Leading and Managing Change - Doc

Understanding and Leading
Change

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................2
TASK 1 ...........................................................................................................................................3
P1 Compare different organizational examples where there has been an impact of changes on
an organization's strategy and operations...............................................................................3
P2 Evaluate the ways in which internal and external drives of change affects leadership, team
and individual behaviour in an organisation..........................................................................6
P3 Evaluate measure that can be taken to minimise negative impact of changes on
organisation behaviour ..........................................................................................................8
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................9
P4 Explain different barriers for changes and determine how it influence leadership decision
making in AEGON ................................................................................................................9
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................11
Covered in PPT.....................................................................................................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................16
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................17

INTRODUCTION
In today's time it is necessary for each and every organization to understand and evaluate
changes in a firm, so that they make strategies according to the situation. It is essential to
analysis changes because by it firm can identify and understand issues which they may face in
future time and make plans and strategies to avoid and overcome it. Organization selected for
this assignments is AEGON which is founded in 1983 and headquartered in Hague, Netherlands
(Kotter, 2012). They offer their financial services worldwide such as life insurance, pensions
and assets management. Their major operations and functions done in the United State, the
Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Covered points in this project are numbers of
organizational examples which impact on organizational strategy and operations, Along with this
it explain internal and external drive of changes which affect leadership, steps to minimise
negative effects of changes and in last it cover different leadership approaches so that company
can made deal in effective manner.
TASK 1
P1 Compare different organizational examples where there has been an impact of changes on an
organization's strategy and operations
In today senior most of the business organization are conducting their business operations
and functions with goal of earning profit and growth or for welfare for the society. In respective
case AEGON that is a multinational life insurance, pension and assets management firm plan to
become a well known brand in worldwide but government imposes some barriers which directly
impact negatively on respective firm profit margins (Doppelt, 2017). So in order to understand
changes which affect functions and operations of AEGON and competitor Aviva Plc, respective
company do evaluation of both the companies which is given below:-
Changes AEGON Aviva Plc.
Structure Organizational structure of the
AEGON is in hierarchy structure in
which there are different level such
as top level, middle level and lower
level. All information and guideline
are follow from these levels. But
Aviva Plc. Organizational
structure is hierarchical in past
time but they decide to change
in it and they acquire flat
structure in which employees
communicate to each other,