The APA Essay

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Introduction3

Discussion4

The PEST Analysis4

The Political Factors5

The Economic Factors5

The Social Factors6

The Technological Factors6

The Type of Change7

The Different Frameworks of Change Management8

The Different Approaches to Change8

The Change Models9

The Objectives and Aims of Change9

The Method and Process of Change9

The Strategies' Implementation10

The Force Field Analysis by Lewin10

The WIFM and Stakeholder Analysis11

The Potency and Sources of Forces by Harris and Beckhard12

The Capability and Readiness by Harris and Beckhard12

The Implementation Plan of Tesco13

Conclusion13

The APA Essay

Introduction

Tesco Plc. is headquartered in the United Kingdom and is a general merchandise retailer and a British multinational grocery. According to measures of revenues, it is the third-largest retailer in the world. Across North America, Europe and Asia, it is the grocery market leader in the United Kingdom and has stores in fourteen countries. Within the group, its core United Kingdom business is significant, with over three thousand stores and employees. The dynamics of the general and food retail stores got transformed by the one-stop-shop and the supermarket. In recent years, there has been a focus on offering customers a reason to shop at their stores, increase in effectiveness by blurring of formats as retailers 'match and mix' and multi-format capability.

The innovative use of technology has been a core part of the Tesco expansion strategy. It was the first organisation that aimed to reduce queues by use of cameras and establishment of self-service tills. Use of its own-brand products was another plank of Tesco's strategy that encompassed several product categories such as financial services, clothing home, beverage and food. The 'Tesco approach' is the final plank in its strategy, based on earning customer's lifetime loyalty and creation of value for them. The philosophy of Tesco is known as 'Every Little Helps', which is based on their customers, their services and products and their staff.

It makes Tesco unique from others and reflects how they run their businesses and represents everything the organisations stands for, by doing the little things that really matter staff and customers, Tesco achieved to be the market leader in the retail sector. It reflects that its marketing strategy is lined with its human resource strategy as it believes in providing equal opportunity to everyone and treating them with respect. An organisation can be successful if these common themes like, innovation, competitiveness and quality are related with specificity to each particular operation's situation and can be positioned across the business (Nadler & Tushman, 1989, pp. 199). Every employee of the organisation must be treated fairly; else they will result in negative behaviours, like, less cooperation, lower work quality, lower productivity and stealing.

According to research, negative and positive views toward organisational change are resulted from people with high-quality employment relationships. In comparison to people low-quality employment relationships, the new norms created by a change within an organisation are more widely acceptable by people with high quality employment relationships (Ford & Et.al, 2008, pp. 362). Since Tesco, has adopted a strategy that puts its employees directly at the centre of thing, therefore, its organisational objective is very ...