaders have to find out that in which manner to allocate the resources to the different units of
business.
Organizational Design: It basically involves ensuring the organization has the necessary related
systems and corporate structure in place for the purpose to create the maximum amount of value.
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The important key factors in organizational design involve head office and organizational
structure (Saunila, Ukko & Rantala (2021).
Portfolio Management: In reference to the organization, portfolio management basically looks
at the way business units complement each other. It generally comprises of monitoring the
competitive landscape, creating strategic options through seeding new opportunities and
managing risk through diversification (Annunziata, Pucci, Frey & Zanni(2018).
In reference to companies, strategy of corporate is very different from the strategy of
business which has focus towards the how to return and manage across the organisation. For
leaders it is very important for the leaders to be responsible for strategic decision making
considering the factors such as portfolio management, allocation of resources, strategic tradeoffs
and organizational design.
Discuss HR’s role in supporting the capabilities and strategies.
Strategic HRM gives a framework for development practices and link of people management for
long term outcomes and goals. It has focus towards the resources issues of long term nature in
terms of organisational goals and the nature of work which has been involved.
HR can easily drive business results and lead an organization. When it comes to HR, one
of the most important methods to support the business objectives is by ensuring and assessing
that the employees are ready for the change and growth. With reference to Victoria Supermarket,
the HR leaders plays a very significant role by values of modelling of organization in their own
behaviour or actions. The talent and people needs of the strategy of organisation are basically
possessed by the business leaders and managers but the professionals of HR could stablish the
requirements of people and also make sure that the company is mainly established for purpose of
executing those needs. When it comes to supporting the strategies and capabilities, HR plays a
very significant role in the organizations.
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Whenever there is a business initiative and major change, Human resource plays a very
important role in management of change. For instance, the organization is planning to introduce
new software, the HR can play a great role in providing insights into how well the new program
will be received.
Reduce Costs: In context to HR professionals, they can provide intuition that in which manner
to reduce the cost of work force management and also identifies the savings opportunities. With
the support of these analytics, it can help the company in maximizing the influence of their
investment.
Engaging and Monitoring: In reference to companies, they are quickly realizing the need to
improve employee engagement across the globe. HR managers play a very important role in
critically aligning the employee training with the company’s objectives to create effective
business strategies. HR leaders could lead to the company for the purpose to achieve success.
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CONCLUSION
From the above report, it can be concluded that human resource plays a very important
role in manage the overall working of the company. In addition to that it is very important for the
HR managers to implement the right type of strategies and organizational capabilities in order to
achieve success. Furthermore, it helps in brief understanding about the importance of strategies
and organizational capabilities and how HR plays a important role in analysing these capabilities.
Moreover, the above report helps in analysing companies capabilities and how these contributes
towards the overall success of the company. In addition to that, it helps in gaining a better
understanding about the role of HR in implementing the strategies in a successful way. Also it
helps in understanding how the organizational capabilities and corresponding capabilities play a
effective role. The above report not only helps in understanding the significance of HR manager
but also helps in better knowledge about how they support the objectives of the company by the
providing qualified Individuals in order to carry out the operations of the company in a effective
manner. Without the role of HR, it is impossible to design the strategies for organization into
effective and efficient manner. It has been observed at the organizational level, it is important to
design strategies in such a manner that it fulfil the requirements of corporate level.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Annunziata, E., Pucci, T., Frey, M., & Zanni, L. (2018). The role of organizational capabilities in
attaining corporate sustainability practices and economic performance: Evidence from
Italian wine industry. Journal of cleaner production, 171, 1300-1311.
Dosi, G., Faillo, M., Manara, V. C., Marengo, L., & Moschella, D. (2018). The Formalization of
Organizational Capabilities and Learning: Results and Challenges. In The Oxford
Handbook of Dynamic Capabilities (pp. 1-29). Oxford University Press.
Kumar, D., Teja, V. S., Manoram, R. B., Shrama, P., Yadav, K. D., & Rajamurugan, T. V.
Implementation of BIM to Improve Organizational Capabilities.
Reegård, K., Drøivoldsmo, A., & Farbrot, J. E. (2020, July). Defining organizational capabilities
in an electric power distribution grid operator to meet future demands. In International
Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (pp. 462-469). Springer, Cham.
Saunila, M., Ukko, J., & Rantala, T. (2021). Building Sustainable Innovation Through Changes
in Employee Behavior and Organizational Capabilities. In Frugal Innovation and Its
Implementation (pp. 233-245). Springer, Cham.
Srour, Y., Shefer, N., & Carmeli, A. (2022). Positive Chair-CEO work relationships: Micro-
relational foundations of organizational capabilities. Long Range Planning, 55(3), 102124.
Urrutia-Badillo, Y., Lopez-Cabrales, A., & Cabrera, R. V. (2018). A multidimensional approach
to the content of human capital: Dimensions, emergence process and organizational
capabilities. Management Research: Journal of the Iberoamerican Academy of
Management.
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