Understanding and Leading Change

Understanding and
Leading Change

INTRODUCTION
Growing as well as knowing modification is undertaken as the crucial prospect of whole
organisation in which leaders can adopt several things in appropriate manner. Changes is
considered as the continuous procedures where enterprises modify its structure, technologies,
operational system and others for obtaining competitive advantages into environment of business
(Abeandalet, 2013). According to the cases, selected organisation for this report is Vodafone, it
is the well known multinational telecommunication conglomerate. Their headquarters is in
Berkshire, United Kingdom. This report covers the illustration of two different organisation and
how its strategies and operations get impacted, changes intrinsic as well as extrinsic driving force
that impact behaviours of group, leadership as well as individuals. Also, the steps by which firm
can decrease their negative impact and several changing obstacle that effect leadership decision
taking process are discussed. Along with this, usages of various leadership approach for dealing
with modification is mentioned into in this report.
TASK 1
P1
It is significant to get knowledge regarding changes within firm and its effects upon their
strategies as well as activities. Also, this knowledge may be developed efficaciously during
modification effect is examined on activities as well as functions of 2 organisations that comes
under same sector. This will assists to understand many ways in which modification get
impacted both firms. For example: the comparison is performed among Virgin mobile and
Vodafone. Both firm views few modification into respect of their integration. For example:
Presently, respective firm is doing a modification afterwards its merger with company IDEA.
Where as Virgin mobile ready itself for the t-mobile and sprint merger (Boost, MetroPCS and
Virgin to survive merger with Sprint, T-Mobile executives promise, 2019). respective firm
functions that company as well as their merger will definitely parting dense trace inside their
plan of action as well as activities. Thus, both the companies are compared that are explained
below:
Organisation Changes Drivers of
change
Impact on
strategy
Impact of
operations
Vodafone Changes in Business After These changes of
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Technology-
As technology
is growing day
by day so, this
becomes easy
to operates in
all UK.
Vodafone is
always
undertaken as
the
competitive
organisation in
respect of
technology
adoption by
them. They
believed to
used advanced
inputs of
technology to
facilitates
appropriate
outputs to its
clients within
UK and
another places.
expansion merger, the
scope of
expansion
have widen
showing the
resource
sharing into
both firm and
efficacious
financial
capabilities.
The merger
permit them
sign the deal
with global
enterprises
machines in
context to
bring
technology to
home like AI
and internet
related things
(Vodafone
Idea signs
multi-million
dollar IT deal
with IBM,
2019). This
impact the
strategy
strategy has impacted
its operation as
recently the
organisation can
allow accessibility
affect to its clients in
context to effective
connectivity and
good internet
connection.
Moreover, internally,
company will be
hiring new technical
staff as well as
provides appropriate
training to external
workers which will
assist them to
enhance its abilities
within potential
market. As the
technology changes
the respective
organisation have to
change their working
procedures that
should be in more
significant way.
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positively. By
this the
choice of the
firms changes
they utilised
new
technologies
and
procedures
effectively
and
efficiently.
Virgin Mobile In respect of
technology
UK have one
of the
advanced
telecommunic
ation
infrastructures
into world. In
context of
technology
advancement,
Virgin Mobile
adapted the
technologies
so that it can
able to
facilitate good
services to its
Updated and
quality
services
However,
into merger,
firm has to
adopt the
updated
technology
into their
telecom
network like
Automation
an integration
network for
being
competitive.
This will
have
optimistic
impacts as
strategies is
Also, they have
pessimistic impact on
its operations as new
techniques are
utilised for training
which may interrupt
the management and
employees of
company to adopt
these advanced
technologies. Also,
they changes their
working methods as
it switch their works
to more digitalised
manner.
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clients within
UK.
related. As
there is
change into
technology so
they have to
choose the
Automation
an integration
network that
will
beneficial for
company.
TASK 2
P2
Change Drivers is defined forces of company's outside or inside which encourage
changes within firm. Two changes drivers like intrinsic and extrinsic. Both the drivers has
effects on attitudes of Vodafone group, leaders as well as single. Both of them are discussed
below:
Change Internal/
external
Impact on
leadership
behaviour
Impact on
team/
department
al
behaviour
Impact on
individual
behaviour
Measures to
minimise
negative impacts
Innovation: It is
defined as the
prominent
drivers for
change within
organisation.
Most of the firm
Internal These kinds
of
innovation
effects
leadership
positively as
their leaders
As a
pressures
can be
experienced
by the group
for adopting
new ways as
This impact
the
behaviours
of an
individuals
as they have
to
The measure to
minimise the
negative impacts
is training will be
provides to team
and individuals
which help them
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