Overcoming Barriers to Change: Impact on Leadership Decisions

This report explores the challenges of change management and its impact on leadership decisions, focusing on the factors that impede organizational change. The report begins by introducing the concept of change and its importance in a competitive market, emphasizing the need for businesses to adapt to both internal and external factors. It then presents a Force Field Analysis, outlining a step-by-step approach to identify and evaluate the forces driving and resisting change. The analysis includes planning for change, identifying internal and external factors, assessing resistance factors, assigning scores, and applying the findings. The report then discusses various barriers to change and their influence on decision-making, highlighting the need for effective strategies to overcome these obstacles. Finally, it concludes by emphasizing the importance of proactive planning and strategic management in navigating the complexities of change within an organization. The report provides valuable insights into the practical application of change management principles.

TASK 2
P4: Barriers of change and their
influence on leadership decision making

Content
• Introduction
• Force Field Analysis
• Barriers of Implementing changes
• Conclusion
• References

Introduction
Every organisation irrespective of their size whether small,
medium or large wants to survive in competitive market for
longer period of time and it can be possible when they regular
made changes in their business structure in order to deal with
complex situation arises due to internal and external factors.
But there are some barriers which restrict them to adopt
changes in more profitable manner due to which the
management required to make an effective decision and plans

Force Field Analysis
Force Field Analysis which helps them in identifying the
factors which makes negative as well as positive impact
on the organisation.
It includes different steps to identify the factors which are
given as below:

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Step 1: Plan for change
In the first step, the manager of M&S formulate an
effective decision and plan regarding the changes to be
made in future in order to deal with complex environment.
Their main aim of such implementing changes is to capture
large market share and achieve competitive advantage.

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Step 2: Factors of change
There are basically two factors such as internal and external
factors which brings lots of challenges and problem for an
organisation in maintain their existing stable position in
market due top which required changes need to be
implemented. Internal factors includes employees
behaviour, old technology etc. whereas external factors
includes political, economical and competitions.

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Step 3: Factors which are against of change
The factors which affect the changes made by an
organisation need to be identified and carefully evaluated.
Internal factors includes employee’s attitude, behaviour etc.
whereas external factors includes government laws and
legislations.

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Step 4: Providence of scores
In this, the management should require to provide score of
changes after analysing the profitable outcome achieved in
future with an objective of giving more emphasis on such
changes in order to make an effective plans regarding
successfully implementation.

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Step 5: Analyse and application
This step includes identification of risk which may arise
due to different factors which drives managers to make an
effective strategies and plans to control such risk and
achieve desired outcomes.

Different barriers of change and their impact on decision making
There are number of barriers which bring difficulties for
company to implement changes in their business
structure in more effective manner so as to get profitable
outcomes. The management are responsible to identify
such barrier and accordingly eliminate them through
adopting various approaches.

Conclusion
It has been concluded from above that the management of
an organization should required to make an effective plans
and strategies in order to eliminate barriers which restrict
them to adopt suitable changes in their business structure.

REFERENCES
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