UKCBC Unit 17: Understanding and Leading Change Report Analysis

This report, prepared for UKCBC Unit 17, delves into the complexities of change management and leadership. It begins by exploring various leadership approaches, including situational leadership (directing, coaching, supporting, delegating), path-goal theory (directive, supportive, achievement-oriented), and participative leadership, examining their effectiveness in navigating organizational changes. The report analyzes the impact of change, using PESTEL and SWOT analyses for real-world organizations to evaluate how internal and external factors affect leadership behavior and team dynamics. It then discusses strategies to minimize the negative impacts of change on organizational behavior, incorporating relevant change theories. Furthermore, the report includes a force field analysis of an organization undergoing major changes, identifying barriers to change and their influence on leadership decision-making. Finally, the report concludes with a focus on how organizations can effectively deliver change, applying models and frameworks to improve change management strategies.

Understanding and Leading Change

TOC
Introduction
different leadership approaches
Leadership approaches deal with changes
Conclusion
References

Introduction
Change management refers to situation when the organisation changes its tools and techniques to
achieve the organisational objective of the company. Changes in the company are done to
improve the efficiency of the company and make the employee to work effectively for the
company.
Study will explain different leadership approaches and their effectiveness to deal with changes

P5 Different leadership approaches
SITUATIONAL LEADERSHIP THEORY
There are 4 styles of situational theory for the leaders i.e., directing,
coaching, supporting, and delegating.
Directing
Coaching
Supporting
Delegating

PATH GOAL THEORY
There are 4 Leadership styles of the path goal theory:
Directive: in this style, leader supervises his employees and provide proper guidelines to his employees
about the work, deadlines, etc.
Supportive: In this style, leaders supports their employees when they get demotivated due to their
personal problems and treat them with friendly behaviour and respect them and pay lot of attention to
them and provide proper guidelines to their employees
achievement oriented: In this style, leader provides challenges to their employees and trust them they
will complete the challenge to reach the goal.

PARTICIPATIVE leadership
In this style, leaders work with their employees and includes suggestions, opinions and ideas of
their employees from the discussions with the employees.

the extent to which leadership approaches can deliver change effectively
Participative leaderships is able to deal with
changes to great extent, as managers or leaders
involve people in decision making process, this
gain attention of employees and make them
loyal towards the brand.
By this way people accept changes easily and
support management.

Conclusion
The report puts the light on the change management in the company and enlighten the idea to
make the changes in the company for the development and growth of the company.
The company Giacom is expanding and making changes in the organisation. Giacom is medium
size organisation providing platform for the IT company in the cloud computing.

References
Hayes, J., 2018. The theory and practice of change management. Palgrave.
Cameron, E. and Green, M., 2015. Making sense of change management: A complete guide to the
models, tools and techniques of organizational change. Kogan Page Publishers.