J Sainsbury Organisation

J Sainsbury Organisation



J Sainsbury Organisation

Introduction

In the past five years, research on leadership and management has evolved as a key area of interest among HRD scholars. With in this area, two strands of scholarships can be discerned: the development of leaders and managers and their behaviors, attitudes and attributes. The former has received much interest from UK scholars, with notable recent UK publications by Lee et al (1996) on Management education in the post communist central European states, Woodall and Winstanley (1998) on strategy and practice of management development, and Lessem (1998) on management development through cultural diversity. Peterson (1997) note that the behavioral studies and its aspects of management and leadership are regularly found in HRD research Journal, for example, issues of managers acting as facilitators of J Sainsbury's learning, leadership styles, behavioral aspects and managers' abilities to create J Sainsbury's visions.

Bryant and his associates (2002) note that the demonstration of an empirical link between individual leader style and the J Sainsbury's climate remains an elusive target.

There has, however, been great deal of research conducted independently on leadership style and J Sainsbury's climate. He also investigated that a fully-articulated model of the relationships between leadership styles and J Sainsbury's culture needs to be devised and tested with quantitative techniques.

Conceptual Framework

Culture and leadership

Culture and leadership is an interesting but difficult field for study. This is because both subjects are complex and multidimensional and little is known about the relationship between these two subjects. Morden (1994) and Hofstede (1993) note that culture interpretation and adaptation are a prerequisite to the comparative understanding of national and international management practice and to the establishment of effective programs of human resource development, and the development of appropriate skills and competencies on which the achievement of J Sainsbury success depends. In order to carry out study, it is imperative to have as framework from which to work and understanding of the subject areas.

The culture also has an impact on the way that J Sainsbury performs as a supermarket by the way that the culture of j Sainsbury is advertised through the advertising campaigns J Sainsbury launches through the media. “Making Life Taste Better” is now a recognised slogan by all the customers of J Sainsbury due to J Sainsbury advertising their culture so that J Sainsbury can express what they are aiming to do for the customers. Some of J Sainsbury's “loyal” customers would probably agree with the slogan that J Sainsbury uses, because customers may believe that j Sainsbury is providing them wit h food products of a high quality, taste delicious and the price is competitive as well.

The staff at J Sainsbury are always more than happy to inform customers about products at a special offer etc, this is helpful to the customer due to them knowing that there's special offers on, and if it interests then they would obviously buy the product. The members of staff also provide an excellent form of customer service by ...