Minimizing Negative Impacts of Change on Organizational Behavior

Understanding
and
Leading Change

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1. Compare different organisational examples where there has been an impact of change on
an organisation’s strategy and operations...............................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
P2. Assessment of internal and external change drivers impact management style, group and
organizational behaviours.......................................................................................................6
P3 Evaluate measures that can be taken to minimise negative impacts of change on
organisational behaviour........................................................................................................8
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................9
P4 Explain different barriers for change and determine how they influence leadership
decision-making in a given organisational context................................................................9
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................11
P5 Apply different leadership approaches to dealing with change in a range of organisational
contexts.................................................................................................................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Organizational reforms are defined as a framework of variations and adjustments to the
processes, products/items, services or strategies of a organisation. It is necessary for each
organisation engaged in every industrial sector to examine differentiated outside and inner
factors to generate improvement. It offers formative knowledge and leadership that can be more
effective in developing a evolving market climate for greater benefits through creativity (Caro,
Kök and Martínez-de-Albéniz, 2019). In this article, Marks and Spencer(M&S), a leading retail
corporation has been chosen to offer a range of facilities and brands to people throughout the
world. Mark & Spencer are successfully enhancing its profit through bringing in changes in their
retail stores and ways in which they are showcasing their apparels to consumers. The changes in
outlay have successfully help organisation to retain employees as well as consumers enhancing
satisfaction of both of them. The study-report covers the comparative analysis of aspects wherein
transition affects the policy and activities of businesses, the measurement of transition in the
business process. In conjunction, the recognition of challenges to progress that affect
leadership/managerial decision-making and variety of leadership responses to the transition
initiative was built within the framework of the chosen enterprise. Change is necessary in an
organisation as it enables them to deal with changing external environment as well. There are a
number of companies who have successfully managed changes into their business through
technology. Amazon is one such example as Jeff Bezos have used different leadership style and
successfully included technological changes in his business. There are several changes within
Amazon that are properly managed in order to sustain in market for long period.
TASK 1
P1. Compare different organisational examples where there has been an impact of change on an
organisation’s strategy and operations.
Changes are significant aspects of every enterprise since these improves the efficiency of
the corporation as well as actual execution of business strategies. In this business, it is important
to ensure that changes in their operational environment made by evaluating different types of
factors both within and outside. In the perspective of such two companies, the influence of the
transition on their strategies and business activity is evaluated in the following manner:
Change Marks & Spencer Aldi UK

Technological
Need At current scenario, regular
improvements are happening in
the supermarket sector. It is also
important to integrate state-of-
the-art higher technology into
the business in order to ensure
that these are highly
competitive as well as have
innovative technology against
opponents. In this way, M&S
group plc use innovative and
higher technology to offer
consumers with a higher-quality
experience that allows them to
access the stores remotely via
online shopping and making
purchasing smoother (Douma
and Adler, 2020).
The continuing transformation in the
global retail industry renders it feasible
for businesses to exploit fresh and
emerging technologies from which
prevailing company trends have been
questioned. Aldi implements specific
improvements in its technology focused
on a structure that focuses primarily on
reducing the commitment and time
expended by the warehouses managers.
Impact on
Strategy
it has been analysed that
company M&S Group Plc is
facing technical transition
through corporation's web page
improvement and rapid
exclusions of backend offices
structures via the use of joint
partnership with Tata
consulting services.
To introduce in the adjustment, Aldi uk
incorporates use of of RFID, that allows
the management to track customer visits
to store more efficient by week and
months / quarter.
Impact on
Operations
With the implementation of
higher-tech technology within
the context of the company
Thanks to digital technologies, Aldi UK
will assess the huge influence on their
time, capital and energy that can be