Marks And Spencer Leadership Analysis
I. Introduction
Yukl (2006) defined that leadership is the process of influencing other people in order to agree and understand what needs to be done and how to do it and the process of facilitating individuals and collecting efforts to complete the targeted objectives. It means leadership is the transactional event between the leaders and followers. It is two-way effects in which leaders and followers will both positively and negatively affect together. Northouse (2010) also determined that leadership is the process in which an individual influence a group of individuals. The main job of leader is to create the system and organization that satisfies the needs of manager as well as evaluating and adjusting this system to take advantage of new opportunities.
In this paper, the main focus is to evaluate the contextual challenges and opportunities to the strategic leadership of Marks and Spencer in the global competition. In addition, the comparison to H&M, Zara, Topshop and Uniqlo about the organization leadership will be mentioned. Fashion industry has been crowded by many big brand names and Marks and Spencer has struggled to maintain its leading position. Therefore, it is necessary to find out the most appropriate organization leadership to ensure companies can create the competitive advantages. The analysis will be …show more content…
The report on April 2015 showed that Mark and Spencer shares hit the seven-year high when the clothing sales had increased again (Telegraph, 2015). The general merchandise grew up 0.7 per cent and it was the first time during four years the general merchandise sales increased. The business can be divided into two main division including food which accounted for 53 percent of turnover and General Merchandise (43 per cent of turnover). Currently, Marks and Spencer is world leader in women wear, lingerie and
Yukl (2006) defined that leadership is the process of influencing other people in order to agree and understand what needs to be done and how to do it and the process of facilitating individuals and collecting efforts to complete the targeted objectives. It means leadership is the transactional event between the leaders and followers. It is two-way effects in which leaders and followers will both positively and negatively affect together. Northouse (2010) also determined that leadership is the process in which an individual influence a group of individuals. The main job of leader is to create the system and organization that satisfies the needs of manager as well as evaluating and adjusting this system to take advantage of new opportunities.
In this paper, the main focus is to evaluate the contextual challenges and opportunities to the strategic leadership of Marks and Spencer in the global competition. In addition, the comparison to H&M, Zara, Topshop and Uniqlo about the organization leadership will be mentioned. Fashion industry has been crowded by many big brand names and Marks and Spencer has struggled to maintain its leading position. Therefore, it is necessary to find out the most appropriate organization leadership to ensure companies can create the competitive advantages. The analysis will be …show more content…
The report on April 2015 showed that Mark and Spencer shares hit the seven-year high when the clothing sales had increased again (Telegraph, 2015). The general merchandise grew up 0.7 per cent and it was the first time during four years the general merchandise sales increased. The business can be divided into two main division including food which accounted for 53 percent of turnover and General Merchandise (43 per cent of turnover). Currently, Marks and Spencer is world leader in women wear, lingerie and