UKCBC Unit 17: Understanding and Leading Change Assignment Report

This report explores various leadership approaches and change models within the context of a business environment. It begins with an introduction highlighting the importance of understanding and adapting to change, particularly in the context of a company like Aston Lark. The report then delves into different leadership styles, including situational and democratic leadership, explaining how these styles can be applied to manage conflict and facilitate decision-making. Furthermore, it discusses change models such as the Unfreeze-Change-Refreeze model and the Bridges Transition Model, providing insights into how organizations can successfully implement and navigate change. The report concludes by emphasizing the significance of leadership styles and change models for organizational success, referencing key concepts and models to support its arguments.

Understanding and
Leading change

Table of Content
 Introduction
 Different leadership approach
 Conclusion
 References

Introduction
It is very important for the company to understand different changes and
adoption of various leadership styles in the complex business
environment. Leadership style plays very essential role in the Aston Lark
company because it motivate the employees. Which helps the
organisation to achieve their goals and objectives. In this Power point
presentation various leadership approaches to deal with changes are
discussed.

Different leadership approach
Situational leadership: - According to this
approach, different situation wants different
leadership style. It encourage the leader to
take effective decision according to their
capacity and quality which is required by
the organisation according to changes. In
the Aston Lark company, conflict arise
between the employees so leader need to
take decision according to situation.

Cont...
Democratic leadership: - It is also known
by the participative leadership style that
involves their followers in their decision
making process. It also includes the
distribution of authority and power
between the leader and workers. In case of
expanding Aston Lark's business, leader
will distribute their power and authority so
employees can perform according to it.

Cont...
Unfreeze: This phase of model help the leader in the Aston Lark
company to achieve changes in entire management process. This
stage create the willingness to adopt changes in respect of pushing
their comfort zone.

Cont...
Change: In this stage, leader implement changes in the Aston Lark
company according to it's need and requirement which help them for
sustaining in the market.
Refreeze: In this phase, employees, leader and staff members accept
the changes of the Aston Lark. They build a new environment and also
achieve the transforming way of working in the Aston Lark's company.

Cont...
Bridges Transition Model: It generally deals with worker emotional
effect to modification, rather than the scheme for making it happen.
The model guides the manager with the proper knowledge that is
further required by them to guide employees emotionally within
Aston Lark through changes. The 3 stages in the transition model
are:
 Ending, Losing and Letting Go
 The Neutral Zone
 The New Beginning

Conclusion
According to above discussion it has been concluded that, every
organisation required leadership style and it is very important too.
Different leadership approaches have distinct importance in the
organisation which works according to the situation. However, change
model help the company to adopt various changes according to their
need and requirement.

References
Medenica, L., 2016. What universities can learn from businesses:
a critical research study of adapting corporate organizational
development approach in university environment.
Suryandari, R. T. and Jeon, S., 2016. Consumers’
Conspicuousness and its Underlying Traits. In Thriving in a
New World Economy (pp. 164-167). Springer, Cham.

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