Leadership Approaches to Organizational Change and Development

This report examines the critical role of leadership in driving and managing organizational change. It explores various leadership styles, including autocratic, democratic, and transactional approaches, and analyzes their effectiveness in different contexts. The report highlights how leaders guide and direct employees, motivate them to embrace change, and facilitate decision-making processes. It also discusses how leadership styles influence employee engagement and the successful implementation of change initiatives. The report emphasizes that effective leadership is essential for navigating organizational transitions and achieving desired outcomes, with the democratic style being highlighted for its collaborative approach. Finally, the report concludes by referencing relevant academic sources to support its findings.

Understanding and leading
change

 There is a great role of leadership in implementing of change. This is because
leader are responsible for execution of change. They guide and direct employees
to work in effective way.
 Besides that, leader encourage staff as well because they resist to work with
change. Also, it becomes difficult for them to work in different way.
 The leadership style is as follows:
Different leadership approaches to deal with
changes

 Autocratic leadership style: It is a type of leadership style in which higher authority
and manager of the firm make all the decision without involving employees.
 Leader behavior is strict in this and he direct its team member for accomplishing
the goal. The members are not involved in taking decision thus their view and
suggestions are not taken for it..
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 Democratic leadership style: it is completely opposite of autocratic style as here
the leader of an organisation work with its team member and involve them in
making decision.
 Along with this, he motivate employees to work in a team and motivated. Thus,
view of employees are listened by leader and they are appreciated for their best
work.
 This support leader to bring positive changes within the firm. Along with this
employees feel motivated and company can new ideas regarding implementing
changes which help in easily adopting change as well.
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 Transactional leadership style: It is one of the effective approach in which leader
play significant role in the organisation. In this leader delegate work to its
employees according to their capability and skills.
 Further it also provides reward to its employees on their best performance and
punished if they made mistakes. Therefore, performance of employees is review
and they are promoted so that they can work more effectively for their firm.
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 It is evaluated that leadership style plays significant role in implementing
organizational change.
 By following of effective and suitable style it becomes easy for leader to deal with
change and employees.
 He is able to guide and direct them in effective way. Alongside, decision are taken
as per situation. For example- following of democratic leadership style allows
leader to engage staff in decision making.
Extent to which leadership approaches
deliver organisational change

 Thus, he takes their suggestion that how employee want to adopt change. Besides
that, with mutual understanding leader take decision and direct them to work to
apply change.
 Thus, there is no conflicts in it as decision is taken by both leader and employees.
Also, this style create a positive environment as team members work together with
leader to implement change.
 They both support each other and in this way change in successfully applied.
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Books and journals
 Mathu and et..al., 2016. Leading change towards sustainable green coal mining.
Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies.6(3).pp.1-24.
 O'Donnell, M. and et.al., 2015. Curriculum transformation: Leading change
through a research driven consultative model.
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