Understanding And Leading Change

Understanding And
Leading Change

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Organisational examples of change impact on organisation strategy and operations............1
M1 Change drivers and types of organisational changes that has affected.................................3
TASK 2 ...........................................................................................................................................3
P2 Impact of internal and external drivers on individual and team behaviour and leadership.. .3
P3 Measures to minimise negative impacts of changes on organisational behaviour................5
M2 Organisational response to change through theories and model..........................................6
D1 Conclusion & recommendations for applying changes and effective planning....................7
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8
P4 Barriers for change and their influences on leadership decision-making..............................8
M3 Force field analysis and their influences on decision making..............................................8
D2 Evaluation of force field analysis..........................................................................................9
TASK 4 .........................................................................................................................................10
P5 Leadership approaches in order to deal with changes.........................................................10
M4 Extent to which leadership approaches can deliver changes..............................................11
D3 Effectiveness of leadership approaches and change models...............................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Organisational changes considered as a process of brining modification in their existing
methodology of businesses like their strategies and structure that can be happened because of the
internal as well as external factors. As changes implementation is essential for businesses to
ensure their competitive position and survivability. Internal factors includes structure, processes,
culture and external involves economic, technological, political and environmental as well. This
will help in minimising the cost of operations and employee resistance which will assist in
increasing the effectiveness of change efforts. For this assignment Tesco Ltd is chosen which is a
big retailer in United Kingdom. It was incorporated in 1919 by Jack Cohen that deals in
supermarkets, hypermarkets, shops, superstores etc. Under this report study about the changes
and its impacts on business strategy and operation, how changes effect the behaviour and
performance of individual and team and leadership also. Identification of barriers of change,
measure for minimising negative impact of changes, models for effective adoption of changes
with the help of leadership approaches.
TASK 1
P1 Organisational examples of change impact on organisation strategy and operations.
Changes has huge impacts on the organisational strategies, structure, policies, workers
and operations as well (Al-Haddad, 2015). As changes are considered as a continuous procedure
where several approaches are needed to adopt but such changes may different for all
organisations. It is essential for the businesses to implement changes because it assists company
to become a market leader, keep staff motivated, gain competitive advantages as it facilitate
several developmental opportunities along with the high efficiency. For detailed understanding
an example of changes with its impact on business strategies and operations are considered with
respect of ASDA and Tesco.
ASDA'S changes and its impacts on their strategy and operation:
Changes Due to the technological advancement or increased usage of technologies by
customers, the company ASDA require to change related to online selling as well
as self service checkouts in order to better customer services. In addition, due to
the dietary habits of people as they had to raise foreign products like Indian

Mexican because of they want new food.
Impact on
strategy
For implementing changes company have to make plans for providing training to
their employees that will impact on their current strategies. ASDA has to adopt
product development and market penetration as a strategies through which they
launch new and unique products in their present market as well as brings some
attractive innovation (Beech, 2017).
Impact on
operations
The company require to focus on information management mechanism and data
management system as well because they gone online and implements
technological advancement for their self service checkouts that will influence
existing workers and their working manner.
Change
drivers
This includes the technology change and sociocultural changes.
Tesco's changes and its impacts on their strategy and operation:
Changes Due to the raising unemployment, demand of Tesco's goods is anticipated to
decline as in order to overcome from unemployment issue the company creates
employment opportunities by opening their new stores easily because government
supports and promotes large retailers in order to create several job opportunities.
Impact on
strategy
Tesco was to emphasise on their current business by facilitating goods at low cost
but due to the occurrence of changes they require to modified their emphasises
towards the enlargement of business by opening new stores.
Impact on
operations
This kind of changes are considered as a developmental changes as it will increase
their current customer base and stores will be well accessible, hence fund
requirements and inventory demand that will be increase (Burke, 2017).
Change
drivers
Tesco's changes are related to the political pressure and economical aspects.