Strategic Change Management and Leadership Assignment

Assignment Task

Purpose of this assignment

This assignment would enable the learner to build an understanding and appreciation of contemporary and seminal theories, concepts and models, learners will examine the role of leaders and managers as strategic agents for change in a chosen organizational context taking change types and change choices in to consideration. It is encouraged that the relevant assessment criteria be addressed in relation to the organisation you currently working for or an organisation that you have knowledge of.

Scenario

The assignment will be ideally based on the learners’ own workplaces/job role and require you to undertake in-depth research into an organisation. To address each section of the assignment, you are to select, ideally the organization you work for, or any another organisation you may be familiar with. It would be useful for you to choose an organisation that is operating in an environment that requires it to refocus its change strategy.

Role of leadership in strategic organisational change

You are required to identify the concepts of strategic change management, different perspective on change and formulate a suitable change management strategy for a chosen organizational scenario. You are required to demonstrate understanding on seminal theories, concepts and models related to strategic change management with proper evaluation and identify the role of leaders and managers in change context.

You need to provide a review on different types of organizational changes and their effect on change choices. You are expected to understand and explain the change from different organisational culture and organisational learning perspectives. Further, you are required to conduct a situational analysis to find the effect of internal and external factors on chosen organizational change which the answer is then need to be elaborated by explaining the involvement of change leaders in change design.

You need strengthen the answer by applying the knowledge of enabling organizational change through suitable initiatives and analysing the importance of employee engagement. 

Your report should have the following areas addressed in the light of the selected organisation:

• Critically examine current and seminal theories, concepts and models related to strategic change management (A1)
• Critically discuss the role of leaders and managers as agents for change(A2)
• Analyse types and styles of organisational change (A3)
• Critically discuss how change context affects change choices for the selected organization (A4)
• Discuss change from an organizational culture perspective (B1)
• Discuss change from a power and politics perspective (B2)
• Discuss change from an organisational learning perspective (B3)
• Analyse the internal and external environments which influence organisational change (C1)
• Discuss, in consultation with others, how change transition is designed by strategic leaders and managers (C2)
• Critically evaluate ways in which strategic management enabled the conditions for organisational change in a given context (C3)
• Evaluate the importance of employee engagement to organizational change (C4)

Section

You are now required deliver a presentation by designing a suitable change strategy and justify the chosen change strategy for the organization you have selected in section “A” in the form of a “Plan for successful strategic change”. You need to produce a suitable strategic plan inclusive of following: a change management timeline, a clear roadmap towards the change, insights on change requirements, a plan for supporting employees, a mechanism for monitoring and measuring change objectives linking leadership requirements in the change process. The justification should be supported by setting SMART change objectives, establishing reasons for detailed strategic steps followed, provide supporting evidence, and define clear responsibilities.

The structure the of the presentation should ideally include the following areas:

• An introduction to the chosen organization
• Description on the organisational change context
• Examine an approach to enabling successful change (D1)
• Produce justified change management strategy for an organisation (D2)

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