BTEC HND Business: Understanding and Leading Change Assignment Report

This report delves into the critical aspects of organizational change and the leadership styles required to navigate it successfully. It begins with an introduction to organizational change, emphasizing its importance in achieving profitability and competitive advantage. The report then examines different leadership approaches, including transactional, transformational, team, charismatic, autocratic, and democratic styles, and their relevance in managing change within organizations like Marks and Spencer. It highlights the significance of adapting leadership styles to specific situations. The report concludes by summarizing the positive and negative impacts of organizational change on a company's performance, emphasizing the opportunities and challenges associated with change. References are provided to support the analysis.

Understanding and Leading
Change

Content covered
 Introduction
 Leadership approaches to deal with change
 References

Introduction
Organizational change refers to alterations or modifications made in order to gain
some profitability or competitive advantage. An organization change its culture,
strategies, technology and other attributes of the organization in response to failure in
an attempt to achieve goals and objectives. The changes in an organisation occurs
when the standards are changed. These changes can be continuous or for a distinct
period of time as each organization go through with the present changes.

Different leadership approaches to dealing with change
When it comes to make alterations within a company like Marks and Spencer, it is
required for the organisation's leader to use different leadership styles based on the
situations that has been faced by them. Basically when a situation changes, a leader
cannot perform jobs using same approach which was being used previously when
nothing got changed.
 Transactional Leadership Style:- This kind of leadership style basically focuses
on results, conforms to the existing structure of Marks and Spencer and measures
success according to company's system of rewards and penalties.

Cont.…..
 Transformational Leadership style:- This type of leadership style basically
consist of different initiatives within the organisation, individuals, groups or in
themselves as well.

Cont.…..
 Apart from this, there are some other leadership styles as well which could be
used by leaders of Marks and Spencer at the time of making alterations and
these are:
 Team Leadership style:- This type of leadership style could easily be used by
leaders of M&S at the time when the company is having an effective team that
could directly help organisation in any phase.
 Charismatic Leadership Style:- In this leaders tries to transform the values
and beliefs of their employee.

Cont.…..
 Autocratic Leadership style:- This means where organisational decisions are
purely centralized towards the top management.
 Democratic Leadership Style:- In this leadership style the subordinates are
free to take decision in the organisation. The leaders have only final
responsibility but the delegate authority is upon the subordinates

Conclusion
 With the help of above mentioned report, it is being summarised that
organisational change can basically put negative or positive impact on
performance level of a company. Along with this, a change made within a
business firm could develop ample number of opportunities and also might carry
a few negative impact as well like loss of loyalty, decrease among profitability
because of wrong decisions and many more.

References
 Ashley, L. and Empson, L., 2013. Differentiation and discrimination:
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 Cornish-Bowden, A. and Cornish-Bowden, A., 2012. Fundamentals of enzyme
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 Downes and et. al., 2016. Understanding deviance: a guide to the sociology of
crime and rule-breaking. Oxford University Press.

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