Understanding and Leading Change

Understanding and
leading change
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1 : Organisational examples of force of change on organisations strategy & operations....3
M1 : Drivers for change and type of organisational change that has affected.......................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
P2 : Influence of internal & external drivers on team, leadership & individual behaviour. .5
P3: Measures to reduce the negative impact of change on organisational activities..............8
M2 : Organisational response to change through models and theories..................................9
D1 : Conclusions and recommendations for effective planning and applying change........10
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................11
P4 : Different barriers for change & their influence on decision making by leaders...........11
M3 : Force field analysis and its influence on decision-making..........................................12
D2 : Evaluation of force field analysis.................................................................................13
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................14
P5: Leadership approach to deal with change in organisational context..............................14
M4 : Extend to which leadership approaches can deliver change........................................15
D3 : Effectiveness of leadership approaches and models of change....................................16
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................18
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................19
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Introduction
Organization change is referred to as a Process that is bringing change in the overall
structure strategies of organisation. It is related to internal and external factors that are affecting
the process of change. It is very essential for organisation to adapt to the changes that is taking
place in organisation to ensure their survival and have a competitive advantage. In the present
report Tesco Limited is considered as the UK organisation that is part of the Retail Industry
another organisation is sports direct International PLC that is the retail giant dealing in sports
related products. Present report deals with how change can influence the behaviour of individual
and overall contribution for organisation (Cameron and Green, 2019). There are different
leadership approaches and models that have been developed in order to understand how
effectively change can be adopted by organisation. Apart from this there are several barriers of
change that can also take place in an organisation and that has to be discussed and dealt with the
help of certain models and approaches.
TASK 1
P1 : Organisational examples of force of change on organisations strategy & operations
Change has a direct impact on strategies employee’s policies and structure of
organisation. A continuous process where different approaches can be used for the purpose of
adapting changes that varies from every organisation.
In the present scenario, there is discussion of changes in Tesco PLC and sport direct
international & how these organisations have taken measures to deal with the changes they both
are part of the Retail Industry that is affected by the changes that are taking place in the Macro
environment:
Sports International PLC:
Change: Sports direct International recently in the year 2019 December has revealed that they
are planning to replanned. They have intended to adopt a new name of phrases group. It is a big
change for an organisation to completely change their name to Fraser's group PLC (Choi, Pos,
and Magnusson, 2016).
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Impact on strategies: This thing is going to affect their strategy such as the marketing strategy
of the organisation will be completely changed they will have to change their name from
everywhere and this is going to impact their present activities.
Impact on Leadership: This change is going to affect the leadership behaviour as there will be
requirement to form some nutrients who can work towards implementation of the strategy. A
total of 75% of all the shareholders have to change for it (Sports Direct proposes name change to
Frasers Group, 2019).
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Tesco:
Change: Tesco has recently introduced a self service tax system in the network. The
implementation of this payment system is completely new at Tesco and is leading to a strategic
plan change. It is completely different from my new checkout system and different from the
normal system of traditional payment that was related with carrying transactions (Change
Management, its Factors and Effects, in Tesco PLC, 2016).
Impact on strategies: Have an impact on the strategies as there will be new system of serving
the customers in a better manner and better quality of services. The main purpose of the system
is to accelerate the checkout process and reduction in the labour cost that is associated with their
physical retail outlets.
Impact on leadership behaviour: Leaders in Tesco will focus on new strategies that are
completely new procedure or method will be required for the purpose of facilitating the customer
(Change Management, its Factors and Effects, in Tesco PLC, 2016.
M1 : Drivers for change and type of organisational change that has affected
Drivers of change: Change in Sports international PLC is going to impact whole structure of the
organisation as there is acquisition of house of Fraser, Evans cycle, Game digital and sofa.com.
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