Leading and Managing Change: Analysis of Leadership Strategies

This report provides a comprehensive overview of leading and managing change within an organizational context. It begins by highlighting the significance of change management and the various drivers that necessitate it, such as technological advancements and evolving consumer preferences. The report then delves into the barriers to change, emphasizing their impact on leadership and decision-making. It further explores leadership approaches, particularly in the context of Sports Direct, focusing on how leaders build positive mindsets and educate individuals about the importance of change. The report also examines various leadership styles, including situational leadership, and the application of change theories like Lewin's model. Finally, the report concludes by emphasizing the importance of effective leadership in managing change and its role in achieving competitive advantages. The report uses Sports Direct as a case study to illustrate the application of these concepts.

Leading and
Managing Change

Table of Content
• Introduction
• Various barriers of change
• Various approaches of leadership
• Conclusion
• References

Introduction
• Change management is a collective term used for the all approaches to
build, support and to help individuals, teams and organization in effective
change within the organization The most common kind of change drivers
which includes the technological evolution, process reviews, crisis and
change in consumer taste.

Various barriers of change
Change is one of most important aspect for an organization, while changes
implement within the organization it is significant to put one of best efforts
to eliminate the barriers of change as it directly influence on the leadership
and decision-making.

Cont.…
In context of Sports direct they take actions to adopt changes that are:
• Initiated or imposed change
• Nature/ scope of change
• Barriers and resistance to change

Cont.…
Leadership and decision making:
Leader is one of most important personality that plays very crucial role
in the change process as they builds positive mind-set of people for adopting
the changes. The leader is responsible for educating people about changes
and its significance for organization as well as for the individual in order to
remain competitive in marketplace.

Various approaches of leadership
In an organization while changes takes place leader plays very much crucial
role in order to guide and affect the behavior of their subordinates. In
context of sports direct that work on the strategy of collaboration with the
other firm to deliver one of best values to the ultimate consumer base.

Cont.…
While changes occurs within the organization they use leadership styles that
are as follows:
• Situational leadership: Situational leadership refers to the situation in
which leader or manager of an organization adopt and adjust their style
that fit according to the development of the followers that leader tried to
influence.

Cont.…
Change theories: While changes occurs within the organization it is very
much important for an organization to observe or evaluate the changes by
using appropriate theories and practices. In context of sports direct when
changes occurs within the organization they uses various theories and
practices that are as follows:
• Lewin's change management model

Conclusion
From the above report it has been concluded that changes are very important
for organization as it helps in gaining competitive advantage by adding
values. It is very effective to manage changes by leading people properly. It
is the responsibility of a leader to educate about changes to their
subordinates in regards of its significance for both organization and
individual so that they can give one of their best efforts.

References
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 Ansari, A.M., 2019. Iran, Islam and democracy: The politics of managing
change. Gingko Library.

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