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Leadership and Change Management2Table of ContentsIntroduction................................................................................................................................4Background of Alibaba..............................................................................................................4Type of Company and Industry..............................................................................................4Industry Dynamics.................................................................................................................5Leadership Models and Theories...........................................................................................5Situation Theory.................................................................................................................5Contingency Theory...........................................................................................................6Behavioural Theory............................................................................................................6Participative Theory...........................................................................................................6McGregor Theory of Leadership.......................................................................................6Leadership Model Suiting the Industry..................................................................................7Evaluation of the Leadership Style of Jack Ma.........................................................................7Background of Jack Ma.........................................................................................................7Evaluation of Jack Ma............................................................................................................8Skills...................................................................................................................................8Traits..................................................................................................................................8Behaviour...........................................................................................................................8Personality..........................................................................................................................8Ethics..................................................................................................................................9Motivations........................................................................................................................9Leadership Styles...............................................................................................................9Power Types.......................................................................................................................9Method of Communication................................................................................................9Gap Analysis..............................................................................................................................9Development of Leadership Improvement Plan......................................................................10

Leadership and Change Management3Reasons to Change...............................................................................................................10Lewin’s Model for Change..................................................................................................11Unfreeze...........................................................................................................................11Freeze...............................................................................................................................11Refreeze............................................................................................................................11Anticipated Barriers to the Change Process.............................................................................11Conclusions..............................................................................................................................11Importance of Leadership for generating Success...............................................................11Difference between Manager and Leader............................................................................12References................................................................................................................................13

Leadership and Change Management4IntroductionThe report focuses on generating an overview of the online commerce company, Alibaba. Itreflects on the industry to which Alibaba belongs to while conducting the analysis ofleadership style both of the founder of the firm and the industry as a whole. Further, thereport also focuses on conducting a gap analysis of the leadership style of Alibaba’s founderbased on leadership theories. The report also focuses on the development of a leadershipdevelopment plan through the use of Kurt Lewin’s Change Model while also reflecting on thebarriers to the change process. Different types of theoretical models would be incorporated inthe report for effectively analysing the leadership style of the online commerce industry andalso that of the founder of the organisation. The report would focus on conducting aneffective empirical analysis through the study of online articles, books and journals forgaining needed inferences to the topic. Background of AlibabaType of Company and IndustryAlibaba Group based in China focuses on transforming the marketing, selling and operationalprocedures of business institutions. It works in providing the right quality of technologicalinfrastructure and marketing network for helping companies effectively engage with the finalusers or customers. Alibaba’s business constituted by elements like core commercialactivities, digital media and cloud computing functions and also entertainment and innovationhelps the business organisations for effectively teaming with logistics and other serviceprovider firms for rendering services to other brands and merchant firms[ CITATION Ali17 \l 1033 ].

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