RQF Unit 17: Change Management and Leadership Styles at Toyota

This report analyzes change management within Toyota, examining the application of situational and systems leadership styles. It begins with an introduction to change management and then explores the specific leadership approaches used within Toyota. The report details how situational leadership, involving adapting leadership styles based on follower development levels, and systems leadership, which focuses on creating productive conditions at all levels, are implemented. The analysis covers how these leadership approaches contribute to organizational change, and concludes by emphasizing the importance of technological advancement and effective leadership strategies for managing change within Toyota. The report references several academic sources to support its findings.

CHANGE MANAGEMENT -
TOYOTA

TABLE OF CONTENT
1. INTRODUCTION
2. DIFFERENT STYLES OF LEADERSHIP USED WITHIN TOYOTA
3. SITUATIONAL LEADERSHIP
4. SYSTEMS LEADERSHIP
5. CONCLUSION
6. REFERENCES

INTRODUCTION
 Change management is a procedure and collective term of all approaches to support
and prepare individuals, teams and organisation for a change in company. This
presentation will describe various styles of leadership used within Toyota.

Different styles of leadership used within Toyota
1. Situational Leadership
2. Systems Leadership

Situational Leadership
 The approach of situational leadership provides Toyota with excellent opportunities to
develop and maintain a style of leadership which is effective and efficient at the same
time. Below mentioned are the ways in which this approach helps Toyota's leadership
and management:
1. Telling and Directing
2. Participating and Supporting
3. Selling and Coaching

Systems Leadership
 The system approaches of leadership refers to when the leaders of Toyota create such
conditions where people at all levels tend to work productively as per their potential.
Below mentioned are the ways in which systems leadership helps Toyota:
1. By organising the employee's mindset
2. Developing individual comprehension
3. Guiding

Extent to which leadership approach can deliver organizational
change
 Situational leadership takes place when a manager or leadership of Toyota adjusts his
style as per the development levels of his followers which he intends to influence. This
is a sophisticated style where a leader changes his style and it is not upon the follower
to adopt into the leader's style or not.
 The system approaches of leadership refers to when the leaders of Toyota create such
conditions where people at all levels tend to work productively as per their potential.

CONCLUSION
 The PowerPoint presentation has been concluded that changes are important in every
organization and it may affect negatively or positively. The report has been analyzed
that Toyota need technological advancement, effective leadership strategy. Leadership
approaches are essential for Toyota to deal with change and this approaches deliver the
changes effectively.

REFERENCES
 Salman, Y. and Broten, N., 2017. Leading Change. Macat Library.
 Espedal, B., 2017. Understanding how balancing autonomy and power might occur in
leading organizational change. European Management Journal.35(2). pp.155-163.
 Hassan, A. T., 2018. Organizational Change Management: A Literature Review.
 Nelson-Brantley, H. V. and et.al., 2018. Leading Change: A Case Study of the First
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 Doppelt, B., 2017. Leading change toward sustainability: A change-management guide for
business, government and civil society. Routledge.

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