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Understanding and Leading Change Impacts

   

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UNDERSTANDING ANDLEADING CHANGE
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TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1LO 1.................................................................................................................................................1P1. Different organisational examples where there has been an impact of change on strategyand operations of M&S................................................................................................................1LO 2.................................................................................................................................................3P2. Evaluating the ways in which internal and external drivers of change affect leadership,team and individual behaviours within M&S..............................................................................3P3. Evaluating measures that can be taken to minimise the negative impacts of change onorganisational behaviour..............................................................................................................7LO 3.................................................................................................................................................9P4. Different barriers for change and the way they influence leadership decision-making inorganisational context..................................................................................................................9LO 4...............................................................................................................................................11P5. Different leadership approaches to deal with change in a range of organizational contexts...................................................................................................................................................11CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14
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LIST OF FIGURESFigure 1: Kurt Lewin's Model..........................................................................................................6Figure 2: Burke-Litwen model........................................................................................................7Figure 3: Force Field Analysis......................................................................................................10Figure 4: Kotter's Change Model...................................................................................................12
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INTRODUCTIONIn the present scenario, intense competition is there in every industry and firms are facingthe biggest issue of dealing with change as environment in which they are operating is highlydynamic. Several problems are being faced by companies that come with initiating andimplementing change at workplace in which the most common is of leading people (Doppelt,2017). Present report will discuss about different ways in which change impacts on anorganisation’s strategy and operations with evaluating the influence of drivers of change onorganisational behaviour. Apart from that, the way barriers to change influence leadershipdecision making will be studied along with applying a range of leadership approaches to achange initiative. All these concepts associated with understanding and leading change will bediscussed with reference to Marks and Spencer which is one of the leading retail firms based inthe UK that is bringing large scale changes in business.LO 1P1. Different organisational examples where there has been an impact of change on strategy and operations of M&SImpact of change on the strategy and operations of Marks and Spencer can be understoodthrough different examples of organisation which are given as below:New strategic directions – There can be number of positive effects on business when acompany bring some changes in the procedures. Similarly, at the time when M&S createdchange in its working procedure, it helped the operations to run in smoother way and alsoassisted strategy in terms of adapting with the alterations in legal environment as well asin the markets where it is operating (Hillson and Murray-Webster, 2017). Cost effectiveness – With the help of implementing changes like using new methods andtechniques, company can make new strategies which will require less but smart efforts ofemployees and lead them to perform more effectively and cost efficiently. Further, M&Scan make strategy to enter in a new market and segment to reclaim its former growthrates.Internal employee resistance – However, it is not compulsory that always the impacts ofchanges will prove to be positive for business as while bringing changes at workplace,the most common issue being faced by firms is of employee resistance (Cornett,1
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