Understanding and Leading Change

Understanding
and
Leading Change

Contents
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1.......................................................................................................................................................3
P1 Compare firms where there has been an impact of changes on an organisation's strategy and
operations...............................................................................................................................................3
P2 Determine ways in which internal and external drivers of change affect leadership, team and
individual behaviours..............................................................................................................................5
P3 Explain various methods that can be taken to reduce negative impact of change.............................6
M1 Assess the different drivers for change in each of the given examples and the type of organization
change they have affected......................................................................................................................8
M2 Apply appropriate theories and model to critically evaluate organization response to change........8
D1 Draw conclusion and recommendation with valid justification for planning effectively for change
and applying change impact analysis.......................................................................................................8
TASK 2.......................................................................................................................................................9
P4 Determine different barriers of changes and how they affect leadership decision............................9
M3 Use force field analysis to analysis driving and resisting forces and show how they influence
decision making.....................................................................................................................................10
D2 Critically evaluate the use of force field analysis in the context of meeting organization objective 10
P5 Evaluate different leadership approaches for dealing with change..................................................11
M4 Evaluate extent to which leadership approach can deliver organizational change effectively
applying appropriate model..................................................................................................................12
D3 Critically evaluate effectiveness of leadership approaches and model of change management.....12
CONCLUSION.........................................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..........................................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
For every type of organization change is essential because through it they able to enhance
their business as well as it will also help in developing huge customer’s base. In order to conduct
this company management needs to adopt various things such as analysis of market which help
in identifying customer’s need as well as requirement (Alavi and Gill, 2017). Organization taken in
report is AEGON which is founded in year 1983 and it’s headquarter is situated at Hague,
Netherland. They are operating their business in insurance, assets management and pension
sector. Topics which are covered in this report comprise of two organizations of respective sector
as well as internal and external drivers which impact on business. Along with this it will also
explain about leadership method or approaches which will help a firm in dealing with issues in
appropriate manner.
TASK 1
P1 Compare firms where there has been an impact of changes on an organisation's strategy and
operations
There are various type of changes which are face by an organization when they are operating
their business functions and for which they conduct market analysis on regular basis so that they
able to know change which occur at marketplace. In respect of this AEGON conduct comparison
to its competitor so that they know who is more effectively conducting business operations,
which are given below:-
Changes occur AEGON The Hartford
Structure The respective company
conduct its business through
hierarchy structure due to
which they face some issues
(Anderson, 2016). So in order
to resolve this they decide to
change their organization
This organization is operating
their business operations in
hierarchy organization
structure but in this they are
going through some major
issues which impact on their
operation on day to day basis

structure. So they shifted to
flat structure from hierarchy.
Through this they get several
benefits such as they able to
conduct their decision fast and
effective.
Strategy: Main strategy
behind implementing this
organization structure is that
through this employees get
motivated. That will directly
and indirectly leads to quality
of work which helps in
attaining work. For this
employer also treat their
employees in effective
manner.
Operation: When respective
company adopt flat structure at
workplace their is change
occur in positive manner such
as employees feel motivated
and conduct work properly.
Along with this it will also
save time of decision making
process (Fragouli and Ibidapo,
2015).
so they decide to change in flat
structure. By this their
employees get motivated and
conduct their work properly.
This will also help them in
conducting proper
communication.
Strategy: Strategy which is
adopted by respective
company in order to adopt flat
structure is that they train their
employees in effective manner
which help them in enhancing
their productivity in proper
way (Doppelt, 2017). Through
this they also able to know
how to conduct work in
effective manner so that it will
produce least wastage.
Operation: When respective
company adopt flat structure
they able to train their
employees effectively which
help them in adopting changes
properly. Along with this it
will also help them in
conducting their work in
proper way which leads to low
or minimum wastage.