Understanding and Leading Change: Sainsbury and Tesco Analysis Report

This report examines the impact of Brexit on the organisational change strategies of Sainsbury and Tesco, two major British multinational corporations. It compares the two companies, analyzing how external factors, particularly the uncertainty surrounding Brexit, have influenced their strategies and operations. The report utilizes the Kubler-Ross Change Curve to understand the process of managing change. It explores the changes in organizational structure and identifies key drivers of change, including customer, competitor, and technological factors. Furthermore, it categorizes different types of organizational change, such as strategic and transformational change, as well as people-centric approaches. The analysis highlights the challenges faced by both organizations in terms of supply chain, workforce, and intellectual property, and the strategic responses adopted to mitigate these issues.

Understanding and
leading change

INTRODUCTION
All the business operations are affected by the uncertainty of Brexit and it give negative
impact in the development of the organisation. Mainly Brexit referendum on 23 June in the year
2016. For this report, Sainbury organisation will be consider that is a multinational British
organisation that operate their business all around the world. This report will conduct
comparison with different organisation and also analyse the impact of changes on the strategies
and operations of the organisations. This report also discuss about the various drivers that can be
use in change and also explain organisational change.
TASK
Compare Various Organisational examples and identify the impact of change on strategy &
operations of organisation’s.
Basis Sainsbury Tesco
Change as per the external
environmental factors
Due to the uncertainty of
Brexit, provide adverse impact
on the organisation external
environmental factors and it is
analysed that political and
economical factors both are
affected the most. The whole
market of the Sainsbury go
down and organisation
consider some changes so that
they can tackle with the
negative impact of Brexit. The
whole marketing of UK
affected and country faced
many difficulty to transport
and trade activities in EU and
other countries. So Sainsbuiry
Due to Brexit, Tesco also
faced some issues in their
external factors and
generalised that economical
factor is the one that affected
the most so that organisation
use Kubler Ross Change curve
model that can help to deal
with the change so that through
this strategy organisation can
maintain all the operations
successfully.

address some changes in their
marketing and other policies
and formulate various
strategies that can help in the
operations of the organisation
(Knights, 2018).
Changes in Structure This Organisation mainly
consider centralized structure
that can help to modify some
changes according to the
various strategies and
operations. The impact of
Brexit affect the whole
structure of Sainsbury so
organisation experienced
various issues related to the
supply chain, workforce and
intellectual property so that
organisation adopt talent
management strategies that can
help to strategic hiring of the
employees so that they can
help to maintain all the
operations of the organisation.
Organisation mainly follow
hierarchical structure but
Brexit situation affect the
entire market and operations of
the organisation. Tesco adopt
the trader support services
strategy that can affect the
whole operations of the
organisation (Marques, 2020).
Various drivers for change as per the given example and discuss types of organisational change
There are various drivers for change are considered like customer's change drivers,
competitors change driver and technological change driver. Because of Brexit, organisation
experienced many issues and can affect the whole operations so organisation formulate some

strategies and decide to use some drivers of change to cope up with this situation. All these type
of change drivers mainly addressed the requirement of customers so that organisation can deliver
the valuable products and gain customers loyalty. Competitors change driver can help to measure
the current status of competitors so that on the basis of this organisation can do some changes so
that they can get more competitive advantages. Technological change driver can help to use
advanced level of technologies so that organisation easily obtain the regular operations (Steidle,
2017).
There are various type of organisational change are considered such as “Strategic and
transformational change” and “People centric and organisational change”.These kind of
organisational change can help to build strategies that can help in transformation and also
consider some changes in employment policies and make people centric organisation procedure
and appoint those employees that can help in improvement of organisation productivity so that
organisation can tackle Brexit situation.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Knights, J., 2018. Understanding leadership. Leading Beyond the Ego: How to Become a
Transpersonal Leader.
Marques, J., 2020. Awakened Leaders and Conscious Followers: Leading Mindful Change. In
New Horizons in Positive Leadership and Change (pp. 19-32). Springer, Cham.
Steidle, G.K., 2017.Leading from within: conscious social change and mindfulness for social
innovation. Mit Press.