Leading Organizational Change

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LEADING ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE
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Contents
Task 1...............................................................................................................................................3
1) Process-oriented leadership style to enhance work team........................................................3
2) Process-oriented leadership style for successful change management at WMC.....................3
Task 2...............................................................................................................................................4
Assumptions concerning the issue expressed..............................................................................4
Task 3...............................................................................................................................................5
WMC’s anticipation of need for change......................................................................................5
Typology of change suitable for WMC.......................................................................................6
Task 4...............................................................................................................................................6
Effectiveness of WMC in change management...........................................................................6
Scope for improvement................................................................................................................8
Task 5...............................................................................................................................................8
Significance of enlisting support from key stakeholders.............................................................8
Advice offered to WMC............................................................................................................10
References......................................................................................................................................12

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Task 1
1) Process-oriented leadership style to enhance work team
To complete this task I have assumed the role of Mira. As a leader and part of the decision-
making process of WMC, in the recent past, I have observed certain needs for change within the
manufacturing approach and process of WMC, for which active cooperation from the work team
is required. Process-oriented leadership style, which I am inclined towards, as indicated in my
leading change report, allows me to actively participate in the step-by-step planning and
execution of the change plan. This is a significant element of team management, which is
observed by Hayes (2018) as the most effective leadership style. This allows me to observe the
potential and strengths of team members, minutely, which helps in better task allocation. The
communication of the purpose of the change and its environmental significant helped in
acquiring the support of operational teams. Moreover, my inclination towards rewarding the staff
members in due course of successful completion of a task, active participation and advancement
towards the goal helped me to encourage the work teams to maintain a positive approach towards
the work assigned to them (Muenjohn et al. 2018).
2) Process-oriented leadership style for successful change management at WMC
As mentioned above, I practice process-oriented leadership style which is characterized by
meticulous planning, maintenance of constant coordination among the relevant organizational
department and activities and overlooking the execution at every stage. From the surface level,
my leadership style appears autocratic, as I prefer to overlook the change process at its every
stage (Bonsu and Twum-Danso, 2018). It also seems inspired by the transactional form of
leadership, as I tend to reward the team members for their participation, completion of task, and
progress towards the assigned or shared goals and acquire new skills. This is essential for
encouraging every member of the organizational work teams to remain focused and explore their
complete potential towards the achievement of assigned performance goals and in this case
completion of change process successfully.
However, this style of leadership does not inspire deeper level of loyalty and association among
the work teams with the organization. For instance, in WMC the change proposed, would cause
significant decrease in the number of staffs required, which might generate negative approach

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among the team members towards the plan proposed. For this, communication of the objective of
the proposed change and vision associated with it is to be communicated with the work team
members (Hayes, 2018). Therefore, I also implement certain elements of transformational
leadership style such as creating shared vision, minute planning of the change and implementing
the plan in tandem with the relevant team members. This ensures that the functional teams accept
the change plan, adding to the possibility of success of the change plan developed for WMC.
Task 2
Assumptions concerning the issue expressed
Customers-
Environmental awareness among customers has been germinated and WMC can improve it
further as a marketing initiative. WMC could use the market demand triggered by this awareness
for achieving supply contracts from major international brands like Nike, H&M, Walmart and so
on.
Competitors-
Though major competitors of WMC seem unfazed by harm that they cause to environment,
smaller brands are available that offer environmentally sound substitutes (CBI, 2019). If WMC
fails in reducing environmental footprint, it might cost the company its position in the market.
Technology-
The high cost of implementing biotechnology in textile manufacturing is due to the lack of
enough research on making it economically viable (Maiti, Kulkarni and Adivarekar, 2018 and
Singh and Hooda, 2018). Applying proper research WMC might be able to find a cost-effective
solution to it.
Human resource-
WMC could increase production and operational scales through successful acquisition of supply
contract from international brands. Increased operational scale might lead to less need for staff