Understanding and Leading Change Sample Assignment - Doc
Assignment brief for Unit 17 Understanding and Leading Change in the Pearson BTEC HND in Business program at ICON College of Technology and Management.
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Understanding and Leading Change Sample Assignment - Doc
Assignment brief for Unit 17 Understanding and Leading Change in the Pearson BTEC HND in Business program at ICON College of Technology and Management.
Added on 2021-01-01
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UnderstandingandLeading Change
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3LO1..................................................................................................................................................3Comparison of various changes on an organization's strategy and operations .....................3LO2..................................................................................................................................................6Evaluation of internal and external drivers of change affecting leadership, team and individualbehaviours...............................................................................................................................6Remedies to minimise negative impact of change on organizational behaviour...................8LO3................................................................................................................................................10Different barriers for change and their impact on leadership decision-making...................10LO4................................................................................................................................................12Leadership approaches to deal with organizational change.................................................12Conclusion:....................................................................................................................................13References:.....................................................................................................................................15
INTRODUCTIONOrganizational change means any modification or alteration in overall workingenvironment (Yılmaz and Kılıçoğlu, 2013). In other words, it can be said that if an organisation is affected byany internal or external force, is known as organisational change. It is one of the necessaryprocess in this competitive working culture. Organisational change affect the working of anorganisation. An organisation must create ability to modify by changing its strategies, policies,structural relationship and working climate. Furthermore, modern corporates are versatile,dynamic and easily adapt changes. In the present report, ZARA and PRIMARK is chosen as abase company. In addition to this, a detail discussion is mentioned regarding comparison ofvarious drivers for change. Along with this, impact of change in the behaviour of leadership andindividuals behaviour, different change barriers and its influence on leadership decision- makinghas been discussed in this report. At last, application of leadership approaches in order to dealwith change has been mentioned in this report (Palmer and et. al., 2016). LO1Comparison of various changes on an organization's strategy and operations Organizational structure is the framework which defines various ways in whichorganisational activities are to be carried in order to achieve organizational goals. Theseactivities includes responsibilities, duties, roles and supervision. In addition to this, flow ofinformation within an organisation is also included in this. ZARA and PRIMARK is the chosen company for this case. ZARA is a Spanish fashionretailer company based in Arterio in Galicia. In the year 1975 it was founded by Rosalia Meraand Amancio Ortega. Lean organizational structure is used by the managers of ZARA, as itmainly focuses on high performance of organisation. Along with this, PRIMARK is an Irishfashion retail company. Its headquarter is located in Dublin and a subsidiary of ABF. In June19669, its first store was founded by Arthur Ryan. Because of its different level of hierarchy,company adopt tall structure. Along with this, company follows decentralized system forperforming its operating activities. Comparison between ZARA and PRIMARK on the basis of various drivers of change areas follows:
BasisZARAPRIMARKTechnological Change In order to modify orderingprocess company uses point-of-sale (POS) system. Further,to check the availability oflatest designs of products onregularbasis,companyimplement personal digitalassistant. Also online market islaunched by company in orderto make shopping easy fortheir customers. In order to make designerdresses in less time with highquality products, company startusing latest technology. As aresult company reduces theirdefects and increase theirprofitability. For maintainingsustainabilityatthecompetitivemarketplacecompany needs to upgrade itstechnology according to thechangingenvironment.Without launching an onlinesites, company can reduce itsprofitability as well as marketshare as compared to theircompetitors. Technology Adopted Company adopted mobileaugmented reality app as apromotional tool in 120 stores.Along with this, company usea technology which is“location intelligence”. Withthe help of this technologycompany can easily trackfootfall in stores. Company have implementedvarious software's in order tomaintain the performance ofthe company. According to thetechnologicalchange,company adopt differentsoftware's,theseareperformancemanagementsoftware and many more. Structural Change It has gone for verticalintegration with manufacturersto introduce new products inIn order to increase its overallsales revenue company expandits business in US and
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