Understanding and Leading Change Assignment Solved
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Understanding andLeading Change
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1a) Impact of change on organisation's operations and strategy..............................................1b) Ways in which internal and external change drivers leadership, individual and teambehaviour................................................................................................................................3c) Measures to minimize negative influence of change on organisational behaviour............5TASK 2............................................................................................................................................7a) Barriers to change and their impact on leadership decision making..................................7TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8a) Application of different leadership approaches to deal with change.................................8CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
INTRODUCTIONChange is a continual process that require to be done by all organisation in order tosustain and grow in marketplace for long term. Different number of chances takes place inenvironment where business perform its all operations and activities systematically. In thepresent report, chosen organisation is Sainsbury's and ASDA, both are deals in retail sector.Sainsbury's decide to integrate with ASDA, hence new organisation launched with name“Sainsbury ASDA”. It belongs to retail industry of United Kingdom. This assignment includeseffect of change on strategy and operations of companies as well as impact of change drivers onits behaviour. Different models and theories are determined on overcoming the negativeinfluence of alteration. Apart from this, barriers to change are also determined that highly effectson leadership decision-making. At last, different range of leadership theories to a changeimitative is also include in this project. TASK 1a) Impact of change on organisation's operations and strategyChange is a continuous process for each and every company in order to sustain incompetitive marketplace. In an organisation, presence of all change will highly impacts insoperations and strategies in direct or indirect manner. It may take place in different ways liketechnology, market trends, organisational culture, preference and taste of customers. There aremainly two factor of change such as external and internal drivers. Under internal factor, changesconsists of technological factor, organisational culture and financial management. In case of external changes, it consist economical, social, environmental and politicalfactor. In an organisation, changes are play vital role in the success and development atcompetitive market. In recent days, digitalisation is identified as main variation that has moreimpact on business operations (Díaz, 2013). It is benefit the company to enlarge their businessfunctions as well as help in attraction of different client to purchase their goods and services.Another change is flexibility which is adopted by firm that assist in becoming more successful. Sainsbury's: It is the supermarket chain in the UK. It was founded by John JamesSainsbury in 1869. It is specialises in the marketing of Fruit & vegetables, Meat & fish home etc.ASDA: It is a British supermarket retailer, located in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Itwas founded by Roger Burnley in 1965. It specialises in the selling of Grocery, financial servicesand general merchandise. 1
Sainsbury's is a retail company located in the United Kingdom. It has decide to mergetheir business operations and activities with similar size of company which is ASDA. Mainpurpose behind merging their business to increase market share and strong position at globallevel. If both organisation get integrated then they have a better possibility of accomplishingcompetitive edge (Dori, Mevarech and Baker, 2018). It support them in making a strong positionover their competitors like LIDL, TESCO etc.Organizational change can take different forms such as company’s strategy, policies,structure, technology, procedures, or culture. The modification may be formed years inbeforehand or may be required on an enterprise because of a change in the environment. Thereare some changes in the firm and its impact on its strategy and operations are explained as under:Technology: Sometimes alteration is encouraged by speedy development andimprovement in technology. As per the point of view of Gordon Moore, change dictates that thewhole complexity of computers will multiple approx 18 months with no maximise in cost(Organizational Change, 2018). Such change is promoting firm to modify their technologyfactly. The technological challenges concerned in business include the designing of strategies tomake efficiency, advantage, profitability and effectiveness. For example: In operations have been changed by innovative developments likeinteractive kiosks, mobile payments, RFID tagged products, smart shopping carts and BLEtechnology. Beside this, The technology that leads the change effects numerous stages of firm,such as enterprise system and back office and, to a lot of consumers-facing functionalities likepayments, loyalty programs and customer services. Thus, it prove changes in technology hasmore effect on business operations and strategies. Set a right price for a product is very essentialfor an organisation generate revenue and to sustain in market. Technology plays an essential rolein everything from production to sale of the final items. Business can use new technologies likecomputerized pricing models to assist company gauge the product demand and set optimum saleprice.Change in the supply or demand: It is a main change which highly effects on thebusiness operations and strategy in direct manner. In case of alteration in demand and supplythere is direct influence on production. Due to reduction in demand of product manager has tomodify production schedule. Hence, there is impact on operation of organisation either inpositive or negative manner because of fluctuation in demand. There is direct relationship2
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