Leading Strategic Change: Opportunities, Barriers, and Impact Analysis

Leading strategic
change

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Background information of company.........................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................4
Discuss the opportunities for ethical and value based leadership...............................................4
Potential barriers in relation to improved diversity management and how they can get
addressed.....................................................................................................................................6
Seven levels of consciousness model..........................................................................................6
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................8
Importance of planning and communicating change process with respect to theoretical model
and a communication plan..........................................................................................................8
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................13
Impact analysis of change on key stakeholders........................................................................13
Methods an organisation could use in order to monitor all impacts through the period of
change.......................................................................................................................................14
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................16
Analyse leadership skills and competencies required by senior staff in order to drive change16
How skills and competencies can be further developed...........................................................18
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................20
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................21
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INTRODUCTION
Leading strategic change is defined as a program whose main focus is on helping people
in learning about all principles of personal change in relation with organisational change. There
are certain principles while following leading strategic change like lead with culture, start at the
top, new thinking, lead outside the lines and many more. In an organisation it is very important
to deal with certain strategic changes to achieve success and it can be done in many forms like
redesigning the organisation, initiating new services in the organisation, improving customer
service and many more(Serem, 2020). The below report includes opportunities in the
organisation for ethical and value based leadership, barriers to the introduction of improved
diversity and how they can get addressed, importance of planning and communicating the change
process in terms of a model and communication plan. The report also includes impact analysis of
change and methods that a organisation can use to monitor all changes, analysation of leadership
skills and certain competencies and how they can get developed in future. The below report is
based on Sainsbury. It is the second largest chain of supermarkets in whole united kingdom. The
company was founded by John James Sainsbury in 1869 and they became the largest retailer of
groceries in 1922.
Background information of company Name of the organisation:- The report is based on Sainsbury which is largest retailer in
groceries. Size of organisation:- As the company is now Britain's third largest food retailer and has
455 supermarkets and 301 convenience stores. It has around 153000 people and provides
service to around 16 million customers each week. Main markets:- In terms of Sainsbury their main market is in 8 geographical locations
which are Torquay, Swindon, South East London, Enfield, Guildford, Dartford, Redhill
and Wolverhampton. The company was also split between three divisions like
Supermarket Ltd, Bank and Argos. Product and services:- Sainsbury provides services like dietary and lifestyle, beauty and
cosmetics, Health and Toiletries, home ware and outdoor, price lock.
 Key competitors:- In terms of Sainsbury their main competitors involve Morrisons,
Tesco, Aldi UK as well as associated British Foods. As all the competitors are dealing in
grocery merchandise and clothing retailing(Asser, 2020).

TASK 1
Discuss the opportunities for ethical and value based leadership
In terms of value based leadership all leaders rely on the values of organisation in order
to improve their performance. It basically means communicating all organisational values to
employees that how they had to perform the the organisation, what kind of behaviour they should
have in order to achieve business goals. In context with opportunities of value based leadership it
is been explained as below:- Communication:- While following a value based leadership in the organisation
communication gets improved which became an opportunity for all leaders as well as
employees as they are free to communicate with each other. People working in the
organisation are free to give their opinions and suggestion in company. It creates a
favourable opportunity for them as they can speak effectively about their thoughts. In
terms of Sainsbury, they are free to give to give their thoughts as team works together
and they also get feedback from investors in order to suggest more
solutions(WAFIROTIN, 2020).
 Productivity:- In organisation the opportunity gets created when in terms of productivity
which is possible while following a value based leadership. When productivity gets
improved in the organisation all leaders as well as employees share their values with each
other which creates a comfortable and flexible situation among whole organisation. It
becomes an opportunity for them as people gets encouraged to share their values among
whole team.
In terms of ethical leadership, it is defined as type of leadership in which all individuals
determines a conduct which will be correct and acceptable in each area. It means to put people
into management as well as at the position of leaders who will create relationship in the
organisation. In terms of opportunities in ethical leadership it is been explained as below:- More freedom:- It becomes an opportunity for the organisation to have the power of
doing jobs on their own and they are been trusted. So, individuals work in such
organisation where ethical leadership is followed they get more freedom which becomes
an opportunity for them. In context with Sainsbury, they developed a culture where full
freedom was given to employees as they were allowed to do each work on their own.

 Employment rights:- In an organisation employees expect that they have al kind of rights
and no discrimination is been done on the basis of age, gender , religion and so on. In
context with the organisation they had zero tolerance policy in which company was not
doing any kind of discrimination, bullying as well as victimisation. They were protecting
their employee rights and was giving fair treatment to them. Health and Safety:- In terms of health and safety of employees they should get involved
in each decision-making process as if they will not participate in decision-making then it
will affect their health. In context with Sainsbury, they made sure that their employees
health is not getting affected so they provided effective staff facilities, proper ventilation
which is required at the work place.
Henry roadblocks model:- Professional and social pressure:- In terms of leading strategic change the external
social pressure has been a major effect on business ethics. It includes many things like
ethical transformation, going beyond the law and Internet revolution. In context with
ethical transformation it means to operate a business in such a way that it does not break
any kind of law or rules. It is mainly based on community expectations through which
demand of customers get fulfilled. In relation of selected firm, it states that as Sainsbury
is located globally it too faces social pressure and professional pressure, For example-
They have to use resources in such a way that high quality of products are being provided
to customers. Professional pressure like seniors managers are enlarging business in many
other countries and for which it is critically important to focus on laws as well as
legislations. Pursuit of pleasure:- It terms of leading strategic change it means to explore human
nature and focusing mainly on all forms of pleasure that may arise. So, as the main focus
is on helping people to create certain experiences so in terms of that it is necessary to
create a situation of pleasure.
 Desire for power:- It refers to the situation in which power is either to control or achieve
business objectives . So, in terms of leading strategic change it as leaders help other
people so they use their power in terms of that.

Potential barriers in relation to improved diversity management and how they can get addressed
There can be many hurdles while having a diversity management in an organisation. So,
in terms of all barriers it is been explained as below:- Communication issues:- When there is a diversity management in an organisation there
can be many issues with respect to communication. As there are different people who
speak different languages so it might be not possible to have such effective
communication with each other(Gutberg and et.al, 2020). So, it creates certain issues in
the organisation. People may not address all problems due to such issues. In terms of
Sainsbury, their company was also located in different geographical locations and at each
area there are different people who get employed so according to that they face issues as
they were not able understand other people language.
 Resistance to change:- Due to improved diversity a barrier occurs with respect to
resistance to change. When new changes in policies and new employees get hired in the
organisation there may be some other people who don't want such changes. Many
negative conflicts get arise like violating comments can be there, racism and so on.
To solve such diversity issues Sainsbury managers made use of their education as well as
experience in order to create better diversity. They developed their organisational policy in such
a way diversity in context with recruitment gets increased. They also enabled continuous training
with respect to diversity so that communication barriers get reduced and culture of respect gets
increase.
Seven levels of consciousness model
There are seven levels of this model and with respect to organisation it is been explained
as below:- Survival consciousness:- It is the first level of consciousness which is all in relation with
survival. There may be many individuals who has a fear based relief that whatever
amount of money they earn they still want more(Ruban, Yashalova and Ermolaev,
2021). Relationship consciousness:- It is in relation with the aspect of safety. To feel safe the
person should have a feeling of been loved. There are many individuals who always want
more that even if they get too much love they still want more. They want to experience
more love.