Understanding and Leading Change in Sainsbury: Impact, Drivers, and Barriers

Unit 17 Understanding and
Leading Change

TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................4
Comparing the ways in which the changes impacts on the organisation strategy and its
operations.....................................................................................................................................4
Evaluating the influences that drivers of changes have on the organisational behaviour...........8
Explain different barriers for change and determining how they influence leadership decision-
making........................................................................................................................................11
Apply range of leadership approaches to change initiative.......................................................13
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................15
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................16

INTRODUCTION
Understanding and leading change in the business mainly aims in defining about
preparing the workers to implement the changes effectively in the company as by examining the
issues being faced by the company. Leading change in the company mainly helps in attaining
new expectations, commitment initiating the steps to implement the changes for improving the
processes. Sainsbury is mainly recognised for serving wide range of food and non food products
in the dynamic market for addressing the wide range of consumers demands and the needs. This
report provide details about the comparing the ways in which the organisations are manly
impacted in the strategy, operations. Leading and managing changes mainly aids in improving
the business and its operations in order to reduce the cost and attain more profits while operating
the dynamic market. Also, evaluating the influence that drivers of the changes have within the
organisation. Further more determining the barriers to the changes which influences the
leadership and the decision-making. Lastly applying the range of leadership approaches for
taking the change initiative in business.
MAIN BODY
Comparing the ways in which the changes impacts on the organisation strategy and its operations
For surviving in the competitive environment due to the latest trends an the
advancements in the technologies and the factors influences the companies to adapt the changes
as to be more competitive and sustain the business for the long term. Sainsbury is mainly
recognised as the multinational retailer for serving the wide range of food and non-food products
to the consumer while addressing their demands and the needs. Using pestle analysis for defining
the changes being occurred in the organisations as:
PESTLE analysis
Political factors: These are the changing regulations and the rules which mainly impacts
the business and its operations to serve the products in the dynamic environment. He main
political factors which impacts the company including the government rule and regulations,
political instability, Brexit influences and the trade conflicts between the countries mainly
impacts the business operations of the retailing companies in UK.
Economical factor: The economic factors mainly including the exchange rates,
unemployment, demand and supply of the labours, market expansion, trade tariffs and the