Understanding & Leading Change

Understanding & Leading
Change

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1. Compare various organisational model and their striking of change...............................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
P2. The structure in which internal and outer drivers of alteration affect leadership, team and
single behaviours....................................................................................................................3
P3. Evaluate measures which can be used to minimise perverse impacts of change on
organisational behaviour........................................................................................................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
P4. Various obstruction to change and find out how they cause leading decision making....7
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................9
P5. Different leadership approaches to dealing with a range of organisational context........9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
When a company to make development and enhancement in its business operations and
activities, they require to understand and measure modifications within organisation and market
so that they can formulate plan of action according to that. It also assist the firm in understanding
and finding out difficulty that they can endure in forthcoming time and by it they can frame
strategies which assist in getting over and obviating problems in effective way (Al-Haddad and
Kotnour, 2015). The company taken for this written document is Aviva which is incorporated in
2000 and its headquarter in London, UK. It is the ample all-purpose insurer and a leading life
and pensions provider. There are 30,021 employees who are making their contribution in running
the business of company in different nations of the world. Topics which are defined in this report
are example of companies and how its activities and plan of action impacted, intrinsic and
extrinsic drivers of change that affect leadership and phases by which the company can reduce
unfavourable impact. Several leadership approaches will also explain that assist in dealing with
issues in efficacious way.
TASK 1
P1. Compare various organisational model and their striking of change
In current era, the main reason in term of organising business operation and activity is to
gain profitability and growth in market shares or for work for social term. Accordant to
respective case Aviva is a general insurer, life insurance, pension and fund management
organisation. In UK, the national authorities compel certain obstruction that instantly and
indirectly influence to the respective firm's profit and market share (Bernstein and Linsky, 2016).
Fro acknowledging the effective condition of alterations that impacting activities and operation,
Aviva organise relation reasoning with its rival the Hartford financial group. Comparison of both
organisation are mentioned as beneath:
Basis Aviva Hartford Financial group
Structure In Aviva, the firm is
organising their business in
hierarchical organisational
structure in which there are
The Hartford is organising
their business functions and
operations by following
hierarchical organisational
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several phases and level like
upper , middle and lower level.
Now the firm want to reach
upper level to lower level at
the time of following several
other phases which is time
taking (Byers, 2017). So the
management of the respective
decided to modify their
organisational structure into
flat. The major reason towards
this change is to make
development in execution and
productiveness of workforce.
In addition to it, they want to
minimise time period which is
consumed for devising any
determination. In this manner,
they able to take decision
become easy as well as
employees feel satisfaction
because they are getting
effective treatment at similar
level as per division and
grading.
structure in which they are
suffering from various issues
and they take decision to make
modifications and changes in
their organisation structure in
term of hierarchical to flat
structure. With the help of it,
the workforce of company can
make communication with
each other in efficacious
manner which encourages and
make development in emotions
of connection in them to the
company. When the workforce
of the respective company feel
motivated, they organise their
work and task in adequate way
which assist in minimising
operation and production cost.
In addition to it, they capable
to minimise waste during
process (Coghlan and Shani,
2015). By it, they able to gain
more profit margins, maximise
market share and employee
turnover will also minimise.
Strategies The main plan of action, to
apply and utilisation of flat
structure in company, is directs
to encourage workforce who
instantly assist them in
The management of the
respective firm formulate plan
and plan of actions by which
they can minimise waste and
organise their operations in
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