Understanding and Leading Change in Tesco and Sainsbury

UNDERSTANDING AND
LEADING CHANGE

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Different organizational examples with impact of change on organization strategy...................3
Real-world examples of change by the organization...................................................................6
Different barriers to change.........................................................................................................8
Intended change in the organization..........................................................................................10
Drivers for the change and how it will help the company.........................................................11
Model used to implement the change........................................................................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Understanding and leading change help participants to deal with problems which comes
with implementing change. In such program they can examine change process psychological,
political as well as organizational issue can be generated. Sainsbury is the public limited
company which belongs to the retail industry, it was established in 1869 in Holborn, London ,
UK. Tesco is the public limited company which also belongs to retail industry and it is the
Largest multinational grocery retailer and situated in England. It was founded in 1919 in
Hackney, England, UK.
This report will discuss the comparison of Tesco and Sainsbury and their impact of
change in the organizational strategy, also the ways of internal and external drivers of change
affect. It will identify the ways in which internal and external drivers of change affect the
leadership, team and department and individual in organization. Apart from this it will evaluate
measure which would be taken to minimize the impact of change on organization behaviour by
using the appropriate theories of change management. It would analyse the barriers of change
and determine how they leadership decision-making in Tesco and Sainsbury. At last, it would
measure the different leadership approaches to deal with change in both the organizations
(Nelson-Brantley and et.al., 2018).
MAIN BODY
LO1
Different organizational examples with impact of change on organization strategy
Radical changes has affected Tesco as the adopted fore meeting the development of
installing of self checkout machines for reducing the queries in the stores. The new technology
which other supermarket have made investments make their customer happy and reduced their
time for standing in queues. While providing the good choice of strategy it affects in the term of
current challenge as decrease in product and service quality and failure to make decision over
other emerging trends and culture in several countries. For such Tesco has planned for long term
for its operations to hit zero carbon target by 2035 with the help of renewable technology. They
also had made significant change for growing market mainly in UK. Tesco has released click and
collect service online to meet and adapt in their new change which would be easy to customer

and convenient for Tesco to enhance their position. Tesco strategy is to manipulate elements of
marketing to form key benefits which reflect positively on sales (Nadim and Singh, 2019).
The process of the company seeks to achieve the maximum profits and placing the
marketing campaigns for reflecting shopping seasons which rebrand the famous product to
increase sales. The operations of business interact with traditional marketing in the form of
sponsorships and events. Operations in their business need people coordination, management and
empowerment. The procedure of Tesco is to ensure the service quality whereas it provides front
service staff for directly interacting with customers. They process for employee training as well
as other competitive packages for retaining staffs. Similarly, ion current situation it offers
Colleague Privileged Card and scheme to benefit employee to take advantage from their product
and offerings.
The drive of change for Tesco could be growth opportunities, customer demand,
technological innovation, strategy changes, new product and service etc. These changes reflect
positively as sudden changes are used with purpose and motive to grow the business functioning
much better.
Pestle analysis of Tesco
Political Factors
Being the one of the largest retailer in world, Tesco should follow the several regulations
to make sure about the safety of products. While operating in various countries it is important to
consider changing political circumstance.
Economic Factors
They must keep an eye on economic change which occur in country in which it operates
whereas there are aspects which affect the revenue, distribution, sales and profit. So they must be
aware about the different kind of taxation policy.
Social Factors
By planning out and facilitating the needs of food product demanded by customers
depends on the social influence. These choice depends on over the various culture aspects which
people have lived all his life, the trend in changing culture socially influences.
Technological Factors
It is important for Tesco to stay in today time and make changes in their technological
aspects with experimenting several aspects of retail provide success in some endeavours.