Understanding and Leading Change : Assignment
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Understanding and Leading Change : Assignment
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Understanding and Leading Change
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3P1. Comparison of change on an organization's strategy and operations ..................................3P2. Evaluation of internal and external drivers of change affecting leadership, team andindividual behaviours..................................................................................................................5P3. Remedies to minimise negative impact of change on organizational behaviour..................7TASK 2............................................................................................................................................9P4. Different barriers for change and their impact on leadership decision-making....................9TASK 3 .........................................................................................................................................10P5 Covered in PPT....................................................................................................................10CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11
INTRODUCTIONOrganizational change refers to any alteration in total work environment. In other words,when an organization is disturbed by some internal or external force. It is inevitable in aprogressive and competitive culture. It may be good or bad. It affect the functioning of acorporation. An entity must develop adaptability to change by changing its structuralrelationships, strategies, policies, procedures and working climate. Moreover, modernorganizations are highly dynamic, versatile and adaptive to the multiplicity of changes. Abusiness should consider such changes as opportunities and work its ways to grow and becomemore successful (Kaufman, 2017). The chosen companies in this report are ZARA andPRIMARK. Further, the report exhibits comparison of different drivers for change byconsidering similarities and differences, impact of such changes on the leadership behaviour andbehaviour of individuals, different barriers for change and their influence on leadership decision-making, application of various leadership approached to deal with change and recommendationsand conclusions. TASK 1P1. Comparison of change on an organization's strategy and operations Organizational structure is the system that defines ways in which business activities areto be carried to achieve organizational goals. The assigns roles, responsibility and supervision.Along with this, flow of information within the company is also included in this. ZARA and PRIMARK have been considered for this case. ZARA is a Spanish fastfashion retailer based in Arterio in Galicia. It was founded in 1975 by Amancio Ortega andRosalia Mera. It operates with lean organizational structure, which focuses high performance. Onthe other hand, PRIMARK is an Irish fast fashion retailer headquartered in Dublin and asubsidiary of ABF. The first store was founded by Arthur Ryan in June 1969. It adapts the tallstructure due to its various level of hierarchy. It is follows decentralized system. A comparison between both the brands on the basis of different drivers of change is asfollows: BasisZARAPRIMARKTechnological Change It uses point-of-sale (POS)systeminstoresforThe management of thecompanyuseslatest
maintainingtightlinksbetween vendors to improveordering process. Further, itshas implemented personaldigital assistant to check theavailability of new designs ondaily basis. Also, it use humanintelligence and informationtechnology as hybrid modelfor better flow of informationfrom stores to headquarters.This enable the company havecontrol over less-desirableproducts. Further, it haslaunched online market tomake it easy for its customersto shop.technology for making dressesat less time and comfort withhigh quality and less defectswith it. In order to sustain inthe competitive environment, itupgrade its technology withthe changing environment.Also, its sales have not beenreducedevenwithoutlaunching an online site as itsrivals did. However, it hasstarted using technologieswhich eco-friendly to reducethe emission. Structural Change It has gone for verticalintegration with manufacturersto introduce new products inno time. The online websitehas boosted the salesespecially in Europe. Controlpolicy has been implementedfor to make product withhigher quality and easy tomanipulate. Also, it hascollaborate with a California-based Fetch Robotics to useartificial intelligence formanaging the stock inventory. It has expanded its business inUS and Bangladesh to improveits sales and its annual saleshas indeed increased by 17%.It was the biggest expansionwith the motive to keep theprices low. Further, it hasconstituted “Ethical Trade andEnvironmental Sustainability”team to assess the performancewith the standard. It has 350stores and plans to open morestores in the coming years.
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