Understanding and Leading Change in a Business Environment

This report delves into the critical aspects of leadership and change management within a business context. It begins by defining leadership and its significance, highlighting the role of leadership in driving organizational change. The report explores different leadership styles, including autocratic, participative, and laissez-faire approaches, and their impact on business operations. It focuses on the application of autocratic leadership in a specific case study. The report also discusses the factors influencing organizational change and the importance of effectively managing these changes. It concludes by emphasizing the significance of organizational change for business success and the role of leadership in facilitating this process. The report references relevant academic sources, such as McShane and Von Glinow (2013), Mowday et. al. (2013), and Palmer et. al. (2016), to support its findings.

Understanding and
leading change
Blake Logitech company

Introduction
 Leadership is defined as the way by which various executives of the
company are managing and controlling subordinates and staff. A
strong and effective leadership in Blake Logitech will help to manage
all the work related activities properly. It is also seen that there is
need of having an effective leadership for managing the
organisational change activities. There are different types of
leadership style adopted by senior executives of Blake Logitech.

Various leadership approaches
 Charismatic leadership
 Laissez–Faire
 Participative:
 Autocratic:

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 Charismatic leadership – This leadership
style is one in which the leader provides
motivation and encouragement to
employees in order to work hard.
 Laissez–Faire: This is a delegative
approach in which the leaders are involved
within managing the work properly for
attaining the goals assigned.

Cont…
 Participative: This is defined as the way of managing the
subordinates and staff for accomplishing the organisational targets
 Autocratic: This kind of leadership approach is defined as
the leadership style in which leaders alone take decisions.

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 In context of Blake Logitech small hotel, leaders have sleected
autocratic style to manage their business activities. The autocratic
leader makes most if not all decisions, leaving little if any room for
feedback. This might boost efficiency since decisions are made
quicker, but it sure doesn’t boost team morale.

Conclusion
 It is analysed from the above report that organisational change is one
of the most essential factor while managing success of enterprise.
There are different factors because of which organisations undergo
change. It is very important for the companies to manage the
functioning in order to have successful organisational change. There
are various leadership styles used within the company in order to
effectively manage the business activities.

References
 McShane, S. and Von Glinow, M., 2013. M Organizational Behavior.
New York, New York: McGraw-Hill/Irwin.
 Mowday and et. al., 2013. Employee—organization linkages: The
psychology of commitment, absenteeism, and turnover. Academic
press.
 Palmer and et. al., 2016. Managing organizational change. McGraw-
Hill Education.

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