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Change management 1CHANGE MANAGEMENTName:Department:School:Date:
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Change Management 2IntroductionAs a result of tremendous global changes, many companies across the world are striving to restructure their ways of operations in order to counter the competition witnessed in the world of business (Benn, Edwards and Williams 2014, pp. 52). Change can therefore be used as a technique by most organizations aiming at adapting to the new business environments-an aspect that ensures that a company survives in the competitive global market. However, change must bemanaged well in order to bring the desired outcomes. Managing change can only be effective when the whole organization is convinced that adopting the new ways of operating will solve thecurrent problems and offer opportunities for future growth (Brown and Osborne 2012, pp. 105). Therefore change management is essential in persuading the employees and the whole organization that altering the current mode of doing business is important to the organization’s survival and growth in the market (Benn, Edwards and Williams 2014, pp. 50).However, the organization’s management should be keen during the change process to ensure that all issues arising from the implementation course do not lead to the failure of the whole process (Qadri, Hussain and Bin Ahmad Dahlan 2015, pp. 278). These issues can be eitherstructural, cultural or leadership and they can highly affect the entire change process either negatively or positively (Vohs and Baumeister 2016, pp. 502). For instance, cultural issues such as norms, beliefs and values of the organization may hinder the whole process of organizational change. Leadership styles many also hinder the process of change since change process needs a leadership style that is transformational in nature. Structural issues that are brought by change may include change in the chain of command, job structure, management systems and administrative procedures (Gollenia, L.A., 2016, pp. 42).
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Change Management 3Therefore, to deeply analyze these issues and link them to the whole process of change management process within an organization, the essay addresses the problems encountered by Carrefour during its collaboration with MAF. Carrefour is one of the largest retail group not onlyin UAE but also in the world (Carrefour 2018). Therefore, the report thus cover the structural, cultural and leadership issues that were encountered during the change process resulting from thecollaboration between Carrefour and MAP in UAE (Saifur 2013).Organization’s BackgroundCarrefour is a multinational company and it is ranked the second largest retail group globally. Hence, the company has its retail outlets and stores across the whole world. Carrefour began its operations in UAE in the year 1995 during the company’s strategic plan of expanding its operations across the Asian Market (Carrefour 2018). Currently, the company deals with retailservices as well as real estate activities with a total number of eleven (11) retail stores. Change Situation/Change ProcessCarrefour has been striving implement its strategic plan of increasing their market share within the Asian Continent by establishing their operations in all the Asian countries. One of their main target was UAE due to its tremendously growing economy. As a result, the company decided to open a popular hypermarket at Dubai Sports City along Emirates Road in Dubai. However, it is important to understand that doing business in UAE as a foreigner is not easy due to the barriers put by the foreign policy. The policy stipulates that any foreign company hoping to operate in UAE must collaborate with a company from within UAE and the native company must own at least 50% of the shares in the newly formed company.
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Change Management 4Nevertheless, Carrefour needed to do everything possible in order to capture the Asian market and diversify their operation in UAE. Thus, for the purpose of working as per the stipulations of the foreign policy investment, Carrefour decided to collaborate with MAF shopping Mail from Abu Dhabi. MAF is also a well-established and known construction company in UAE (Saifur 2013). Since MAF is a well-known company, Carrefour saw it as the right opportunity of entering into the market since the company has a lot of popularity (Kavoura and Katsoni 2013, pp. 120). The move was meant to fulfill the company’s goal to open and run one of the biggest hypermarket at Dubai Sports City. The collaboration was also meant to expandCarrefour’s market dominance in UAE and increase their market share. That would see the company emerge the best by beating all its competitors and gaining the competitive advantage inthe retail market across UAE (Nof, Ceroni, Jeong and Moghaddam 2015, pp. 35).As a result of the collaboration, a lot of changes were witnessed including change in: human resource activities within the company, the procedures of undertaking some work, the change in job requirements of employees including their roles and responsibilities, change in management, leadership, structure, policies and the company’s atmosphere (Lämmer-Gamp, Köcker and Nerger 2014, pp. 1). These changes are seen to have brought a lot of issues ranging from cultural, structural and leadership issues that must be addressed effectively and carefully forthe purpose of ensuring a successful change. Thus, the collaboration process brought a lot changes as discussed below.Structural Changes As a result of the change witnessed as a result of collaboration between the two companies, there were a lot of changes in the management structure of Carrefour and MAF. The structure of the organization had been changed to match the structure of the two collaborating
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