UKCBC RQF Unit 17: Understanding and Leading Change Report

This report, prepared for RQF Unit 17, focuses on understanding and leading change within organizations. It begins with an introduction to the topic and then explores various leadership approaches, including autocratic, democratic, transformational, transactional, bureaucratic, and situational leadership. The report examines the extent to which each approach can facilitate organizational change, using John Good Shipping as a case study. It includes a critical evaluation of the effectiveness of these approaches and concludes by summarizing the key findings. The report is supported by references to academic sources and provides valuable insights into change management strategies.

UNDERSTANDING AND LEADING
CHANGE

TABLE OF CONTENT
1. INTRODUCTION
2. DIFFERENT LEADERSHIP APPROACHES FOR DEALING WITH CHANGE
3. EXTENT TO WHICH LEADERSHIP APPROACH CAN DELIVER
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE
4. CRITICALLY EVALUATION
5. CONCLUSION

INTRODUCTION
In order to leading with change, leadership capability enable in the organization to
accelerate changes that takes initiatives and involve entire business to identifying,
implementing and sustaining important that ensure long term success in the business. This
presentation explains different leadership approaches explained that helps to deal with
change in different organizational context.

Different Leadership
Approaches
 Following are explained some leadership approaches that effectively deals with
change:
1. Autocratic leadership approach - Autocratic leadership style is more extreme version
of transactional leadership.
2. Democratic leadership approach - In this kind of leadership approach, leaders gather
ideas and opinion of whole team members in their business goals and objectives.

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 Transformational leadership approach - According to this
leadership approach, John Good Shipping can deal with
change through considered most desirable employees to
show transformational leadership.
 Transactional leadership approach - Transactional
leadership style focused on group organization with
establishing clear chain of command and align
management activities.

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 Bureaucratic leadership approach - This type of leadership approach is highly
regulated and implemented within the administrative environment.
 Situational leadership approach - Situational leadership approach is useful to perform
different tasks in systematic manner. This is because, leaders work in business to
influence business in positive manner.

Extent to which leadership approach can
deliver organizational change
In order to deal with organizational change, it can be stated that in John Good
Shipping using democratic leadership approach that assists to involve several members in
the business with their ideas and opinion. With this consideration, it can be stated that
organizational changes successful develop to focus on sharing ideas and opinion with each
other..

Critically evaluation....
Leadership approaches helps to deal with change in John Good Shipping in systematic
manner to attain overall goals and objectives. With this regard, all staff members are
included in respect to deal with change so that the chosen business can easily promote their
systematic work in change management strategy. As critically evaluation, bureaucratic
leadership style is useful that assists to distribute official duties and responsibilities for
management and decision making.

CONCLUSION
 This presentation determined that there are numerous
leadership models & approaches which are important in order to
manage changes in the organization.

REFERENCES
Al Barwani, T., Flores, M.A. and Imig, D. eds., 2018. Leading Change in Teacher
Education: Lessons from Countries and Education Leaders around the Globe.
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Burke, W.W., 2017. Organization change: Theory and practice. Sage Publications.
Bushe, G.R. and Marshak, R.J., 2016. The dialogic mindset: Leading emergent change in a
complex world. Organization Development Journal. 34(1). pp.37-65.
Doppelt, B., 2017. Leading change toward sustainability: A change-management guide for
business, government and civil society. Routledge

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