Leading and Managing Change: Employee Resistance and Strategies

This report delves into the complexities of leading and managing change within organizations, using ASDA as a case study. It begins by exploring the reasons behind employee resistance to organizational changes, such as the need for continuous training and adapting to new technologies, and offers recommendations for mitigating this resistance, including motivational strategies, effective training programs, and the integration of new talent. The report then examines the emergent approach to strategy, highlighting its role in adapting to dynamic environments and capitalizing on emerging opportunities, while also acknowledging its limitations, such as short-term focus and potential risks. The conclusion synthesizes these findings, emphasizing the importance of proactive change management strategies to ensure organizational adaptability and competitive advantage.

Leading and managing
change

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
SECTION A.....................................................................................................................................3
Explain the reasons why the employees resist when there are some new change in the
company and some recommendation..........................................................................................3
SECTION B.....................................................................................................................................4
Describe emergent approach to strategy and review it...............................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
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INTRODUCTION
Change is a very common word with a deep meaning. Everything needs a change, in this
fast forward world everything and everyone is changing day by day . In organisations various
management policies or practices are changed day to day for the betterment of the company and
its employees. Changes which the company does is only for the purpose of adapting to new
environment and this thing leads to creativity . The change in management leads to various
problems also like the problem of backlashing form the employees who are not happy with the
change.
This report is taken in context with ASDA, about the resistance in their organisation
when some new changes are introduced and some recommendation to stop the resistance. This
report also throws some light on emergent approach to strategies.
SECTION A
Explain the reasons why the employees resist when there are some new change in the company
and some recommendation
When new changes are applied in the organisation there are various employees who resist
these changes as they have to adapt to new changes which will consume some time. ASDA also
does changes time to time so that they can adapt to the change in environment and for serving
their customer with better quality. In this fast changing world trends tend to change from time to
time and the company should adopt to new changes as they they have to gain competitive
advantage over their competitor. If ASDA doesn't introduce organisational change or
management change time to time then they will be left it from the competition. Although ASDA
face a lot of organisational problem during this process but the main problem that they faces is
the problem of the resistance of the employee when they introduce new changes. The main
reason for the resistance is that the employees have to do training time to time. These training
consume a lot of efforts as they are very time consuming and a lot of employees do not want to
adapt ton these changes as they think that the new change is waste and unorthodox. With
continuous change in this the employees also feels unmotivated because they were already
habitual with the old method and its very hectic for them to adapt to new changes. Also when
the new changes come the employee have to upgrade their excising skill because the new
changes comes with a new skill set and its very hard for the old employees to upgrade their skills

et time to time. New employees or the young employees can easily adapt and upgrade their skills
with the change in the technology as they have a ling way to go.
ASDA should motivate their employees so that they can adapt to these changes. ASDA
should not make changes very fast as the existing employees will face various problems time to
time. These problem at starting may seem very small but as the time goes by these problems will
eventually become more and more bad for the organisation as they will see a lot of resignation.
To overcome these problems ASA have to continuously motivate their staff so that they can be
motivated more and more for doing the task more effectively and efficiently. They have to
conduct seminars and training session time to time and in an effective manner so that the
employees themselves get encouraged to participate with the training. ASDA should also recruit
some new talent so that the new members can have the required skills and knowledge for the
new required work. The new talent will be very effective and they can easily adapt to the
changes as they are very swift with the technology and the are very curious about the new
changes and they can also willingly participate in the training and the development section which
ASDA conducts.
SECTION B
Describe emergent approach to strategy and review it
Through a proper planing a company can do marvellous things and ASDA has shown
many examples of their proper planning. In making a proper plan ASDA do research and
development for many months and days so that the out come of the plan be huge success. ASDA
make various strategies so that they can be at competitive advantage in respect with their
competitors. A company can only move forward or can gain market share if they have proper
strategy and a properly planned action. But there are various occasion in which the company
have to make unplanned strategies so that they can gain the first hand competitive advantage
over their competitors and can gain high market share . So the emergent approach to the
strategies means that they are the unplanned strategy. This strategy is just the emergency made
strategy so that they can easily adapt to the new changing world. This is a short term planning
and in this the teams or the members learn during the strategies are going on and they acquire
new skills in this process and they also acquire new knowledge as these emerges incrementally
so there is a very less chance of this strategy facing resistance from the employees. This

strategies also help in exploring various resources and opportunity. There were various
unexploited resources and opportunity which is coming out now with the emergent approach to
strategy.
ASDA also some time have to make proper planning so that they can grab the emerging
opportunity before their competitors and make full use of it so that they gain a big market share.
These are very good for short term but they can't be used in a long term. There re various
problem which ASDA faces through emergent strategy. The first and the main problem that
ASDA face is the problem of short term growth. These strategies are only used in coping with
the emerging opportunity and after the opportunity is garbed then it is disbanded. Their is also no
formal strategic planning for this strategies and since these strategies also come incremental they
also have a carry a high risk with them as these strategies can be influenced by various cultures
and they are always carrying a risk of strategic rift with them. ASDA also face s a lot of issues
related to the issue of long term growth and as these emergent strategies are only for the short
term so the the growth of the employees are al;so for the short term problems where as the
management of the company aims for the long term growth of their employees and they also
train their employees for the developing their skill set for long time purpose.
CONCLUSION
Form the above report it is concluded that when the organisation introduces changes they face a
lot of problems form the side of their employees as they are not willing to adapt to the changes.
They also face the problems like unmotivated employees and they face problem like the old
employees are not willing to adopt the changes and new technologies for this ASDA has came up
with many solutions like introducing the training and development program in an effective way
so that the employees may willingly joins in the sessions and they also have paved the way for
new talent as they come up with new skills and creativity whenever required. New talent can also
adapt to new changes and new technologies fast as compared to the old employees and they are
also tech-savvy so they can easily work with new technology which the company has to
introduce. ASDA also sometimes also uses the emergent strategies to gain the first hand
advantage on the merging opportunities. This will give them competitive advantage over their
competitions.

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