Leading Change: Strategies, Barriers, and Leadership Approaches

This report delves into the complexities of leading change within organizations, drawing upon examples from Aldi and Hilton. It examines the impact of change on organizational strategies and operations, exploring both internal and external drivers of change and their influence on leadership. The report further investigates strategies to mitigate negative behaviors during transitions, analyzes various barriers to change and their impact on leadership decision-making, and outlines different leadership approaches to managing change across diverse organizational settings. The analysis covers key aspects of change management, providing insights into how organizations can successfully navigate and adapt to evolving market conditions and technological advancements.

UNDERSTANDING AND
LEADING CHANGE
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
P1 Different
organizational examples where
there has been an
impact on its strategy and
operations....................................................................................................................................3
P2 Internal and external drivers of change affect leadership......................................................4
P3 Strategies to minimizes the impacts of the negative behaviour within organization............6
P4 different barriers to
change and determine how they
influence leadership decision- making........................................................................................7
P5 different leadership
approaches to dealing with
change in a range of
organisational..............................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11
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INTRODUCTION
Understanding and leading change is considers as to meet the problems of the
participants that come while implementing new changes (van der Voet, Kuipers. and
Groeneveld, 2015). Within the fast changing world, successful changes becomes one of the
biggest problems that can be faced by the various firms. The Strategic management has focuses
on the various change that can be succeeded. Present report lay emphasis on the Different
organisational examples where
there has been an
impact on is strategy and
operations of Aldi and Hilton. It also focuses on various Internal and external drivers of change
affect leadership. Strategies to minimizes the impacts of the negative behavior within
organization. Different barriers to
change and determine how they
influence leadership decision-making and Different leadership
approaches to dealing with
change in a range of
organizational. It focuses on the firs such as Aldi and Hilton, Where Aldi established within the
year 1946 as it is a retail firm estimated above €50 billion, Headquarter in Germany. While
Hilton hotel is a global brand that is full is of Hotel services as well as resorts. It was established
within 1919.It's headquarter is at Virginia ,Unites States (Espedal, 2017)
P1 Different
organizational examples where
there has been an
impact on its strategy and
operations
Change is very crucial for the every organization because it enables to sustain them for
long term within the market. Also there are some drivers of change due to which firm has to
implement change, Moreover there is a great impact change on the organizational strategies and
operations
ALDI – The firm has implemented change by introducing new frill packaging instead of the
Plain as these are the kinds of the products considers to be Colorful, attractive and consumers
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attracts towards it. For that there is an increase in the cost of the Product but at the same time
Aldi while managing the cost of its labors as they have changed its strategy by working with
different suppliers. By doing this shipping configuration Aldi maximizes the space efficiency as
Products takes the smallest voluble with both the display configuration and shipping
configuration (Doppelt,2017).
Hilton hotel – they have implemented technological change. In this they have automated
process. With the help of Automation Hilton hotel replaces the task that was earlier done by the
human. As it is designed to be saved the labor techniques as here the Hilton hotel uses the
technology instead of hiring the additional employees. Because of these, operations of the
workers reduced to a level and there is also less occurrence of the human error that was faced
by the firms earlier. There is change in their operations. Now robots completed tasks with less
errors and There is less wastage of money while hiring the additional workers for the hotel.
Hilton hotel adopts new strategy where Global services that needed the leading way online as
due to the advanced technologies, key partnership, build stronger consumer relationship and
many more. Due to this it leads to the High performance websites of the brand as it assist to
grow the revenues as well as trust the gain of the consumers (Soehner,2015)
P2 Internal and external drivers of change affect leadership
Every firm has its own culture. Firm depends on as well as interact in the external
environment to survive as well as grow They obtained inputs within their environment. They
able to transform them by different process as well as export output within the environment.
There are various ways regarding for internal and external factors that able to drive the change
in firm. Therefore, Firms are regularly responding within their external environment through
making changes within the internal environment. As there are arisen of pressures from the
internal firms as well (van der Voet, Kuipers. and Groeneveld, 2015).
Drivers of the forces of change
External forces- These include various forces that able to shape change such as
technology ,regulations,customer preference,sources instability ,competitors moves or suppliers.
Sometimes these are the kinds of the external changes that may be arisen very quickly such as
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Tsunamis. Various other external factors are Drivers of the forces of change considered as the
slow moving lava flow. They can be political,social ,technological.
Political – These are the kind of the forces that the government has own their business as it
involves the polices of the government,instability, foreign trade policy, labour law, trade
restrictions, Tax policy,corruption. Thus, the government also influenced on the health
regulations and infrastructure. Also, the relationship among the government as well as business
houses becomes very complex nowadays (Acree and Fox, 2015). aldi has implemented change
due to political driver.
Technological factors- These are the factors that can impacts the operations within an industry
as it can makes the favour and unfavourable both. It involves the level of innovation,technology
incentives ,research and development activity ,automation as well as technological awareness
that can be posses by a market (Fragouli. and Ibidapo, 2015). These are the kind of the factors
that impact the decisions to take entry or not to take entry within certain firms, also to launch
and not to launch the specified products , Having the knowledge about what's going within the
market as per the technology wise. It may able to prevent a lot of the money of the firm on the
things that becomes obsolete as technology changes every day. Hilton has implemented change
due to technological advancement.
Environmental factors- These are the factor becomes crucial due to the enhancing scarcity of
the raw materials ,carbon footprints, pollution targets that can be set by the government. These
types of factors included the environmental and ecological aspects such as climate
change,environmental offsets that may impact the industries for example tourism ,insurance and
agriculture. Thus, with the growing awareness regarding potential influences of the changing
climate that influence that how the firms operates as well as offer the products they offer. Such
as ALDI there are various firms involved within the such kinds of practices like CSR.
Market conditions- These conditions are not more static as this kind of process has the rapid
change,expectation ,desires of the consumers that are changes rapidly. O there is always a tough
competition between suppliers and manufacturers within the market.
Internal forces – These are the kinds of the forces that able to collect the actions as well as
decisions that occur inside the firm as they are easier to control and also more predictable as
compare to the external forces. One of the factor that impact the firm is management. It is a key
to success of the firm as here to manage the firm within a right manner ,provides a strategy as
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well as be a good leader is falls under management. To enhance the performance the firm Aldi
decided to take the risk consider as the starting of the changes within the inside of the business.
Leadership is considered as to manage things properly (Acree. and Fox, 2015). . Firm like Aldi
turn leaders to provide the guidance about the situations of the Aldi. Such as how to behave with
the costumers as well as verify the values that can guide their activity. More than anyone else
within the firm leaders are accountable directly describe the ability to the people to accomplosih
the performance.
Learning- It is considered as the most fundamental human actions that accounts directly or
indirectly regarding the success of the firm. Such as technological advances leads to the quicker
change as well as boosts innovation that enhance the productivity of the Aldi. It is also
maintained to build the experiences of the staff members to learn and explore the opportunities.
Communication- The organization like Aldi. Team leaders and members communicate freely
without feeling any hesitation and improve the results. It is considered as the two-way
communication is key to the successful as employees are feel free to give their ideas and
innovation to enhance the productivity of the firm. With the deficiency of the communication
within the firm have rigid leadership that can destroys trust.
P3 Strategies to minimizes the impacts of the negative behaviour within organization
There are various strategies that can be applied by the firms to minimize the negative
impact within workplaces. Negative environment affects everything regarding from
productivity and also impact the retention of the employees as no one is able to handle the toxic
environment. Negativity is not considered as the insurmountable challenge. Here unintentional
behaviour regarding negative as well as unnoticed through individual(Fragouli. and Ibidapo,
2015).
Communication- In the firms like Aldi as every worker has the opportunity to talk about ,gives
the input as well as provides their ideas and thoughts. As it depends on about the chase as well as
how many people effect when the change is done. Within a firm the staff member's input effect
how to apply changes at a departmental level. As overall direction came from the peers of Aldi
that have feedback from their employees about various things (Acree. and Fox, 2015).
To form a leadership team
Leadership team may able to lead the changes as it contain the cross section of the staff members
from all over the firm. They are the person who sighted managers as well as seniors leaders
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about the consequential oversight regarding portions. Here communication is considered as the
strength of the fir as it not about the input of the workers but also the feedback from the
employee that can makes the filtered that can be represented by the middle management.
Manage the change resistance
Here the actions hat can be provided assist to minimize the risks, make it less painful ,reduce. It
is not considered as the change but implement these suggestions will provides the head start.
Such as how a change within the firm can be close at any point. Hilton effectively managed the
impact of change by managing its resistance. They have identified risks and took proper
measures.
By creating a culture of learning- While creating culture lay emphasis on the employees
where the able to faces new challenges as well as tries to develop their leadership and functional
skills that can assist to set them within the success on preset employees as well as next employer.
Hilton has minimised impact of change by creating a culture of learning. They have allowed staff
to learn from automation.
Train and prepare- training is crucial for every aspect of life especially within the workplaces
as by having opportunity as well as resources ,there is need of the make time for the employees
so that they can learn new skills as by providing them opportunity regarding the change makes
them prepare within more experience and skills. By preparing as well as Training them assist the
employees to make more easily into the new works ,roles as well as other areas where here is a
need of the improvement. By reviewing the steps above emotion assist any firm to implement
change quickly can assist everyone to cope better within the little change as a these little things
can helps to save a lot of time and prepare for the rapid and quick changes which is beneficial
for both the company and Employees as firms enhances its productivity while the employees get
to enhance their skills which is beneficial for them within future. Aldi has provided training to
staff on how to work with change process of packaging products.
P4 different barriers to
change and determine how they
influence leadership decision- making
Barriers are always considered as the gaps in current and recommended practices as there
are having a negative impact regarding daily production process within the firm. Thus to prevent
form this occurrence there would be a suitable barrier to change as well as knowing how to
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make clear them. Once everyone knowns about how to solve such kinds of the barriers to
change as well as implement such kind of change. Mention below most common barriers faced
by the Organization.
Lack of the involvement of the employee
It is considered as the most common barrier regarding change management. Staff members
always have the fear regarding the change, as they are included within process as it is will assure
that most of the employees will able to resist the change within firm. There is a biggest mistakes
that organization are unable to involve the employees within their change process. This
enhances the number of the fears regarding unknown , lack of desires to enhance a culture and
many more. The efforts regarding change can only be succeeded when the staff member's also
involved within the new process. By greeting them involved means that to listen about their
opinions, responsible for their output as well as ensuring that the change is does not for the good
for al the firms including them. By giving them enough resources that can drives them towards
the change consider as a necessary thing to do (Acree. and Fox, 2015). .
Lack of the effective communications strategy
There is no effective strategy as some leaders of the firm always assumes that once if
they announce any kind of the changes than the people will adjust as well as started considering
the new development no matter what conditions might be. This is considered as the slightest way
to introduce any kind of change and hence it is considered to be forceful resistance to be
change . Here the Managers must stop the making of the announcement as well as introduce
various strategies .Staff members of the Aldi no need to about the exchange but also know that
how this will affect them as well as adapt such kind of modification.
Complexity of organization
There is a time comes when the firms get to develop various complex processes. By making
them the process of planning as well as implementing change that is consider as a bit more
complex as it involves the products and systems,complex processes and all of them contributes
to change barriers as they seem to be difficult for the members of the firms to understand. It is
vital for the firm to break such kind of the barrier through introducing a skilful approach to
tackle firms rapid growth and complexity. Firms like Aldi can break these kinds of the barriers
through employing quality as well as projects that are highly effective and needs the framework
that is change management approach. There is also introduce as well as tries to apply changes as
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of he firm still lacks kinds of the maturity to handle various changes that are considered to be
complex (Dobel, 2017)
Unknown current state
Change has always become difficult for those form whoa area unable to plot their current
blueprint of the firm as they have lack of ideas within their existing state. Such firms are unable
to realize that they are evaluates the exiting firm's blueprint that causes a kind of the barrier to
modify to implement. There is the only way to evaluate s well as fully understanding the exiting
blueprint of the firm before taking any further attempt to introduce any kind of change or
suggestion. As once the firm analyses the blueprint as well as able to understands it clearly ,it is
easier to plan a well as forecast the best within the future (Amey. and Eddy.Turner. and Kim,
2016).
P5 different leadership
approaches to dealing with
change in a range of
organisational
In order to manage change it is necessary to apply different leadership styles. It depends
on type and nature of change that what leadership styles is suitable. There are different
leadership styles that can be followed. Each of them is applied in different situations.
Situational leadership- It is a kind of the leadership that is adaptive in nature as it boosts
various leaders to stock within their team as per this style there is no style that is best for the
achieving the goals as well as circumstances of a firm Or in other words it adapts the needs and
requirements of the firm . It is not based on the particular skills of the leaders of the Aldi but
posses as capacity to adopt any kind of the situation (Dobel, 2017)
Autocratic Leadership- It is known as the centred on the boss as it holds all the responsibility and
authority. Within this leadership leaders make their own decisions without consulting any
employees or other consulting subordinates. Thus leadership style has no flexibility, within this
kind of leadership procedures,guidelines as well as police are all consider under the style of the
autocratic leadership.
Democratic leadership- Within such kind of the leadership subordinates are also included to
make various decisions as it is opposite to the autocratic leadership as here leaders supports the
ideas and inventions of the subordinates as they are the personalties who hold the final
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responsibility, but they are also known for delegate authority to the other persons. One of the
unique feature of this leadership is that it is considered as an upward as well as downward. It has
following features such as fairness,creativity,courage , honesty, intelligence and competence.
Transformational leadership- It is a kind of leadership that works on improving and
transforming upon the invention of the firm as Here the staff members might have the basic goals
and tasks that they have to complete within every month or week but at the same time leaders
pushing them outside to their comfort zone (Amey. and Eddy.Turner. and Kim, 2016). It is
known as the highest boosted form regarding the leadership as it can motivate the staff members
to see that how much they are capable of . According to the statics Transformational leaders are
more committed as well as have satisfied followers ,Also the can set more challenging
expectation as well as achieve at a higher performance.
Coach style leadership
As the same suggest it is focuses on the recognizing as well as focusing on the strategies that
allows the team of the Aldi to work better. This is a kind of the leadership that is similar to the
democratic and strategic leaderships and lay emphasis on the growth as well as success of the
employees of the Aldi. Instead of focusing same kinds of goals as well as skills they focus on
the specified skills on the workers are expertise and have something different (Lopez. and Wise,
2015). Within this style leaders of Aldi also lay emphasis on creating teams that are strong as
well as communicate well. Manages of the Aldi assist the employees to improve on their
strengths by providing them tasks as well as contributing new guidance to discuss various
feedback, It might be more boosting for one or more members so that they can expand on their
strength though learning new skills form the other team members.
Strategic leadership- Leaders of the strategic leadership sit between the growth opportunities
and main operations of the Aldi as they can accepts the burden regarding the interest of the
executives and also assuring that the current working conditions is also remains stable. There is a
need of the desirable strategic leadership as they are able to aids the multiple types of the staff
members at once (Amey. and Eddy.Turner. and Kim, 2016).
CONCLUSION
From the above report it had been concluded that Firm depends on different process
internal and external factors. External forces such as Political foreign trade policy, labour
law,Technological factors as It involves the level of innovation,technology incentives, that
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impact the decisions take entry within certain firms. Environmental factors included the
environmental and ecological aspects regarding potential influences of the changing climate.
Internal force are easier to control and also more predictable Leadership as to manage things
properly describe the ability regarding Learning. Such as technological advances leads to the
quicker change . Communication makes feel free to give their ideas and innovation to enhance
the productivity. It also focused on the different barriers Lack of the involvement of the
employee employees will able to resist the change within firm. Lack of the effective
communications' strategy forceful resistance to be change Complexity of organization involves
the products and systems,complex processes to change barriers assist rapid growth and
complexity. It also laid emphasized on the different leadership
approaches such as Situational leadership as it adapts the needs and requirements to adopt any
type of the situation. In Autocratic Leadership leaders make their own decisions without
consulting other members of the Team also there are various other leadership describe such as
Democratic leadership,Transformational leadership, Coach style leadership as well as Strategic
leadership.
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