Leading Change and Creativity in Organizations

Leading Change and
Creativity in
Organisations

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
RERFRENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Leading change and creativity within organization is essential to compete with the rivals
across marketplace. It is the clear commitment and ownership within the company, concentrating
on prioritized set of the changes, rendering sufficient resource for executing, clear accountability,
long term planning, continuous improvement and effective program management which helps
the companies in gaining overall goal and objective.
TESCO is the leading grocery and general merchandize as multinational retailer. It has its
headquarter within the Welwyn Garden City, England, United Kingdom. There are 6,800 total
stores of company. The total revenue of company is 63,911 million. They employ more than
450,000 employees within their organization which indicates that company has huge employee's
retention. The above report includes the several changes which have been taken within the
TESCO. Further it includes the application of change management model. Report further carried
froward with the risk, opportunities and challenges which are faced by company while
implementing changes within the TESCO. Report ends with the several risks which had been
faced by company if change is not resist by the employees and how the leaders can effectively
mitigate such risk within the company through several strategies.
MAIN BODY
Recent changes within company-
Organizational changes:
It refers to any of the alteration which occurs into overall work environment.
Organizational change is essential characteristics of many organizations. A company should
develop adaptability towards change otherwise it would either to be left behind or swept away by
several forces for change. Chang into the organization is inevitable in the progressive culture.
Modern companies are hugely dynamic, adaptive and versatile to multiplicity of change. It is
alteration of the structural relationship and individual role within the company. This is largely
structural in the nature (Lambert, 2019). A company could be changed in many ways. Their
technology can be changes, their structure, its people and all another element could be changed.
The organizational changes call for the change in individual behaviour of worker. Some recent
changes which have been occurred within the company are as follows-
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Technological change-
The technological change is often introduced as element of the large strategic change into
the organization, whereas sometime it takes place by their own. An essential aspect of changing
technologies is determined who in company would be threatened through changes. For becoming
successful, technologies should be changed and must be incorporated across the overall system
of organization, and management structure should be developed for supporting it. The
advancement of various technologies into the TESCO let the companies to achieve their overall
goal and objective (Smith, 2019). The companies by developing several technologies can reduce
the labour work so that they can render great services to the consumers and allow them to have
an amazing experience with the company as whole. Technological change within company help
them to enhance their quality of services and rendering the appropriate goods and services to the
consumers. Companies are moving forwards towards improving technologies within TESCO let
them to increase their revenue and profit further. Thus, the company can sustain in market for
long term and compete with the rivals into the marketplace. Because several technologies
development and improvement contributes into the overall success of company. Company could
make changes to their technology infrastructure, system, automation, software and hardware etc.,
Operational Structure Change-
Structural change could also occur due to the strategic change as per the changes
organization decided to acquire other business and further should integrate it, along with that due
to the operational change or the changes into managerial style. For example, organization that
wishes to implement more participative changes into the decision-making could, might needed
for changing their hierarchical structure. TESCO had also decided to simplify their operational
structure so that they can improve their efficiency and render line manager the clear
accountability for consumer and colleagues experience. The compliance manager and people
manager's role would be eliminated from the big stores and fulfilment centres within the United
Kingdom. The customer experience manager's role into the present 266 stores would be
eliminated, and providing their line manager with direct accountability for the consumer
services, in line with across all other stores of TESCO. This change would affect the 1,700
colleagues who will be supported for finding the alternative role across business wherever it is
possible. As result of these change, 900 newer roles across broader remit would be developed as
Learning Partners, People Partners and Colleague Relations Partner who are working across
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