Analysis of Change Management and Leadership Report

This report examines the critical aspects of change management and its impact on leadership within an organization. It highlights the importance of adapting to a dynamic business environment and the role of leadership in navigating change. The report identifies barriers to change, such as lack of employee involvement and inadequate planning, and discusses their influence on leadership decision-making. It uses the example of Marks & Spencer to illustrate the positive and negative outcomes of change implementation, as well as the challenges faced. Furthermore, the report suggests strategies to minimize the negative effects of change and maximize profitability, providing valuable insights for effective organizational transformation. This report is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of change management and leadership, offering practical solutions for businesses striving to achieve their objectives.

Understanding and Leading Change
(P4)

Introduction
The present business environment is changing at a high speed and it is
crucial that change is maintained on regular basis so that the competition
can be faced with equal level of efficiency and comparative advantage is
achieved. There are range of options with the business through which
the change can be brought and every time a modification is made has its
own positive and negative outcomes.

Barriers Of Change And Determine How They Influence
Leadership Decision Making
Change management is important in organization and play crucial
role main reason of implementing alteration in organization is business
environment. because it is dynamic in nature and make several
modifications these can be by both the factors internal and external.
implementing and managing change is responsibility of leader in
business.

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Barriers of change management and their influence on leadership
decision making is explained below: -
Lack of employee involvement – This is most common and
foremost barriers to change management because employees are facing
fear of change management. For this they have to do work hard as also
personnel’s think that in most of the situations that alteration is not
beneficial for organization and its working.

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Bad culture shift planning – There is planning team in company who
plan for entire activity of business but at the time of change management
they don't have any idea about it that how it will effect employees who are
working with them. The same team is always fail in decision making
related to intuitions and feelings.

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Organization Complexity – Mainly complexity is related to
complex procedure of doing work, products and system which is
contributing as a barrier in change management because for every
member working in company is not easy to understand difficult things.

Conclusion
From the above report this has been summarized that Marks and
Spencer has implemented different changes in its working
conditions which has resulted in both positive and negative results
for the business. It has experienced growth in its sales and on the
other suffered loss due to variations in the expected results.
Different barriers were faced which come across while bringing
alteration in the present code of conduct. There are range of models
that can be used to minimize the effect of change for M&S so that
profit margins are kept high and targets are met.

References
Branson, C. M., 2010. Leading educational change wisely. Rotterdam:
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Carrington, S., Deppeler, J. and Moss, J., 2010. Cultivating teachers'
knowledge and skills for leading change in schools. Australian
journal of teacher education. 35(1). pp.1-13.

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