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As organizations are facing challenges in the globalization era, changes within the management in the organization must be made to ensure it can position itself in the competitive and ever changing environment. A well planned change management is crucial to ensure that change can be made to the entire organization and effectively implemented. Change management is widely known in the private sector, however, it is progressively rising in the public sector. Organizational change must be driven by a good leadership so that it is effectively and efficiently administered. This paper aimed to evaluate how prior researches had been dealing with change management in recent years taking in account of leadership styles of the managers. Well-known literatures will be discussed to outline the importance of effective leadership style for managing organizational change. The overall view from the past studies show that a good manager has the ability to drive the employees to accept change initiatives in the organization. The study recognize one of the factors to manage change in the organization that could be practically used to steer the top management, leading to corporate future direction in progressive society and vibrant economy , worth fully for further study.
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To Cite this Article: Zainol, N. Z., Kowang, T. O., Hee, O. C., Fei, G. C., & Kadir, B. Bin. (2020). Managing Organizational Change through Effective Leadership: A review from Literature. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 10(12), 707–716.
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