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Running Head: LEADERSHIP IN WOOLWORTHS    1
LEADERSHIP IN WOOLWORTHS         14
LEADERSHIP PRACTICES AND ASSOCIATED ISSUES WITHIN WOOLWORTHS
Table of Contents
Introduction    3
Background of the Woolworths    3
Leadership Practices and Its Implication within Woolworths    4
Challenging the Process    4
Sharing Organisational Vision    5
Designing the Way of Work    6
Motivating Employees to Move New Opportunities    6
Enabling Others to Act    7
Providing Opportunities for Unconventional Talent    8
Searching for a New Source of Talent    9
Constructing and Maintaining Good Relationship with Employees    9
Recommendations for Better Application of Leadership Theories    10
Conclusion    11
References    13
Introduction
    This report addresses a short
ief description of Woolworths and its leadership practices. In the first session of the report, a short
ief description of Woolworth’s has been described to support the discussion. However, the second session of the report has focused on different types of leadership practices that align with the organisational goal of the company. At the same time, the implication strategy of leadership practices within the organisation has also been included as the discussion of this report. Apart from this, the next session of the report shed light on the recommendation section that used to suggest valuable suggestions to develop leadership practices and reach to the mitigation level of the organisation.
Background of the Woolworths
    Woolworths has been recognised as the reputed retail-based organisation in Australia. However, it is regarded as the grocery and supermarket chain in Australia. Woolworth’s group found it in 1924. In the present context, the organisation has occupied nearly 80% of the market share in the Australian market (Parkinson, 2018). However, the organisation has dealt its business with fresh vegetables, milk, fruits and milk-oriented products and packaged food. On the other hand, it has also expanded its business with health products, beauty products, baby and pet suppliers, magazines and household goods.
It has been found that Woolworths group has succeeded to establish more than 900
anches in Australia and near 43 convenience stores in a metropolitan city. The organisation has provided online purchasing facilities to their customers. The headquarters of the organisation is located in New South Wales in Australia. Near 100,000 employees are associated with the productivity of this organisation.
On the other hand, the annual revenue of the organisation has been audited by AUD 39.568billion that executes the success of the organisation (Govender, 2017). The CEO of the Woolworths group is Brad Banducci and the managing director of the organisation is Claire Peters, who leads the organisation.
Leadership Practices and Its Implication within Woolworths
    The success of the Woolworths group has based on the leadership practices they address in their organisation. Leaders of the organisation have focused on the implication of several practices that they can easily access the operational activities of the organisation. However, the leaders of the Woolworths group have found to have an approach to the transactional leadership in their organisation. It helps them to motivate their employees towards the productivity of the organisation. There are some essential practices, which have been included in their leadership, which are described below.
Challenging the Process
The retail management of Woolworth’s group has found to have the qualification to enhance suitable practices for the employees. However, to develop employee performance the leads of the organisation have paid attention to taking the risk factor of the job. They are found to have faced all types of challenges such as work division, workflow and decision-making procedure and other work relevant issues. On the other hand, the retail manager of the organisation has always been attentive to seek challenging opportunities on behalf of the productivity of the organisation (Ha
is, Jones, Cheah, Devadason & Adams, 2017).
At the same time, retail management has also approached to increase their personal resilience so that they can understand the basic and advanced level of requirements. The retail managers of the Woolworths group have focused on the innovative ideas that they can understand the challenging issues of the organisation such as maintain the work activity and monitor the operations activities of the organisation.
The improvement of organisational productivity is also recognised as the leadership practices that developed by the leaders of the organisation. It helps them to grow the overall performance of the organisation. At the same time, leaders of the organisation have focused on the experimental risk and they encourage employees building up suitable working culture in the supermarket.
Sharing Organisational Vision
The leaders of the Woolworths group have focused to share the organisational vision with their employees. It has helped them to understand the core business value of the organisation among their employees. The retail managers of the organisation have focused on the creation of an organisational vision that helps them to uplift the future opportunity on behalf of the productivity of the organisation (Olins, 2017). The retail managers encourage their employees to increase their performance so that they can provide quality services to their customers.
On the other hand, the management of the organisation has also encouraged employees to personalise the organisational vision and align the vision. Enlist other staff to the core value of the business that they can willingly approach to their growing performance. It helps leaders to provide quality assessment for the productivity of the organisation....