Analysis of Organizational Change: Problems and Solutions

This report analyzes the challenges faced by PfC after a change in leadership, specifically focusing on the transition from Gail to Maria and Franco. The analysis identifies key problems such as inexperienced leadership, lack of strategic planning, and poor employee relations, which led to declining sales and market position. The report provides several recommendations for improvement, including training, risk-taking, commitment to stakeholders, proactive decision-making, conflict management, honest communication, and prioritizing employee well-being. The conclusion emphasizes the need for strategic leadership, long-term planning, and employee motivation to ensure the company's financial stability and competitive advantage, especially during periods of organizational change.

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7. Analysis of design for change: Anticipated problems and recommendations
Anticipated problems: The problems that the twins Maria and Franco experienced after
Gail retired from PfC is they were not able to manage the strategic leadership of their company.
As they were only the board members of the company and all important decision being taken by
Gail and Benito, both the twins were inexperienced about handling the business processes that
were being running in the company. Gail was focused on having employee satisfaction and was
thought about the well-being of their employees. But Maria and Franco was not able to carry out
the legacy and were facing loss in their business.
They were also not having patience and were very rude to their employees and
manufacturers which caused problem in employee retention in the company (Birasnav and
Bienstock 2019). Their inexperienced leadership in the company affected on all the departments
of the company and lead to many issues. There was no planning about how to handle the
business processes and there was no long term goals for the company (Shao 2019). The revenue
and the sales of the company was deteriorated gradually and was not able to handle the company.
They were also not able to pay for the organic cotton from Bangladesh and had to switch on the
low cost cotton from other manufacturer.
Later, when they decided to produced low cost merchandise, there was a huge
competition in the market and other companies was producing a good quality merchandise with
low price. PfC also lacked in designing new line of clothes for which the market of the company
declined totally.
Recommendations:

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1. The twins should have taken training or expert advice from their mother and should
have followed the procedures as well as adhere to the policies that Gail has implemented in the
company. They should have retained their employee well-being leadership that their mother has
established.
2. It very necessary for leaders to take risks for the company. Leaders leading a company
should be flexible and should know the procedure about how to implement a new policy or a
new procedure in the company (Covin and Slevin 2017). The leaders of the company should take
risk for the company that might benefit the company.
3. Leader should have commitment to the manufacturers or to groups they are connected
to. The mission and the vision of the group should be internalized by leaders of the company
(Langley et al. 2017). The leaders should commit their own ability so that they can lead others
and should include technical skills as well as includes conceptualise the situation that helps to
achieve their goals.
4. The leaders associated with the company should be proactive in taking decisions and
their involvement in each department is the most essential part that should have been followed
by the twins of PfC. They should be proactive in all the tasks that they perform in the company.
5. Conflict among the companies is common and leaders should have the ability to fight
for the company (Wang 2018). There should be proper interaction between the leaders and the
employees and an effective manager or leader should the ability to manage the conflict within
the company.

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6. Leaders should have the ability to say the truth with compassion (Rothaermel 2017).
The performance of an employee should be said to them with compassion and they are likely to
say the truth to improve the goal and objective of the company.
7. Employee well-being is to be taken care of and leaders need to look after that to have
more output from the employees (Pitelis and Wagner 2019). The leaders should have loving
organizational relationship that would motivate the employee more to work efficiently for the
company.
8. The attitude that a leader should have in leading the company should be controlled by
an individual. This would help them to manage the team properly and have more number of
employees willing to work for the company (Taylor and Storey 2016). The attitude of the leaders
will help to improve the personal goals and also improve the company goals.
8. Conclusion
As PfC was lacking in managing its strategic leadership, the twins leading the company
should have taken expert decision form their mother in managing the business processes of the
company. The main goal of the company is to implement long-term viability as well as to
maintain the financial stability of the company. Maria and Franco was not able to implement
both of these strategies as they were lacking in their leadership styles.
Gail retiring from the company made PfC deteriorating their sales and their employee
satisfaction as the new joint CEOs of the company was not able to maintain the business
processes properly. They should have included strategic leadership in the company for managing
the workers working in the company. Strategic planning includes long term planning that helps
to gain competitive advantage and would help to meet the need of the stakeholder competition

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and market needs. There should be motivation from the leaders of the company to the employees
who works for the company. The leaders should have the ability to motivate the employees so
that they can provide better quality of work in the organization. The mode of leadership in the
organization helps to determine the company future.
Strategic planning that is to be implemented by the CEO of the company would have
required to implement strategic planning, competitive advantage as well as includes comparative
advantage in the organization. As with the change in the CEO of the company there is an
organizational change within the company. This might lead to adoption of new strategy including
new activities and the management that help to manage the company more efficiently. Marie and
Franco could also have hired experts with highly experience to help them to organize their work
and to gain a strong marketing position. All the characteristics included in strategic leadership
are gradually adopted in consistent as well as timely fashion way and both the twins got neither
of them to enhance the leadership quality in them.

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