Tuesday, October 29, 2019

The way change affects organizational strategy and leadership.


Something moves from one situation to another can be called as change. In business context change can be refer as on external changes such as technology, competitors and customers, political and social environment. It is also can be refer on internal changes such as re-engineering and re organization. Most of the authors are preferred to use the word transformation to describe change (Senge, 1999). Change is linked with creativity and innovation.
The way organizations create and sustain superior performance can be called as organizational strategy. Describe present organizational environment, industry conditions and Firm’s financial and competitive capabilities are represented and creating vision for future direction are done by organizational strategy. The major classified strategies are business level strategy, corporate level strategy, acquisition and restructuring strategies, international strategies and cooperative strategy. However strategic change is important in a situation of organizational change.
Strategy is simply not any preparation to a problem (Johnson, 1992). It is provided long term effect to organizations. Strategic decisions are increased through the application of managerial experience. They are improved external and internal sources of information. If employees able to identify various requirements of the organization then, organization can be easily understanding the reasons for applying strategic change. To gain contact to controlled markets and to maintain market stability strategic change should be implemented.
Organizations need to speed up the development of goods and services and wanted to maintain market leadership in order to face insecurity. Organizations are also wanted to share major resources and R&D facilities in order to create economies of scale.  Generally, companies are needed to recruit learning culture to develop new business techniques and capabilities. Strategic change should be employed to overcome the weaknesses and to gain strengths for long term sustainability.  
Organizations are agreed that effective management is one of the most important suppliers for the overall change and organizational change. Smart managers are those who have the experience and knowledge of the experience that enables them to effectively and effectively manage the tasks of daily living. Effective leadership is still needed to make effective changes. Culture is important, even if it concerns organizational change, and it can be included in the culture of secrecy, the culture of individualism, and the culture of silence (Cooper, 2006). Capacity management can manage and manage these issues. Competencies are the ability to manage knowledge and other skills and abilities.


Figure 1: Leadership competence for effective change management
Source: (Berglund, 2007)
Organizational change is not only important, it is also a requirement for time, and leadership can play a key role. The management 'Vision' and 'Innovative Approach' characteristics which can lead to organizations that are better able to manage organizational changes and may increase success.

References

Berglund, 2007. Risk Conception and risk management in corporate innovation. International Journal of Innovation Management, 11(04), p. 497–513 .
Cooper, B. &., 2006. The new world of work and organizations. Human Resource Management Review, 16(02), pp. 83-85.
Johnson, 1992. Comparison of the lipid regulation of yeast and rat CTP: phosphocholine cytidylyltransferase expressed in COS cells.. Biochem J 285 ( Pt 3), pp. 15-20.
Senge, 1999. Learning for a change. Fast Co, pp. 178-185.


Comparison between the effectiveness of different leadership styles in organizational contexts.



Different leadership styles stay alive in work environment. Organizational goals and the leadership style must be fit. Structure and the culture of an organization depends on leadership style (Tsai, 2011). There are four main leadership styles as follow.

Source: (Expert Program Management, 2017)  
Author was paid attention on two organizational context and provided comparison between the effectiveness of bureaucratic leadership style and transactional leadership style  which are assumed through literature on certain organizational contexts as below.
Organization
Maliban Biscuit Manufactories Limited
Wijaya Products Pvt Ltd
Leadership style
Bureaucratic leadership style
Transactional leadership style
Urgency of a task or time pressure
Maliban Biscuit Manufactories Limited is a manufacturing company. With learning culture its’ easy to control employees using company procedure and company policies. Management takes all decisions according the company procedure.
Management is not being punishable but motivated employees with rewards and bonuses. That has been influence employees to improve upon performance.
Experience of team members
According to their matrix structure, company needs experienced employees to work under company procedures (Munaf, 2018).
Management is given minimum decision-making authority to inexperienced employees.
Management is not used punishments for inexperienced employees. Company has made competition between both experienced and inexperienced employees for rewards.
Because it motivates and encourages employees to stick with the overall system.
Level of danger and situation
Bureaucratic leadership style is effective to use in dangerous situations to control department s of the Maliban Biscuit Manufactories Limited.
Its’ not impact badly to the company because all decisions are getting according to the company procedure.
Wijaya products Pvt Ltd is a task-oriented company (Ada Derana, 2019). In case transactional leadership style is effective for this company. It has helped to improve employee’s performance for dangerous situations. For an example when the government change quality policies, employees have knowledge how they work to increase the quality of products.
Advantages
Increase the performance of the employees themselves is affected increase company productivity.
Easy to control overall company.
Employees encourage company procedures
Under this leadership style employees have clear instructions and target.
There is always being motivated employees in the company. Its impact to the success of Wijaya products Pvt Ltd.

Disadvantages
Some employees can be dissatisfied with the leadership. It can be made law morale in them.
Maliban Biscuit Manufactories Limited can be impossible to be a leader in industry. Because company get decisions according to their old procedure.
These leadership style based on the decisions according to the system of the company.
Sometimes management can be flexible.
(Author Developed)

References

Ada Derana, 2019. Wijaya Products walks away with not one, but two accolades at SLIM Nielsen Peoples’ Awards 2019. Ada Derana, 27 March.
Expert Programme Management, 2017. Leadership Styles. [Online] 
Available at: https://expertprogrammanagement.com/2017/02/leadership-styles/
[Accessed 29 October 2019].

Munaf, S., 2018. Marketing environment of Maliban, s.l.: academia.
Tsai, Y., 2011. Relationship between Organizational Culture, Leadership Behavior and Job Satisfaction. BMC Health Serv Res, 11(1), pp. 26-27.