College: KDENZ Sealand Colleges
Change Leadership and Management
Task one
1) Compare and contrast between any TWO change process models applicable at the SME Level.
2) From the above two models, select ONE and explain with the use of your research findings why it is better suited to guiding change within your chosen SME.
3) Analyse how your chosen change process model can help your chosen SME enhance its performance in ANY TWO specific triple bottom line criteria.
Introduction:-
There is a huge necessity to bring the changes that helps in the development of small medium enterprises (SMEs) of New Zealand. There is an huge importance to carry out the change process model that help the organization to make the proper growth. Moreover, three change process models that are applicable to make the change in the management. These models are McKinsey 7-S Model, Lewin Change Model Management and Kotter’s 8 Step Model. These all the models assist to make a huge change for the growth and development of the work.
Task 1
A) Contrasting and comparing the main two change process models that are helpful for SME level
Several changes help in the development of small medium enterprises of New Zealand market. In this study, Indian Style Company has been chosen to make the development on the changes. There are several changes rise in order to transform the small business into big business. This transformation would help the firm to reach in the hand of maximum customer of New Zealand. In order to make this transformation, there is a high necessary to work on the model plan for the development of the models (Radineh.ir, 2017). The main two change main process models that are applicable for the development of small medium enterprises (SMEs). These models are McKinsey 7-S Model and Kotter’s 8 Step Model.
Kotter’s 8 Step Change Model:-
This model is introduced by John Kotter to make the changes that helps to make the better campaigning in the firm. These process models are applicable with the help of 8 steps that are follows are:-
1. The changes that are developed by the 8 step process could be only possible by making the exact changes that might stay for long terms (Ceptureanu, 2015).
2. The persistent of the staying helps to make the effecting working of the change process model that is used in the organization of India in Style.
3. The goals that are needed to be achieved to make the short terms change of the management.
4. The changes are applied by creating the empowering of the staff members.
5. There is a huge important to communicate that helps in making the effective change in the organization (Hornstein, 2015).
6. There is a high requirement to build a superior team to make the effective changes in the company of India in Style.
7. Most importantly there is a need to increase the urgency to make the effective changes that assist in making the effective changes.
Figure: 1 Kotter’s 8 Steps Models
Source: (Ceptureanu, 2015)
McKinsey 7-S Model:-
This model has provided various approaches that help in making the changes based on the 7-S factors. The MCKinsey 7-S Model is formed by many professors to make the huge changes that help in the development of small business that is India in Style. This model is formed in the year of 1978 by formation of 7 S structure.
1. Skills:-
The skills are the most important areas to make the effective changes in the organization. Moreover, the skills are based upon the communication and the interpersonal training of the management as well as staff members (Zentner, 2015). The effective change would be only possible by making a high approach of developed skills that makes the company’s growth. In order to develop the skills among the workers there is a huge important factor to make the proper training. This helps the company to make the useful changes that are required by the management.
2. System:-
In order to make the change effective there is a huge important to make the proper working of the system. Moreover, the appropriate change would be only possible by coordinating properly with the management. The India in Style organization needs to develop the high quality of the system that assist the firm to develop in the making large business.
3. Staff:-
This is the most important part to make the effective working of the made changes. The staff includes to all the members working to develop the firm. This includes with the workers as well as the higher authority. In order to make a high profit, the staff members could fulfill the areas by making the effective changes that is required in the Company of India In Style.
4. Style:-
The management of the company carries the changes process models by following the path of exact styles and designs (Heracleous & Werres, 2016). The exact design and style of the working assists in making the effective changes in the organization of India in Style.
5. Shared Values:-
While working in the firm, there is a huge importance to carry out the shared values. The proper-shared values help to develop good values and ethics among the employees.
6. Structure:-
In order to make the changes there is a huge importance to know the structure of the firm. The changes would be only applicable if the structure of the India In Style is known properly by the higher authority.
7. Strategy:-
In order to make the effective change process there is a huge importance to know the exact strategy (Hatton et al. 2017). The exact strategic planning helps to make the change that is required in the company of India in Style.
Figure: 2 McKinsey’s 7-S Framework
Source: (Hatton et al. 2017)
In the Kotter’s 8 steps models are applied by following the proper 8 step model and in McKinsey 7-S Model are applied with the help of proper 7 S factors that are useful to make the changes.
B) The one-process models that are applied in the chosen SME. Explaining that it is better suited.
The most important process model is McKinsey 7-S Change Model. The McKinsey change process model are best suited to make the development of the organization that is India in Style. This models are based upon 7-S factors that assist to make the changes applicable for the chosen company that is India in Style. Moreover, this models are applicable based upon the two elements that is hard and soft elements (King et al. 2017). In the hard elements, it lies with the strategy, systems and structure. In the soft elements are applicable on skills, style, shared values and staff. Moreover, these models are based upon the four main things that is very important to make the changes applicable in the company.
a) All the areas of the parts might be applied as an important part in order to address in based manner that is unified.
b) This model provides an effective position to better understand of the company by diagnosing properly.
c) In order to make the changes there is an important for combining the emotional and rational areas.
d) The model also provides a pathway or guidance to make the exact change required in the company.
Hard Elements:-
Systems:-
In order to make the exact change there is a huge importance to make the changes in the systems of the organization that is India in Style. Moreover, in the system it includes with all the elements that is employees and management. The changes would be applicable upon all the stakeholders while working in the firm.
Strategy:-
In order to make the changes, there is a huge importance to make the exact strategic planning. Moreover, the proper planning of the strategy assists to make the changes that lie in the hard elements. There are high requirements to make the strategy to make the effective changes and the higher authority focuses these strategies. The higher authority can implement the better strategy to make the useful changes in the firm of India in Style.
Structure:-
In order to make the changes there is a huge importance to keep in mind about the structure. The effective changes are applicable upon all the stakeholders that are working in the firm of India in Style. The effective changes assist in making the exact formed structure that are applicable for making higher progress and development of the working. By making the better progress of the firm that is India in Style helps to gain higher profit.
Soft Element
Shared Values- The business may face various social problems during its developmental change the issues may be regarding the employment system, the leadership changes and other parties involving into the developmental process. Shared values is an process in this model which helps the organization to properly operate and solve these issues by introducing proper fundamental beliefs that the organization has on the developmental process with their respective concepts and principles on which the organization will work to achieve their wanted changes in the firm. It has helped various organizations in recognizing various opportunities that the organization has when it comes to developmental changes. The Model helps the organization in guiding it from various situations. It has become one of the most important element that the organization uses to ensure fluent development (Ceptureanu, 2015).
Skills-
The organization should ensure and recognize the skills they poseses and in what ways the organization is better than others in the market to increase their advantages in the market. This model helps in making sure that the company knows what are their strengths which help them to know there core competencies and capabilities which will help the organization to know hoe imply this strengths in the development process and achieve the desired goal faster. Skills can be recognized by organization for knowing its strength, which is very important for this company and will help the company to recognize its weakness and rectify them which will help the firm reach its desired goal on time.
Staff-
This model will help the organization in recognizing its human resource strengths by recognizing the efficiency of the current staff. Knowing the skills of the employees by knowing their respective educational qualification and their personal which are related to the organization it is important that the firm knows there staffing strength by knowing the skilled labors and the unskilled labor of the company.
Style-
The model will help the organization to know their respective behavioral pattern, the key groups, the mangers and other professional and how are there pattern of work. Recognizing the better pattern of the work style, which will help the organization in getting to their desired goal with greater efficiency and this, will also help to appraise the employees for their respective good performance, which will act as a source of motivation in the employees (Mazzarol Clark Reboud, 2014).
C) Analyzing the chosen change process model that can help the chosen SME enhance its performance in ANY TWO specific triple bottom line criteria
‘India in style’ being a fashion and clothing company needs transformational change in order to attract more consumers and customer to develop their business and to achieve marketing success it is important that the organization takes proper frameworks and models to imply changes which will be good for the company. The organization chose two models of which are The McKinsey 7-S Framework and Kotter 8 Step process model to bring necessary transformational change by implying these models that organization will benefit in terms of management (Naipinit, Kojchavivong, Kowittayako, Sakolnakorn, 2014).
Marketing and leadership as the with these transformational changes in the organization will lead to efficient production and rendering services. The efficiency of the firm will increase, the organization will be able to properly control the development process so as to change and rectify if any errors occur, through McKinsey model the company will be able to improve the performance of the company by providing better control and evaluating every process of change. This model will help the firm to observe the future changes, which will happen in the company, and to know there effects to the future of the organization. The model will also help to coordinate different departments and process in order to imply various change process. The process will also help the firm to recognize that what will be the best of implementation of a strategy that will give out the best result. The model help the organization in properly making out a strategy which will help the change process of the company, the structure can be formed easily of the change process to determine the way of achieving the desired goal of developmental change (Alshaher, 2013). proper system can defined in order to meet themiles stone and time schedules which will be formed in the development work. In this model, this will be considered as the hard elements, which are easier to define and identify. It will help in introduction of proper IT system, which will enhance the development process.
The model will also help the organization in soft element that are considered in the process like shared values that will help the organization in sharing the workload of the employees. The model will also help to develop proper skills of the employees in order to reach the desired goals faster in less space of time and the quality of the change that will occur will also be better as the employee skill in the work gets better. The staffing of the development change process will also enhance with the introduction of this change model with better staffing the organization will easily achieve various goals in the development work the staffing of skilled employers will help the organization in the p-productions process and the will also help in rendering better services. The model needs proper implementation for giving better result this model will help the organization to in building up new process and products and also will enhance the organization in bettering its leadership programs. the model can be used for understanding various elements that may affect the organizational change and there relation with it, it will help the organization in improving the strategies performance and implementation of the change system (Jurevicius, 2013). Kotter 8 Step process is a wide step and study in providing better leadership change the models helps in creating a sense of urgency that why the change is necessary and how will the change help the organization.
The model will also help the organization in building a proper guide, which will make it easier for the organization to imply proper changes. It will also help the organization to form proper strategies, vision, and initiative to make it clear for the organization to achieve proper organizational changes. The model will also help volunteer the change in leadership process to assess proper control on the leader action for the betterment of the organization by properly volunteering the changing process to ensure the leadership weakness and to rectify them. The model will also help the organization in removing various barriers that are related to the leadership changes and this makes it easier for the organization to implementation of the process. The models will also help the firm to establish short term miles stones that will help the organization in properly controlling the change process (Skinner Mudder Kaur, 2017).
The models also help the organization to accelerate the development process in the betterment of the leadership programs, the model will also help the company in proper implementation o the leadership change process by giving proper tolls that the origination will need to asses proper control over the leadership of the organization. These models will provide better vision, access, and implementation process to the organization to develop in a better way and to develop fast. It will help the organization social, environmental development of the firm (Kotter, 2013).
Conclusion:-
It has been concluded that there is a huge importance to make the effective changes. This model process is introduced by certain model theory in the better working of the organization that is India in Style. Moreover, this change model process belongs with McKinsey 7-S Model, Kotter’s 8 Step Models. The most important change model process belongs with McKinsey 7-S Model that are helpful for the company to make the changes effective by providing increasing profit and development.