Understanding and Leading Change in Organizations

Understanding and Leading
Change
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INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
P1. Impact of organizational change on strategy and operations of 2 companies.......................3
P2. Evaluation of ways in which internal and external drivers of change affect leadership, team
and individual behaviors..............................................................................................................5
M1. Assess the different drivers for change in each of the given examples and the types of
organizational change they have affected....................................................................................8
P3. Evaluation of measures taken to minimize the negative impact of changes upon the
organizational behavior...............................................................................................................8
M2 Apply appropriate theories and models to critically evaluate organisational response to
change..........................................................................................................................................9
P4. Barriers for Change...............................................................................................................9
M3. Force field analysis............................................................................................................11
P5. Leadership Approaches.......................................................................................................11
M4 Extent to which leadership approaches can deliver organizational change........................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13
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INTRODUCTION
Organizational change is defined as a process that involves execution of modification and
alteration in systems, products, service or technique in an organization. This is crucial aspect for
every enterprise engage in any industrial sector as analyze different external and internal forces
in order to bring change (Yrjölä and et. al., 2019). It provide formative direction and guidance
through which innovative can effectively ensued with maximum profitability with the adoption
of change in business environment. This report has been conducted on Marks and Spencer,
company operate their services as a leading industry in retail sector and offer different type of
services and products to customers all around the world. In this report formative discussions has
been made on change that are introduced in two entities of same industrial sector along with their
impact. In addition to this, organizational strategy along with the driver of change as well as
measures to reduce negative impact of change is also discussed in this report. Lastly leadership
approaches are discussed in order to effectively deal with alteration process.
P1. Impact of organizational change on strategy and operations of 2 companies
Change acts as an essential element for an organization as it increases business efficiency
and effective execution of organizational operations. In this enterprise is required to make sure
that they incorporate changes in their business environment by evaluation different type of
factors in internal and external environment (Bogue, 2019). As each and every change have
capability that can impact upon business functioning. In context with this two organizations are
considered as to evaluate the influence of change upon its strategies and business functioning.
Change Marks & Spencer TESCO
Technological
Need
Due to the frequent changes that
undertake place within retail industrial
sector give rise the need of
implementing high-tech technology in
organizational premises in order to be
ensure more competitive
advancements against rivals. In
context with this, Marks and Spencer
There are constant changes that are
prevailing in global retail industrial
segment. This makes entities within this
to undertake use of emerging as well as
latest technologies through which taken
disrupt competitive market forces. Due
to this Tesco is introducing certain
alteration in their technology aspects in
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Impact on
Strategy
Impact on
Operations
is bringing innovative and high
technology in their workplace
structure as to serve consumers with
high quality products and services in
order to gain maximum revenue in
retail industrial sector.
organizational structure that aim
towards reducing efforts and times
invested by organization in workplace
structure in stock counting.
This has been evaluated that Marks
and Spencer is undergoing with
digital transformation via
improvement in entity website and
immediate exclusion of legacy IT
systems by leveraging on the
partnership with TCS.
In order to facilitate the change in
effective manner TESCO undertake use
of RFID technology through which
entity can effectively facilitate fast
tracking of consumers. With the help of
this technology Tesco can undertake
accurate inventory accounting process.
Due to implementation of high-tech
technology in company workplace
structure, it is essential for HR
department of entity to invest huge
fund to conduct training and
development session for employees in
order to make them compatible with
introduced technological trend.
Due to this technology Tesco can
measure significant impact upon their
time, money and efforts that can be
effectively saved by company that they
spend by physical counting of
inventory. This will significantly impact
upon reducing overall cost of operations
for Tesco.
Structural
Need
It has been evaluated that, Marks and
Spencer operate their functioning in
business environment which is
unstable. This pose threat towards
company if did not adopt changes
accordingly.
There are dynamic changes in global
retail sector that increases competition,
this makes entities performing the
business operations to undertake
significant alteration in their workplace
structure.
Company restructured their clothing TESCO undertake strategy to simplify
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