Managing Change: Barriers, Force Field Analysis & Leadership at Tesco

This presentation delves into understanding and leading change, focusing on barriers to change, force field analysis, and leadership approaches, particularly within the context of Tesco. It identifies various barriers to change such as inadequate communication, ineffective leadership, and fear of the unfamiliar. The presentation utilizes force field analysis to examine driving and restraining forces, including customers, human resources, technological factors, ineffective planning, and governmental regulations. It then explores situational and transformational leadership approaches to manage change, emphasizing the importance of Kotter's 8-step change management model for successful implementation. The analysis concludes that situational and transformational leadership styles, combined with Kotter's model, can effectively navigate change, motivate employees, and deliver organizational improvements at Tesco. Desklib provides a platform to access this and other solved assignments for students.

Understanding and leading
change
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Table of contents
 Introduction
 Different barriers of change
 Force field analysis
 Application of force field analysis
 Different leadership approaches to deal with change
 Extent to which leadership approach can deliver organizational change
 Effectiveness of leadership approaches and change management model
 Conclusion
 References

Introduction
 The presentation is focused on identifying the manners in which barriers to change impact
leadership decision making
 It will analyse driving and restraining forces and will evaluate how these forces influences
decision making
 The presentation will also throw light on varied leadership approaches being adopted by
managers and leaders of Tesco
 Different change management models and theories will be explored

Different barriers for change
 Inadequate communication strategy
 Ineffective leadership
 Fear of unfamiliar
 Involvement of employees

Force field analysis
Forces that are driving change in the company
Driving forces
Customers
Human resource
Technological factors
Effective leadership
Forces that are restraining change in the
company
Restraining forces
Environmental impacts
Ineffective planning
Absence of communication strategy
Government legislations

Application of force field analysis in
meeting objectives
Vision The Company is planning to have large scale changes and thus, it is important to analyse how it
will impact the strategy and operations of the firm.
Driving forces Customers, human resource, effective leadership and technological factors
Restraining forces Ineffective planning, environmental impact, communication strategy and government legislation
Decision The company should go for large scale changes within the strategy and processes, however they need to
concentrate on communication strategy and must have effective planning in place. Changes should take
place considering the governmental legislations and within minimum influence on the environment

Different leadership approaches to deal
with change
For the purpose of management of change in the organization Tesco, situational and
transformational leadership approach can be incorporated:
Situational leadership approach

Continued..
Transformational leadership approach

Extent to which leadership approach can
deliver organizational change
For successfully implementing change within the company, the manager should make use of
Kotter’s 8 step change management model

Effectiveness of leadership approaches and
change management model
 Situational and transformational leadership style are very effective as through
this the company will be able to control the results
 Leadership approaches also motivates the workers to work far more than their
competence which will again support the firm in delivering effective
organizational change
 The Kotter’s change management model involves step by step guidance and
description for easy implementation of change

CONCLUSION
 Thus it can be concluded that there are many barriers to change which can impact the
change management process at Tesco
 The report has significantly determined different driving and restraining forces
 The leadership approaches and change management model can be applied to deal with the
change taking place in Tesco

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