Understanding and leading change

Understanding and
leading change
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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Task 1...............................................................................................................................................4
P1 Compare different organisational examples where there has been an impact of change on
an organisation’s strategy and operations....................................................................................4
Task 2...............................................................................................................................................4
P2 Evaluation of ways in which external and internal drivers change affect leadership, teams
and individual behavior in an organization.................................................................................4
P3 Evaluate measures that can be adopt to decline impact of change on organizational
behavior.......................................................................................................................................5
Task 3...............................................................................................................................................6
P4 Explanation of various barriers to change an analyze how they impact leadership decision-
making in context to organization...............................................................................................6
Task 4...............................................................................................................................................8
P5 Apply different leadership approaches to dealing with change in organisational context.....8
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
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INTRODUCTION
Change is a constant phenomenon that is ongoing in every business and in the environment
as well. Organizational change is one of the significant factor that directly leads to sustainability
and growth at marketplace. In addition to this, change is important in order to fulfill the demand
and requirements of the target market (Drago-Severson and Blum-DeStefano, 2018). In order to
deal with the change, it is important for every organization to analyze the internal and external
factors that drive change. Without the change, a business entity would struggle to uplift and face
high competition at marketplace. The change within an organization are planned in advance and
is focused on the company because of internal and external factors. Due to the pandemic
COVID-19, there is high changes take place in performing the activities of an organization. Most
of the companies have been forced to perform its operations differently and allow employees to
work from home. This situation also brings a change in the overall function and structure of
companies. In the present report, different organisations is considered in order to describe the
activities. The report will cover two different organizational examples that has been impacted by
the change. In addition to this, there is the evaluation of the ways in which the external and
internal drivers of change impact on the leader behaviour. Moreover, different barriers of change
and how it impacts on decision-making of leaders is elaborated. In the last form a various
leadership approaches is defined that help in dealing with the changes in an effective manner.
Task 1
P1 Compare different organisational examples where there has been an impact of change on an
organisation’s strategy and operations
Tesco is one of multinational retailer and grocer in UK that has been operating in more than
6,500 stores globally. The head office is located in Welwyn Garden City, England and deals
many diversified goods or services such as clothing, financial and telecom services, electronics
and many more. On the other hand, Asda is a British supermarket chain that is headquartered in
Leeds, England. Recently, now they are operating in 631 location and deals in grocery and
financial services. Change is a continuous procedure and is constantly taking place within the
business environment. In addition to this, it is important for an organization to deal with the
changes in a proper manner so that the higher growth and success is achieved (Nelson‐Brantley
and Ford, 2017). Organisation deals with various types of changes that take plays in market and
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environment and impact directly on the functions and performance of business. Change is an
essential and constant phenomena that impact on business strategies, plans, operations and
decision-making. This change have to be identified and analysed by companies so that an
effective strategy is developed to deal with such changes.
For every business organisation, changes comes to be a difficult factor to tackle with any
managers or leaders of various business organisation. It leads to re-analysing of respective
business policies and strategies adopted by management of a business firm and also sometimes
end up completely changing it. Respective management if Asda taken in changes in organisation
as an important term for going with the trend and approaching demand of various market
customers. It leads to wastage of respective resources and valuable efforts being invested in
operational activities of the firm. However on the bright side, managers and leaders respective
organisation takes in changes in a positive manner and treats it as a cost which is payed by firm
in reference to its future growth in a given marketplace. On the other hand, management
department of Tesco, as major operational activities of the firm is based on dealing with grocery
products with quality services to their customers. Due to breakdown of various changes in
business environment of the firm, its operational management has to suffer relating to loss of
invested efforts and valuable resources of the concerned firm. Managers and leaders of business
firm dedicate their attention towards formulation of flexible planning structures of an
organisation, which contributes towards effective development of the firm and also ensures
better market presence with loyal customers of the workforce.
There are different factors which can influence and are responsible for variations that take
place in market and is subsequently impacting the strategies and operations of business. These
factors are technology, political conditions, culture, taste and preferences, economic crisis and
many more. Due to COVID-19, both the companies are affecting and has made changes within
the organizational strategy and structure. In this section, the influence of change on the operation
and strategies is discussed with the help of comparison table among these two organization that
is Tesco and Asda. The table is given below:
BASIS Tesco Asda
Competency based
strategies
When it comes to retail sector
and providing customers
On the other side, Asda is a
supermarket chain and it is
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