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Understanding and Leading Change in Organizations

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Internal and external drivers of change that affects leadership, team and individual behaviour within organisation.3 P.3. There are two types of changes which are- Planned changes- These are those changes which is planned by company to move company with the objective of modifying and altering the nature and system of business.Example of internal planned changes- Change in products or service, and changes in the system of administration and example of external planned changes are technological innovation and advancement in the area of communication, IT etc.

Understanding and Leading Change in Organizations

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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1P.1. Impact of changes on organization's strategies and operations. .........................................1P.2. Internal and external drivers of change that affects leadership, team and individualbehaviour within organisation. ...................................................................................................3P.3. Measures that can be taken to minimise negative impacts of change on organisationalbehaviour.....................................................................................................................................4TASK 2...........................................................................................................................................6P.4. Explain different barriers for change and determine how they influence leadershipdecision making in ASDA..........................................................................................................6P.5. Different leadership approaches to deal with change within ASDA...................................8CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11
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INTRODUCTIONManagement of change is very important in handling the change that needs to beimplemented in a company. In the world of business changes are constant. Changes are notsomething that move away but it is the increasing rate of event that happens on regular basis. Soit is very important for all the business to understand and lead the changes. In this present report,there is brief comparison of two organisation regarding the impact of change on an organisationsstrategies and operations (Hillson, 2017). Companies chosen in this assignment is ASDA andSainsbury's, both are leading in retail sector and popular companies in retail sector. This reportwill also evaluate the ways in which internal and external drivers of change affect leadership,team and individual behaviour in a company. Furthermore, this assignment will also evaluatemeasure to reduce and control the negative effects of change on the behaviour of company.Moreover, various barriers for changes are also included in this report.TASK 1P.1. Impact of changes on organization's strategies and operations. There are two impacts of changes on all organisations, i.e. negative or positive way.Organisations faces lots of issues and troubles in implementing changes as they have direct andindirect impact both. ASDA and Sainsbury's are the two organisations that faces many issues inimplementing changes and are largely affected by these changes. These all changes thatcompanies faces has two types of impact that is positive and in negative way. There are majorly two types of changes which are-Planned changes- These are those changes which is planned by company to movecompany with the objective of modifying and altering the nature and system of business.Example of internal planned changes- Change in products or service, and changes in the systemof administration and example of external planned changes are technological innovation andadvancement in the area of communication, IT etc. (Mezirow, 2018). Unplanned changes- These are the changes which companies are not prepared, it hasdirect impact on the operations and functions of business. External unplanned changes arepolicies, laws of government and internal unplanned changes are demographic composition andperformance gap. Impact of changes on ASDA1
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Politicalchanges- These are the changes which has direct impact on the operations andfunctions of business. Political changes are rate of taxation, unemployment, health and safetylaws, food laws and pricing policies etc. In order to work and run the business in most effectiveway, it is very important for ASDA to adopt and implement these changes within theorganisation. Company wants to elaborate and expands there business by controlling andreducing the problems and interruptions of implementing changes by planning and making laws.ASDA be always aware of laws, policies and regulations (Glass and Cook, 2016). There iscounter impact of political changes on business operations and functions but sometime it servesoptimistic impact on the business. For example, proving subsidy by government is results inpositive impact on company. And increasing of taxes on trade or anything will be negative effecton business (Serrat, 2017). Environmentalchanges- These changes are the major threat which results in globalwarming. Global warming is caused due to bulk discharge of carbon-dioxide gas by differentcompanies. ASDA is going to protect environment by reducing and controlling those activitieswhich caused global warming. The management of ASDA is planning and introducing ozone-friendly stores in the market. The most impressive thing of ASDA is there stores are discharging50 to 55 % less carbon-dioxide. They are also focusing on social responsibilities in order tocontrol and minimize the negative impact. Impact of Change on SainsburyTechnological Change- These are the changes that generally have optimistic impact onthe business. In order to run the business more smoothly and increase the market share, it is veryessential to adopt and implement these changes. Sainsbury is increasing its technologies anddigitization as it assist buyers to purchase the products whenever and wherever they need.Sainsbury is leading in retail industry in UK. Sainsbury's products and services are highlyinnovative and creative which attracts many people towards them. Sales Management ofcompany understand the shopping trends of customers and implement this changes as soon aspossible in there selling operations. Beside this, they are also increasing elaborating there digitalteam within the organisation (O'Donnell and et.al 2015). Economic Change- This is most common changes that has direct and indirect impact oneach and every business as any changes in economy affects the entire operations and functions ofcompany. Sainsbury has faced as well as overcome all the challenges which occurs in the2
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