Evaluating HR's Role in Change Management at Sainsbury

This report analyzes the crucial role of Human Resources (HR) in managing change and shaping organizational design, using Sainsbury, a major UK grocery store, as a case study. It begins by defining change management and its application, supported by relevant theories and models. The report then explores the functions of HR in initiating change and fostering a positive environment for employee development and innovation. It evaluates different types of organizational changes, including strategic, transformational, and psychological changes and their impact. The report then critically examines the relationship between organizational design and change management, highlighting Sainsbury's collaborative working style and its role in facilitating adaptable attitudes towards change. Finally, the report offers recommendations for Sainsbury to improve its change management strategies, emphasizing the importance of adapting to market dynamics and incorporating collaborative working styles at all levels. The report concludes by summarizing the importance of HR in organizational success and its role in change management and design.

Unit 36 – Human
Resources – Values and
Contributions to
Organisational Success

INTRODUCTION
 Human resources are the set of people that helps the company to have the better
workforce in order to compete in the market.
 The current assignment is based on Sainsbury which is one of the largest multinational
grocery store in UK.
 This report will outline the meaning of change management with the use of theories
and models. Further this report will outline the role of HR in order to manage and have
better organizational design.
 This report will also put focus on the evaluation of different types of changes that can
impact the organizational design.
 At last this report will indicate the relationship between organizational design and
change management and recommendations as well.

Background of change management
by using theories and models
 Change management refers to the systematic approach that helps to deal with the
transformation of the company's goals, process and technologies.
 The aim of this change management is to implement the different strategies that used to
effect and have changes and helps them to adapt the changes (Galli, 2018).
 Sainsbury must have the change management strategies that helps them to adopt the
various changes that are arriving in the competitive market.

ROLE OF HR IN MANAGING CHANGE
AND ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN
 HR used to play an important role in order to manage the change by initiating the change
and serving best to the employees and customers in the market.
 The aim of HRM is to provide the positive environment which is conductive enough to have
improvement in skills and competences that helps to adopt innovation and changes from the
competitive market.
 The HR department used to perform the various functions that are associated with the
implementation of the new projects, tracking the major changes, serve best to the
employees, etc.

EVALUATING THE DIFFERENT TYPES
OF CHANGES THAT IMPACT
ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN
 Strategic change
 Transformationnal change
 Psychological change

Critically evaluating the relationship between the
organizational design and change management
with examples
 Sainsbury is a large scale organisation which constantly tries to incorporate the best way of working in the
organisation which enhances the organisational design.
 It has a collaborative working style which brings people from different department and hierarchy on the same
platform where they can work collaboratively to enhance the productivity and decision-making in the
organisation.
 As such team working or collaborative working enables best change management in the organisation where
people have an adaptable attitude, and they do not resist change.
 Organisational design is directly related to the change management of the organisation. Better the
organisational design it enables better change management

Recommendations to Sainsbury
 Sainsbury is a supermarket giant where new products are introduced now and then
which requires an optimum change management and in the organisation which
facilitates and immune business from any such change which is required to be made.
 Sainsbury can make so many changes just like Introducing a collaborative working
style in the organization at all levels in the business can be one such suggestion which
Sainsbury can adapt for the better performance of organization

CONCLUSION
 From the above report it is evaluated about the importance of having the human resources in
the organization.
 The report has evaluated about the change management by using the different theories and
models. between organizational design and change management with recommendations at last.
 Further the above report has also evaluated about the role of HR in order to manage the change
and design of company.
 Moreover, the report has explained about the types of changes that has impacted the
organizational design that is transformational and psychological change.
 Further it has also evaluated about the relationship

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