Leading Change: Impact, Barriers, and Approaches - Report

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of change management within organizations, focusing on the impact of change on strategy and operations, with a comparative study of Rolex and Tag Heuer. It explores how internal and external factors affect leadership, teams, and individuals, emphasizing the importance of leadership in navigating change. The report details measures to minimize the negative impact of change, such as financial resources, coordination, and training. It also examines barriers to change and their influence on leadership decision-making. Furthermore, the report discusses various leadership approaches for effectively dealing with organizational change, offering practical insights into fostering adaptability and resilience in a dynamic business environment. The analysis includes specific examples and case studies to illustrate key concepts and provide actionable recommendations for leading and managing change successfully.

UNDERSTANDING AND
LEADING CHANGE

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................4
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................4
P1. Impact of changes on organisation’s strategy and operations..............................................4
P2. Ways in which internal and external factors affect leadership, team and individuals..........5
P3 Measures which help in minimising impact of change..........................................................7
Task 2...............................................................................................................................................8
P4 Different barriers which affect change and leadership decision making...............................8
Task 3.............................................................................................................................................10
P5 Various leadership approaches which help to deal with change..........................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12
Online.............................................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
In this competitive world, it is required for the organisation to deal with change in
environment. Environment of market continuously changes with time and affects the operational
functions of company in various ways. Firm has to adapt such changes in business so that they
can able to cope up with competition and make themselves stable in market. The report is based
on comparison in between two companies and the way they deal with change happening in
market scenario (Alkahtani, 2011). Company over which report is on ROLEX and TAG HEUER
which is a wrist watch firm and make their customer satisfied with their product and service.
Report will discuss about various drivers which bring change and affects the working of firms.
Measures which help in minimising the negative impacts on entity will be discussed here.
Different barriers of change and the way they influence leadership decision with applying
various approaches of leadership to deal with change in organisation will also be studied.
TASK 1
P1. Impact of changes on organisation’s strategy and operations
Organisational change is that which is being affected by the variations in market. Hence,
it is a process of changing the working criteria like (change in policy, procedure and sometimes,
aims as well with methods), it is required by firm to face changes like challenge which make
them to work hard to overcome all in proper manner. Therefore, after Brexit companies are using
different technology in effective way so that different firms can provide their helping hand in the
development of economy of country. For the development of their country they are using high
classed technology so that ROLEX and Tag HEUER can compete in market and can bring
various changes in strategy and operation which also help firm to earn higher profits. Changes in
market has to be met in right context.
The two organisations and effect of change on them are as follows:
ROLEX
ROLEX is a company which is in the market for so many decades and serving millions of
people with their high quality products and services in a great manner. Firm produces wrist
watches which are of quality in nature and high priced. Company mainly manufactures luxury
watches for rich class people. But change in market is that which also bring change and variation

in preferences and demand of customer in high criteria, it is there that company has to meet their
likes and dislikes in proper manner (Anderson and Anderson, 2010).
Example: ROLEX has to work according to the change in environment and should also
adapt new technologies so that they can become able to cope up with change in market with
bringing innovative products and services which can satisfy demand of consumers. ROLEX is
already on moderate situation where they are bringing most of their innovative watches so that
they can attract prospect customers as well. Firm is trying to reduce the cost of production and
utilizing resources in an effective way which is providing them profit and achievement of goals
and objective.
Change in strategy and operations
Change affects the strategy and operations of company. Firm itself tries to reduce the
wastage and manufacturing maximum output with minimum input of resources so that they can
earn high profits with less expenses. Organisation has to make such decision and strategies
which help the entity to face many challenges and situations so that they can work accordingly in
a proper manner. Research of market thus helps company to make those decisions in making
strategy which can help in motivating the employees so that they can work in a great structure
(Branson, 2010).
TAG HEUER:
TAG HEUER is a company that is best in their products and making customers happy
with their products and services. Products of wrist watch can be purchased by anyone as the
price is reasonable and millions of people can buy such easily. They also produce luxury items of
watches with general wrist clock for many people. Change in market also bring changes in
working criteria of company as they influence their employees to adapt changes and work
according to such so that target can be achieved in correct way.
Example: Firm is being affected with the change in environment and TAG HEUER is
such which accepts variations in a proper way and try to work accordingly. Changes in market
make entity to bring changes in their working method as well as somewhere they try to reduce
cost of production so that they can go with the flow of earning profit (Brown, 2012).
Change in strategy and operation
TAG HEUER is a company which makes their decisions after having information of
market and they always produce those products and services which can satisfy the needs and

demands of customer in a proper manner. Changes affect the decision of company for strategy
and operations. Company chooses best method to cope up with change and can bring
effectiveness in business environment and entity can work in efficient way.
P2. Ways in which internal and external factors affect leadership, team and individuals
Leaders are those which provide direction, guidance and instruction through leadership to
group and individual in firm. Therefore, team work is a combination of two words i.e. team and
work (Brown, B.C., 2012). Leadership is that which leads an individual and group of people in
right direction so that effective working can be seen in a proper manner. Leaders help
organisation in creating vision in eyes of employees for future and according to same, they
perform in a great way. Along with that, leaders motivate and influence their employees to work
hard and accomplish target and aim in perfect way. Therefore effectiveness in working can be
there when task and work is done in team as it reduces chances of redundancy and times
completion of work can be there as well. Internal and external factors which affect the
leadership, individuals and team are as follows:
Internal factors:
Internal factors are those which affect the business from inside and such changes affect
making of decision for whole company as one in great way. It is required by the firm to
understand those changes in market and has to face such with great efficiency so that firm can be
able to work in a proper manner. Internal factors are as:
Wastage: Company has to make reduction in wastage of their resources and use such in a
proper manner. Wastage of resources increase the cost of production and firm tries to cover such
cost from customers by setting high price in company. Therefore, customers are rationale in
nature and they don't pay huge amount on products and services which affect the firm in their
profits. For such, company has to reduce defects, errors and wastage of resources so that they can
manufacture high quality items and bring satisfaction in the minds of customers (Carrington,
Deppeler and Moss, 2010).
Employee morale: Change in market affects company in various ways which also
includes the morale of employees. As with change the use of technology and working criteria
also change and they have to use new technology and structure of working which bring their
motivation level higher and they can work in effective way. In ROLEX, the senior manager and
leader try their level best to influence and motivate employees to adapt changes in entity which

help them to attain their goals and objectives effectually. Leaders provide them various rewards
and remuneration scenario which makes them able to to face any challenge and situation.
External factor:
Those factor which affect the function and operation of business from outside are known
as external factor. These factor affect company in various ways and affects in huge criteria which
make firm to choose another working structure and strategies. Although it is required to cope up
with changes in business. Some of external factors is as follows:
Competition: ROLEX is company who is a brand and millions of people buy their
product and service with its name only. But there are many competitors who affects business in
different criteria it is required to face such challenges and competition (Doppelt, 2017). The
TAG HEUER wrist watch company is competitor of ROLEX as firm produces watches in luxury
and normal criteria both and company also keep their price lower then ROLEX, which create a
situation of competition and ROLEX work in effective manner so that they can face such
challenges and situation in proper manner.
Customer satisfaction: Firm try their level best to satisfy customer in effective way so
that they can become existing customer of firm for longer period. Market changes consumer
demands and needs also changes and it is required by company to meet such. Although entity
work hard and receive information of market and make product and service according to such so
that they can satisfy their demand and needs in proper manner (Fagerström and Salmela, 2010).
Although, these external and internal factors affect company in various ways like
(changes in environment, change in customer preferences and demands, and bring risk etc.), all
of such and many more criteria are there which affect business in great manner and thus
company has to make measures and produce decision and strategies which will help entity to
overcome all issues.
P3 Measures which help in minimising impact of change
ROLEX company is such which bring many measures to minimise or reduce the impact
of change in environment in business. Somewhere various impacts are there which bring down
effectiveness of business and affects them to attain their goal and objective. Various decision and
strategies of firm also get affected with change in outer and internal environment. The measures
which help in reduction are as follows:

Financial Resources: Having a strong financial base helps to achieve business resources
as well as it will help in reducing the impacts of the changing environment in the business. A
weak financial base will lead to lack of resources as well as will affect the nature,scope and other
prospective of the work which may affect the moral of the staff .
Coordination: Various department of company should work with collaboration and
coordination in business so that effective working can be there. If change in working
environment is there then coordination among employee and every level accept change in easily
manner and working together help directly to entity in order to achieve their goal and objective.
To be have a successful business it is required to have a coordination among everyone, such
thing reduce impact of change.
Training: ROLEX is such who can overcome their impact of change in company by
providing effective training to their employees, which help firm to work in better manner.
Change in market also bring changes in strategy and decision of firm and with this criteria
employees does not accept variations in their work. To remove such hurdle training and
development program is better, as in this each and every individual person of entity will learn
skill, knowledge and abilities which bring confidence and motivation in them to accept changes
in environment and to work according to such to have cope up with market change (Fullan,
2014).
Talk to employees: Human resource is base of any organisation and thus it is required to
manage them properly so that effective working can be done in perfect way. Firm and their
management has to interact with employees about making innovation in their product according
to market change and demand. Influencing and motivating them in right format and getting
approval for change help company to use new technology and compete with other firms and thus
it makes to reduce the impact of change in business and attainment of target or aim can be done.
Research: Many other firms like ROLEX also goes with making a research of market in
effective way which help firm to collect information and data, which can be helpful in making a
effective decision and strategy and thus make firm to perform in better way. Research collects
the information in better manner which help in making a effective strategy that directly make
firm to perform and work in right direction which directly help entity to earn higher profits and
achievement of goal and objective (Malenfant, 2010).

Technology: ROLEX has to use new technologies in manufacturing and for other work
as well. Change in environment is also made by technology and their innovation. Proper
technology help firm to work effectively and create innovation in their working criteria.
Technology help in minimising cost of production and also help in reducing wastage of
resources. The change in organisation is that which affects whole organisation as one and this
has to be overcome by entity in effective way which make them to attain their goal and objective
in efficient way.
Task 2
P4 Different barriers which affect change and leadership decision making.
The change is something which has to be cope up by company so that they can bring
effectiveness in their working criteria (Parsons and Cornett, 2011). Barriers is that which bring
hurdles in between the employees and make entity to get stuck somewhere in work. Barriers
always play an affective role which come in between to create problem for organisation and
make them to wind-up their business. Thus organisation is such who work hard and make their
employees motivated so that they can work in effective way and such risk and barrier can be
overcome easily. The different barriers which affect change is as follows:
Lack of employee involvement: The most common mistake a firm do is not involving
employees in their working criteria. Workers always has fear of change till they have not choose
in change process in company. Although it is likely to tell even most likely member of
employees will be going to resist change. Change can be done when including employees to
listen and accounting them that change which is brought that is being done for good sake, which
make them comfortable and ready to accept such change in new development in within
organisation.
Lack effective communication: There are few company who just announces that change
will take place in firm and employees has to make adjustment and make themselves ready to
adapt the change in working criteria, which leads to lack of effective communication. What and
how changes will take place is also not communicated with the employees. It is a responsibility
of firm to communicate with their employees in correct format regarding the change. This make
employee to make them feel that they are part of entity (Salmela, Eriksson and Fagerström,
2012).

Bad culture planning: Therefore the team of planning sometimes does not know that it
will affect people of organisation while working on change. The team only focus on making
policy, work area responsibilities and job responsibilities and somewhere ignore that it will affect
the function of organisation. It is required by firm to overlook the feelings of employees and
make effective policy and procedure for them as well.
Complexity: In company a times comes, when the team of planning start making or
developing complex process and implement all such complex criteria. This also includes
complex system and products. Although this contribute to barrier in change just because it
becomes very complex for employees and members to understand. This all such hurdle can be
overcome by using technology and using various things to fast growth or organisational
development with complexity (Suchman, 2011).
All such affect the leadership decision making effectively in organisation. Therefore
company does not involve their employees while making decision in organisation thus such thing
leads that employees does not get ready to adapt such changes and different things. The change
affects the decision making in various ways, therefore it also affects in attaining the
organisational goal and objective in effective manner. Change affects internally and externally
both in the business as this has to be overcome by companies in proper manner so that they can
compete with other firms in better way. ROLEX tries to face such changes in effective way, but
times changes the preferences and demands of customer also changes as to met their demand and
needs so that satisfaction can be provided to them in efficient way.
Task 3
P5 Various leadership approaches which help to deal with change.
There are various leadership approaches are there which help firm to deal with the change
made in organisation. Leadership style help firm to manage their employees to adapt the changes
in environment and work according to such in effective way. Leaders motivate and influence
their worker and employee in such a way which make them to accept the changes in proper
manner and this makes to work over new methods and technologies which help them to reduce
their hard work and work effectively even though (Hallinger and Heck, 2011).
The leadership approach which help to deal with the changes in environment are as
follows:

CHOOSE ANY OF THEM GIVE A FEW COMPANY EXAMPLE (ATLEAST 2 EXAMPLES)
ROLEX is such company which is stable in market from last so many years it can also be
described as firm is on moderate situation where they are earning good amount of profit in
competitive world and this make them to attain their goal and objective.
Leadership which get result: The leaders use such type of leadership which deal with
change and thus it is being used in such a way that it should provide the result to organisation. In
this particular approach or method of leadership it includes six steps as well which help such
concept to work on effectively. Although this leads to focus on goal and objective and work hard
and work according to requirement and attain their goal and objective in proper manner as well.
Example: The Leaders in company bring innovative and ideas and creativity in working which
make employees to work in effective manner so that firm can attain their goal and objective.
ROLEX is brand and earning great amount of revenue and for such they are using various kind
of unique things so that quality can be brought up. Moreover, leadership thus help in getting
target.
Situational leadership: In this kind of leadership style the leader see what kind of
change it is and uses leadership style which is best suited for it and to overcome such change in
effective manner. The leaders teaches and motivate their employees in such a way which makes
them to adapt the changes and work according to such. Whenever the employee get stuck in their
working and need help to overcome such. The leaders develop those skill and enthusiasm in
workers which help them to cover all such scenario in their own. Employees gets ready to face
any challenge and situation in firm which make company to attain their goal and objective
(Thomas, 2013).
Example: It is on the leaders and management of company to use various leadership style in
different situation so that they can manage and handle the problems and issues so that smooth
functioning of work can be done. Situational leadership are those who has a great mind and they
use their leadership style in hurdle to have a proper working.
Framework leadership: Company introduces the framework of leadership which make
them to work in right direction and thus it also make them to work effectively. This also help in
bringing the positive difference in organisation although it understand the change and firm try to
make relation in between employees so that coordination can be made and such can help in

making creation and it also help in creating with common sense. Therefore all these things are
there which make them to perform better and entity can achieve their goal and objective in
proper way. Framework leadership help company to receive an effective working although this
kind of leadership style bring smoothness in work related context of organisation. Business make
effective and efficient policy to formulate on employees so that they can work in right manner.
Transformational leadership: This kind of leadership is used for day to day transaction
of business in proper manner. Thus leaders are which make their employee so much motivated
and enthusiastic so that their workers can complete their work on time and to cope up with
change in proper way. Transformational leadership makes firm to use their day to day transaction
in better manner and thus it makes entity in order to attain their target and aim in best way.
All such these leadership style of leaders help them to deal with change in effective way.
Leaders are those who transform their employees and workers in such a way that they get ready
to accept changes in environment in proper manner. Leadership is that which help company to
deal with changes whether they are internal or external in factor (Bingham and Main, 2010).
CONCLUSION
The above report concludes as, change is that which affects the company from internally
and externally and in great way. Although it was required to handle such change sin proper
manner and to see how these changes affects the company and how firm can handle such change
in organisation. The report has discussed about different company and how they deal with
environment changes in market. External and internal factors which affected individual and team
working in firm, and what measures taken to reduce such factor in business. Apart from all such
it has also included like what barriers were there for change and how it influenced leadership
decision, although various leadership approach is applied to deal with the change in proper
manner. In last, change has to be there in firm to compete with other firm in market and earn
high profitability.

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