Change Management and Leadership

This article explores the relationship between change management and leadership. It discusses the importance of effective leadership in managing change and maintaining organizational culture. The article also reviews various articles on the topic.

Change Management
and Leadership

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................3
Table of review............................................................................................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
References........................................................................................................................................7

Introduction
Change management is the process where a company regularly changes their process of
doing work in context of both internal and external environment. There are many reasons for
change management like ineffective production of company, ineffective performance from
employees and many others. Most effective success factor for effective change management is
effective communication. On the other hand leadership is the process of influencing a large
number of groups to achieve a common goal (Belias and Koustelios, 2014). The person who
influences others and performs leadership activities is called leader. Leaders are the main reason
of change management within an organisation. It implement as both positive as well as negative.
For positive reason, leaders change cultural environment and performance of their employees for
organisational betterment. Sometimes they change whole system and the way of doing work. On
the other hand for negative aspect, hiring a bad leader for organisation will impact upon
performance of employees which will be degraded and overall culture of organisation will be
spoiled (Goestjahjanti and et. al., 2020). The following report covers summary review in a
tabular form which covers theme of article, citation and comment on that article. In simple words
this report covers review of articles on the topic of change management and leadership.
Main Body
Table of review
Theme Citation Comment
Leadership in change
management
Ugur Zel (2016) This article states that change management will be positive
as well as negative for an organisation. It further describe
that how a manager can handle change management in both
situation of positive effect of change management as well as
negative effect of change management. The article suggests
that behaviour of leaders plays a major role in change
management. Hence, managers must have positive
behaviour and the plans and strategies which are
implemented by leader must be checked on time basis.

The importance of
transformational
leadership model in
managing organisational
culture
Salsabiila Astari Putri
(2020)
This article states the meaning and characteristics of a
successful leader and leadership style and behaviour for
effect management of change (Hall and Battaglio, 2020).
The article also states that change management is common
in today’s era but the most important thing to focus is that
how a manager can control or manage the change in
organisation to achieve organisational goal. This article
describes transformational leadership and its impact upon
change management. It states that managing organisational
culture with transformational leadership model is effective
in most of the companies (Putri, Mirzania and Hartanto,
2020).
Change management
process and leadership
styles
Akintola Akinbode
(2018)
This article suggests that both leaders and well as
employees have to be skilled and educated to understand the
effect of change management. It is compulsory for a leader
to have higher education to enhance their ideas and skill to
develop a good strategy for change management.
Inefficiency of a leadership style is only due to
irresponsibility and illiteracy of a leader (Alqatawenh,
2018).
The impact of leadership
and change management
strategy on organisational
culture.
Dimitrios Bekias and
Athanasios Koustelios
(2014)
This paper helps to identify the impact of change
management and leadership on culture of an organisation.
This study states the process of maintaining good culture
while performing change management. The process is plan
for a change management strategy, taking suggestions from
employees for the same, implement the plan, monitor the
changes in organisational change, in case everything is good
then continue the strategy otherwise change the change
management strategy as soon as possible while noticing any
negative effect of change management (Sethuraman and
Suresh, 2014).
Kurt Lewin’s change
model: A critical review
of leadership and
employee involvement in
organisational change.
Syed Talib Hussain
( 2018)
This article describes the theories of change. Effectiveness
of theories of change through which companies are able to
identify their strategies, process and structure. Three
change models like Positive model, research model and
Lewin’s change model specify the organisational culture
stages. (Hussain, and et. al., 2018). Here, leaders frame a

critical framework for managing organisational change in
various step of change management. This study describes
the changes of organisational culture and their measurement
on each stage of change management process.
Formation of strategic
change management
system at an enterprise
Henryk Dzwigol
( 2019)
This study states that leadership is required at every stage
and at every department of a business. It further states the
relationship between leader role and change management.
The study identifies that leaders has the skill to influence a
large group of people at a same time (Dzwigol and et. al.,
2019). Hence, leaders can be used by company to tell their
employees about the benefits of change management in their
organisation.
Change management or
change leadership
Roger Gill (2018) This study tells that organisation should not require
changing their management all the time. In case of
ineffective leadership style, change in management is
useless. This study further states that identifying both
whether the organisation require to change their
management or they are required to change their leadership
style is effective to reach organisational goal by eliminating
obstacles to achieve them (Belogash and Melnichuk, 2018.
This study further states that requirement of organisation
should be fulfilled. In case organisation needs to change
management then change management and in case
organisation require changing leadership then they must
change their leadership style.
Conclusion
From the above information it is clearly concluded that change management means to
change overall management style and system of work within an organisation. On the other hand
leadership is the process of influencing a large number of individuals to achieve a common goal.
Through reviews which are done in above table it is clear that leaders play an important role in
change management. Leaders are can influence their workforce to accept the change and work
accordingly for the benefit of both organisation as well as for employees. Many articles also
states that both are different things, company either require to change their management and they
require changing their leadership style. Sometimes due to inefficient leaders whole management

or organisation has to suffer and managers took wrong decisions. Hence, identifying the
requirement of company should be conducted first activity.
References
Books and Journals
Alqatawenh, A.S., 2018. Transformational leadership style and its relationship with change
management. Verslas: teorija ir praktika. 19(1). pp.17-24.
Belias, D. and Koustelios, A., 2014. The impact of leadership and change management strategy
on organizational culture. European Scientific Journal. 10(7).
Belogash, M. and Melnichuk, M., 2018. Leadership change in change leadership. In Leadership
for the future sustainable development of business and education (pp. 79-87). Springer,
Cham.
Caulfield, J.L. and Brenner, E.F., 2020. Resolving complex community problems: Applying
collective leadership and Kotter's change model to wicked problems within social
system networks. Nonprofit Management and Leadership. 30(3). pp.509-524.
Dzwigol, H. and et. al., 2019. Formation of Strategic Change Management System at an
Enterprise. Academy of Strategic Management Journal. 18. pp.1-8.
Goestjahjanti, S.F. and et. al., 2020. Impact of Talent Management, Authentic Leadership and
Employee Engagement on Job Satisfaction: Evidence From South East Asian
Industries. Journal of Critical Reviews. 7(19). pp.67-88.
Hall, J.L. and Battaglio, R.P., 2020. Crisis of the union: Public management and leadership in an
era of discontent. Public Administration Review. 80(4). pp.529-531.
Hussain, S.T. and et. al., 2018. Kurt Lewin's change model: A critical review of the role of
leadership and employee involvement in organizational change. Journal of Innovation
& Knowledge. 3(3). pp.123-127.
Lam, W. and et. al., 2018. Does proactive personality matter in leadership transitions? Effects of
proactive personality on new leader identification and responses to new leaders and
their change agendas. Academy of Management Journal. 61(1). pp.245-263.
Ponting, S.S.A., 2020. Organizational identity change: impacts on hotel leadership and employee
wellbeing. The Service Industries Journal. 40(1-2). pp.6-26.

Putri, S.A., Mirzania, A. and Hartanto, D., 2020. The importance of a transformational
leadership model in managing organizational culture. Journal of Leadership in
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Sethuraman, K. and Suresh, J., 2014. Effective leadership styles. International Business
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