Understanding and Leading Change: A Comparative Report

This report offers a comprehensive analysis of change management, examining its impact on organizations and exploring strategies for effective implementation. Focusing on ASDA and Sainsbury's, the report investigates the influence of political, economic, and technological changes on business operations and individual, leadership, and team behaviors. It identifies both internal and external drivers of change, alongside measures to mitigate negative consequences, such as improved communication and strategic planning. The report further delves into the barriers to change within Sainsbury's, including communication gaps, and assesses the impact on leadership decision-making. Various leadership theories are evaluated to manage and deal with change effectively, providing valuable insights into navigating the complexities of organizational transformation. The report concludes with a discussion of the importance of adapting to change for maintaining a competitive business environment.

Understanding and Leading
Change

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1 : Impact of Change and Change Management..................................................................3
P1 Impact of progress on an association's system and activities. ..........................................3
P2 External and Internal drivers of change. ..........................................................................5
P3 Measures to minimise or avoid the negative impacts of change upon organisation
behaviour................................................................................................................................6
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................7
P4 Various barriers for change and its impact on leadership decision making within Sainsbury
................................................................................................................................................7
P5 Various leadership theories to manage and deal with change in Sainsbury .....................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Handling the various changes which are faced by an organisation or business is very
essential, this important process is done by the Change management. The business activities and
operations are affected in negative and positive way by the implementation of any change within
the organisation. This report consists a detailed comparison of two organisations with respect to
the effect or impact of change. The two UK based supermarket chains ASDA and Sainsbury are
considered in this report. Various measure or techniques used by the companies to reduce
negative impacts of the change will also be identified in this report. Furthermore, the report will
help to understand the importance and barriers in adapting or implementing the change.
TASK 1 : Impact of Change and Change Management
P1 Impact of progress on an association's system and activities.
Diverse associations actualize or faces different sorts of changes which can influence
them in both negative or positive way. ASDA and Sainsbury's are the firm which are
extraordinarily influenced by any progressions. These organizations confront different changes
which are at some point gainful for the business or adversely influence the same.
Effect of Change on ASDA
 Political changes – There are different changes influencing an association, for example,
rate of joblessness, tax assessment arrangements, sustenance laws, valuing approaches
and so on. ASDA needs to embrace these adjustments with a specific end goal to
maintain their business easily. The organization is viably mindful of arranging
authorization directions. The organization investigate and discover essential arranging
laws and controls which they have to consider while growing their stores keeping in mind
the end goal to lessen any issues or interruption by the administration experts. Political
factor ordinarily have the negative effect over the association. At some point it serves the
positive effect to the organisation(Archer,2015). At the point when the political party is
giving any sponsorship to the assets which is being utilized by the firm. In such cases the
cost of the attainment and creation will back off and the organisation can ready to pick up
the high net revenue on their items and administrations.
 Ecological changes – A noteworthy risk to the earth is a dangerous atmospheric deviation
which is caused because of overwhelming release of carbon dioxide by different
association or assembling ventures. ASDA keeping in mind the end goal to ensure

condition began supporting carbon decrease exercises. They arranged and presented
ozone-accommodating stores in the market. These stores release half less carbon dioxide
and are 40% more vitality productive when contrasted with some other recently
manufacture store. Firm need to centre around the distinctive Corporate social obligations
with the goal that they can diminish the negative effect over nature. Keeping in mind the
end goal to do as such they have to put resources into the generation framework with the
goal that less wastage should be possible. Other than that firm can likewise make
utilization of those assets which can be re-cycle once more.
Effect of change on Sainsbury
 Innovative change – Sainsbury's is improving its innovation and computerized group as it
causes the customers to purchase the items wherever and at whatever point needed. This
store is a main retail organization as indicated by the (Internet re-following's Top 500
research). The general population or purchasers inside the market gets exceedingly
dependent on the utilization of new and inventive innovations and they are utilizing web
of things to purchase or deal the distinctive items. Sainsbury's comprehended this
adjustment in the shopping techniques for the purchasers and embraced this change inside
their business activities. This difference in innovation inside the UK showcase influenced
Sainsbury's business procedures as they chose to grow their innovation and computerized
group or staff. The association wanted to procure new shrewd mentors and programming
designers to powerful specialists with a specific end goal to build up a more viable
workforce or innovation group. Sainsbury's made around 600 advanced and innovation
occupations openings in Coventry and London(Haslam and et.al,2014).
 Change in economy – The financial change is the most widely recognized one that
influence every single business or association. Sainsbury's confronted a gigantic test
because of the adjustment in economy inside UK. As the firm is working inside a
profoundly focused market then they have to confront financial downturn. Sainsbury
utilized the minimal effort system which prompts the adjustment in buying power and
empowered the organization to decrease the cost of the creation. With that it helps in
straightforwardly diminishing in the cost or estimation of then items or merchandise.
Low cost and cost of generation is advantageous for both the clients and the organization.

P2 External and Internal drivers of change.
There are various internal and external elements which are affected by the change. Impact
of changer on these elements of an organisation greatly affect the performance and the behaviour
of various teams as well as individual working within the business or organisation. It can be
explained as below -
 Drivers of Change affecting Individual Behaviour – There are many changes within a
marketplace or business environment that have a major impact on the behaviour of
individuals working within the ASDA and Sainsbury. Internal changes such as
technological changes affect the working behaviour of an individual(Kovač,2017). For
example – Changes in the equipments used for production can affect the working method
of the each every employee working within the manufacturing department. It also
improves the performance of the employees as well as the overall productivity of the
organisation. The external factors or changes such as intense competition also greatly
affect the working manner of an individual. Due to the high level of competition in the
market organisational activities needs to be improved and increase the productivity. In
order to increase the productivity each and every employee working within the
organisation increase his or her performance.
 Drivers of change affecting leadership behaviour – The change in the internal
environment of a business or organisation greatly affect the leadership behaviour. The
changes such as technological change encourage the change in organisational structure or
working procedure of the business or organisation. The leaders such as managers gets
affected by each and every change in the organisation. The change in technology affect
managerial processes or activities, Leaders also adopt new technologies such as internet,
email, applications and other technological elements in their day to day operations. Along
with the internal factors there are many external drivers of change such as the intense
competition in the market. The leaders such as managers art senior level within ASDA
and Sainsbury make or modify their management strategies in order to sustain in the
competitive market or industry(Matos and Esposito,2014).
 Drivers of change affecting the team behaviour – The technological changes have a great
impact on the team behaviour of a business or organisation such as Sainsbury and ASDA.
Each and every department within an organisation adopts the new technologies and other

technical changes in their working operations and activities. It helps them to fulfil the
demand and needs of the current trend in the market efficiently and effectively. The
internal changes directly affect overall performance of a firm or business by influencing
individual performance. The external factors or elements such as competition in the
market also affect the working behaviour of the leader, they enhance and improve their
performance. Managers modify their strategies according to the market conditions or
situations.
P3 Measures to minimise or avoid the negative impacts of change upon organisation behaviour
In every business change is a very common element that affect the employee's, staff and
groups behaviour within an organisation or business or workplace. Changes affect the business to
create and adopt new strategies or plans to overcome the various changes and reduce risk or
negative impacts on the business(Bateh,Castaneda and Farah,2013). There are many techniques
or strategies that an organisation or business can implement to minimise the risk or negative
impact of change, these measures are mentioned below -
1. Making a powerful method to interface or speak with the workers with regard to the new
changes or activities and their advancement. The administration of an association can
teach and furnish powerful rules to the representatives with normal updates inside the
group gatherings or exchanges.
2. Advancing new marketable strategies and methodologies to each group can help the
workers to comprehend the progressions and their effect on the authoritative conduct and
execution. The administration can clarify the new systems in a straightforward dialect to
every single staff with a specific end goal to give them a chance to comprehend the
positive effect of the new plans and how they will improve their occupations less
demanding and. The association needs to impart current business destinations and plans
to accomplish them to perform viably. It is being realized that there are a few new plans
that are made by the organisation so they can ready to pick up the upper hand and battle
with the vulnerability. When they are making the new arrangements, they used to deliver
the new items for the clients with the goal that they can provide food the necessities and
needs of the clients. In the event that they will put resources into the diverse advancement
exercises they can ready to advance their new item and ready to make the attention to the
new item and administrations.

3. The administration should welcome a group or gathering part from every last branch of
the association to contribute and take an interest in gatherings or exchanges. The
administration of the firm should give a very much organized course to each group to
advance new business system(Gattermeyer and Al-Ani,2013).
4. Choosing a group of progress specialists from key positions to help to oversee arranging
and actualizing. Administration needs to distinguish an individual shape each group who
is straightforward and furthermore inside the non-administration division. It is essential
for the administration to convey the progressions to every single individual and also
division so the entire authoritative can cooperate to lessen negative effect of the
progressions.
5. Creating key destinations or results for each individual, division and association engaged
with the new strategies for success. Each gathering or group must be natural to the
coveted results or results. The different divisions inside an association should focus on a
particular objective or goal keeping in mind the end goal to accomplish it adequately.
6. Administration of an association ought not just spotlight on the usage of new techniques
or plans for dealing with the change. The administration inside the firm ought to create
particular objectives or point of reference which are should have been accomplished in a
specific day and age. The arranging identified with the change is critical and considering
the objectives is a fundamental part which can't be disregarded(Khattak,Latif and
Lee,2013).
All the above measures are exceptionally viable in decreasing or limiting the negative
effect of different changes inside the business condition. The hierarchical conduct is exceedingly
impacted by the any adjustment in the business condition, interior or outside.
TASK 2
P4 Various barriers for change and its impact on leadership decision making within Sainsbury
Sainsbury's management system focus on utilising or adopting changes as they consider it
has a beneficial and effective impact on the business performance and operations. The main
objective of following or adopting the changes is to assist the business for maintaining and
developing an impressive business environment within the organisation. The different barriers or
obstacles for change faced by Sainsbury are as explained below -

 Communication gap – The Sainsbury needs to create an effective communicative strategy
or channel to ensure that the flow of information or ideas is smooth. It helps in creating a
strong relationship among the employees. Each and every individual should understand
the role of himself as well as others in the business operations along with the business
plans. This helps in achievement of the organisational and objective effectively and
efficiently. Lack of effective communication or interaction strategies creates an issue of
misunderstanding or perception, it can create a wrong interpretation of an idea or plan.
The change in communication strategy can develop a confusion among the employees
and have a negative impact on their performance.
 Lack of employee contribution or involvement – This is a general barrier to change and
change management. The employees within an organisation sometimes does not willing
ton accept the change(Cameron and Green,2015). The employees resit change as they are
habitual to perform a task in a specific way, this hesitate them to avoid or resist change.
The organisation such as Sainsbury fails to encourage their employees to involve or
contribute in adopting the change in the organisation. It is important that every individual
or employee working in the organisation show their interest and involvement in the
implementation of various changes within the business in order to ensure that it have a
positive impact on the performance.
 Terrible culture move arranging – Sometimes, the administration or arranging group
neglects to comprehend that the change may influence the representatives or their
conduct inside the workplace. The arranging group inside Sainsbury's neglects to make
powerful choices or strides in the change procedure, the sentiments of the workers or
occupation duties powers the arranging group motel moving their plans and
methodologies. Along these lines, this turns into an obstruction in the change procedure
and oppose the association to receive the change. The chiefs and higher experts of the
Sainsbury's creates successful procedures and also centre around disregarding the
sentiments of the representatives. They create plans and rules by keeping the customs or
feelings of a person inside the working environment. The sentiments of the
representatives ought to be considered and given them a chance to comprehend the
significance or importance of the adjustment to execute change.

 Obscure current state – Adopting change and actualizing it is troublesome for wander that
do not have the information or thought of their present circumstance or
state(Doppelt,2017). The administration proficient inside Sainsbury's frequently attempt
to actualize and present change without understanding the present state and structure of
the organization or leading an appraisal. The administration don't perceive that the
neglecting to break down or distinguish the present plan or territory of Sainsbury's can
turn into a noteworthy boundary in the change procedure. In this way, administration
inside the association attempt to comprehend and break down the present condition of the
firm or the plan of the organization before presenting or executing the change inside the
business or working environment. It helps the administration in effectively receiving the
change and execute it viably to accomplish the hierarchical objective or goal.
 Association multifaceted nature – The associations, for example, Sainsbury's creates
intricate and troublesome procedures which prompts the many-sided quality in arranging
and actualizing the change. These complexities comprise complex items, procedures and
framework. Every one of these components build up a noteworthy obstruction to change
as every one of the individuals or representatives in the organization think that its
extremely hard to get it. The administration or pioneers of the association designs and
influence compelling techniques keeping in mind the end goal to evade this obstruction.
It is imperative for the firm to deal with the fast development and the multifaceted nature
by building up a viable and skilful approach. They attempt to make it basic by making
simple arrangements and giving the representatives a chance to comprehend the change
and also the positive effects.
P5 Various leadership theories to manage and deal with change in Sainsbury
There are different leadership theories or styles that can be used for dealing with the
change in each and every business or organisation. Sainsbury;'s organisational culture and goals
helps in identifying the most beneficial approaches to leadership which can be applied to imp
lament the change. The different leadership approaches or styles are as described below -
 Participative leadership – The participative leadership is also called as Democratic
leadership approach, this theory of leadership value the ideas and contribution of every
employee or individual working within the business or organisation. The participative

leadership style also helps in developing motivation among the employees by giving
them chance for contributing to the implementation of the change(Fullan,2014).
 Laissez-Faire – According to this leadership style the leaders or managers do not put
much effort or contribution in the supervision of the subordinated or team. It means the
leaders are not providing regular feedbacks or responses to the employees. It is not
considered as a much effective or successful for the Sainsbury to introduce or implement
a change.
 Autocratic leadership – This leadership style states that the power of decision making is
in the hands of the leaders, and they resist the involvement of other members or
employees for taking any decisions. This leadership style within the Sainsbury enable the
leaders or managers to take each and every decision regarding the change or change
management(Hayes,2014). This leadership approach creates a communication gap among
the employees working at different levels of an organisation.
CONCLUSION
The report concluded that the change is a most effective element or component in a
business or organisation. The change in any internal or external factors such as market
competition, technology etc has a great impact on the performance of employees as well as the
organisation. The report also described the various barriers in accepting or implementing a
change as well as leadership decisions within the Sainsbury. The study also determined different
approacher and theories of readership used by ASDA and Sainsbury to deal with the change in
the internal and external factors affecting the business performance.

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