Understanding and Leading Change

Understanding and Leading
Change
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
PART 1............................................................................................................................................3
Overview of each company and form of change they went through......................................3
SWOT analysis to determine external and internal drivers of change...................................3
Compare how drivers of change impact each company.........................................................6
Critical evaluation based on long term implication of forces of change within each firm....7
Conclusion and suggestions with justification.......................................................................8
PART 2............................................................................................................................................9
Overview of company............................................................................................................9
Application of force field analysis to identify both resisting and driving factors..................9
Critical examination of varied leadership approaches and theory of change management. . .9
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
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INTRODUCTION
Change can be defined act of moving business from where it is now to where it needs to
be in the future. It is key element of success and great growth of companies which make a firm
able to grab accessible opportunities, while operate its venture within specific industry. The
current assignment will be based on TESCO and Sainsbury’s, which falls under category of
leading supermarkets in the United Kingdom. This study will explain type of change companies
went through, PEST framework to determine external & internal forces of modification and will
also define implications of elements of change within each firm. Furthermore, this report will
describe appropriate suggestions in context of planning for change and implementing its impact
analysis. It will justify force field analysis implication in regard to company and then
recommendation that could help to meet objectives of firm. Moreover, this study will clarify
critical evaluation of varied approaches relate to leadership and models of change management
to handle with modification.
PART 1
Overview of each company and form of change they went through
TESCO is well known brand in retail industry, UK; because it offer affordable services
and products to local people (Rosnizam and et.al., 2020). Company has sells approximately
40,000 food items in its supermarkets. In additional, it provides apparel and other non food
category products to customers, which is quite beneficial for firm in term of increasing its sales.
Supermarket and its management go through specific form of change and that is changing needs
of buyer.
Furthermore, Sainsbury is another chosen company that has also sustained its business
within similar sector where above firm has operated with skilled workforce. It sells excellent
quality of items to consumers in exchange of money. Supermarket utilizes cookies to aid
individual consumer the excellent experience on official site (Hertz and Halkier, 2017). Its
management source more than 12,000 branded items from over 70 nations. Firm offer groceries
and other services to people in effective and systematic manner. Technology change is one of the
types of changes Sainsbury went through it.
SWOT analysis to determine external and internal drivers of change
SWOT analysis TESCO Sainsbury
Strengths  Good financial performance  Creative promotion
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or turnaround is the key
strength of company and also
consider as internal drive of
change which make firm able
to take further decision in
context of implementing new
technologies (Xie and et.al.,
2019).
 Skilled and talented
applicants are second
strength of TESCO, which
allow management to gain
competition advantages. It
can be recognize as external
driver of change.
tactics is external drive of
change within Sainsbury
that help management in
term of increasing
customer’s base and
profitability even better
than its rivals.
 Motivated employees
help firm to adopt change
and implement in order to
sustain for longer period
of time.
Weaknesses  Poor operational
performance of company in
specific markets is another
internal drive of change that
decrease sales and
profitability of business. It
has been analysed that few
outlets and grocery stores of
chosen brand are not
working effectively in
certain nations.
 Lack of management is one
of its weaknesses that impact
employees and business
performance in negative
manner, this driver of change
 The biggest weakness of
this supermarket is its
business limitation that
means firm is able to
manage its venture only
in UK, which unable
company to grab chances
while being operated at
global level.
 because of growing
competition in retail
industry Sainsbury has
attempt to cut down costs
and keep price low which
is one of its biggest weak
point that can drive its
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