Myer Organization: Leadership, Skills, and Change Management Analysis

This presentation provides an overview of change management within the Myer organization, a retail company headquartered in Australia. It emphasizes the importance of adapting the organizational structure to meet external and internal changes, such as technological advancements and fluctuating market conditions. The presentation highlights the leadership skills and attributes necessary for effective change management, including employee motivation, communication, innovative thinking, and decision-making. It also discusses the professional development support required to implement planned changes, such as training sessions and resources to improve business efficiencies. The presentation references Lewin's change management model (unfreeze, change, refreeze) and concludes that decision-making, communication, and innovative skills are crucial for the overall development and enhancement of the firm.

COURSE LEARNING

TABLE OF CONTENT
 INTRODUCTION
 THE PROPOSED PLAN REQUIRED TO BRING CHANGE IN
ORGANIZATION
 THE LEADERSHIP SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES REQUIRE IN ORGANIZATION
 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT THAT IS REQUIRE IN ORDER
IMPLEMENT PLANNED CHANGES

INTRODUCTION
 Change management can be defined as a process of planning,
implementing the changes happening in external and internal
environment for the benefits of the organization. Myer is a retail
industry that deals with the clothing of women, man and children
and having its headquarter located at Dockland, Australia.
 Furthermore, the presentation covers information about the
professional development support that are required to implement
the change plan. Moreover, the presentation will also shed light on
the leadership skills and attributes that are essential for overall
development and enhancement of company.

PROPOSED PLAN REQUIRED TO BRING CHANGE
IN ORGANIZATION
 Organization structure is a framework that define how activities are to be made in
order to accomplish the aims and objectives of company. This structure also includes
rules, responsibility and roles of employees. The as company currently following the
hierarchical organization structure but firm is not able to accomplish their ends goals
and objectives with this structure (joseph and gaba (2020)).
 So, organization decided to change their structure to meet the external and internal
changes such as rapid change in technology and fluctuating market condition with a
motive to make quality product and enhance the overall revenue.

LEADERSHIP SKILLS AND
ATTRIBUTES REQUIRE IN
ORGANIZATION
 Leadership skills are used by leader to motivate and manage
employees that are working within the organization for
accomplish of the ends goals. Likewise, employee motivation,
communication, innovative thinking and decision- making are
different skills that needs to be present in a leader to manage
the team.
 As a leader i am focusing on improving my problem solving
skill in which i am trying to identify the issues step by step so
that conflicts can be solved rapidly by taking appropriate
decisions.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
SUPPORT THAT IS REQUIRE IN
ORDER IMPLEMENT PLANNED
CHANGES
 Professional development is set of different tools such as training session
and resources used by an organization to improve the business efficiencies
so that it can contribute in overall development.
 This tool helps the manager in developing and improve their skills so that
they can solve conflicts of employees and firm and reduce overall threat.
 So, in order to implement the planned change as leader I need proper
resources as they result in increasing the value of the customer as well as
they help firm to sustain in business environment and increase the sales.

CONCLUSION
 From the above presentation it has been concluded that
change management is framework that outline the plans
required for firm. The presentation also summarized about
the organization structure that basically means group of
activities use for achieving the ends goals.
 Moreover, the presentation concludes information regarding
Lewin change management use by the Myer likewise
unfreeze, change and refreeze stages. Lastly, it can be
summarized that decision -making, communication and
innovative skills are used to enhance the overall
development of firm.

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