Leadership for Change: Role and Impact of Leadership in Change Management

Title: Leadership for change
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Executive summary
This paper presents in-depth analysis on role of leadership in change management. It facilitates
in incorporate market changes to ensure suitability. No single leadership style can be
implemented everywhere, therefore it is important to focus on skills and adopt changes.
Leadership aims to guide employees in right direction through clear instruction, motivation, skill
development and empowerment to achieve organization vision and mission. Evidence in this
paper states different factor shaping leadership and change include teamwork, organization
culture, communication, trust and continuous learning. Present business environment seek
adaptability to control direction and conflict to influence employee to work towards common
goal. However, presence of key leadership qualities does not guarantee success due to resistance
and other problems. Noting is permanent in organizational setting, flexibility is the key,
leadership do play key role in successful change management.
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Table of Contents
Executive summary.........................................................................................................................2
Introduction......................................................................................................................................4
Leadership........................................................................................................................................4
Leadership for change......................................................................................................................5
Trust.............................................................................................................................................6
Organziational culture..................................................................................................................6
Learning.......................................................................................................................................7
Teamwork and communication....................................................................................................7
Leadership sensing to paradoxes..................................................................................................8
Myths about change leadership....................................................................................................9
Individual leaders does all........................................................................................................9
Leadership is the key to change...............................................................................................9
One size fit for all organization..............................................................................................10
Recommendation...........................................................................................................................10
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................11
Bibliography..................................................................................................................................12
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Introduction
One cannot remain constant always; change is inevitable to happen due to various human and
market activity such as policy change, government regulation, volatility, customer demand,
social factors, technological advancement etc. market threats and opportunity leads to
organizational change to ensure long run sustainability. Change management involves
modification in present organization strategy or position to achieve set organizational goals for
future. This structured approach aims towards better organizational functioning, improve
employee behavior, implementation of new policy, tool or strategy. Organizational change is of
different type, one is development change that aims to improve present system, another is
transitional that aims to reach a new position through change and third is transformational
change that leads to drastic shift in present operational system and have strong impact on every
stakeholder. Whatever be the change, it requires strong leadership to implement it successfully.
This paper focuses on analyzing role of leadership for change, this paper include in-depth
analysis on the way leadership shapes on organizational change success or failure.
Leadership
Leadership aims to evolve and develop relationship between people and make them work
towards a common goal. It helps in shaping employee behavior in right direction, keep them
motivated and manage behavior through empowerment and collaboration (Daft, 2014). Whatever
is the definition for leadership but a leader must have followers, a person with power and
position, without follower cannot lead people. However, context of leadership varies with culture
and organization. For example, in Middle Eastern countries leadership is autocratic due to
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