1. What do you think caused Deborah react in such manner towards Melinda? Do you think these reactions are justified?
Change means make things different. Organizational change is the change of the way in which people are organized. The organizational change can be as an organization restructuring in relative to resources. For instance, human resources are used in this case. Nevertheless, there is a human resource change in Housing Industry Association Brisbane. The executive director promoted 2-year-old working staffs which is called Melinda Henderson to be the executive support manager. At the beginning, the change in company is hard for some part of employees to change the attitudes, habits and ethics at work.
The promotion of Melinda Henderson in the Housing Industry Association Brisbane created a problem. An office manager which is named Deborah Walcott has been work in Housing Industry Association Brisbane for 15 years do not promote because of the job attitudes. This is the reason why Deborah Walcott responds in many bad ways to Melinda Henderson. To cite an example, Deborah Walcott has bad-mouthing attitude against Melinda Henderson and makes some slanderous words about her to other staffs in the company. In my opinion, Deborah Walcott was caught in a change resistance. In this situation, it can establish two ways to solve the change resistance. Firstly, Deborah Walcott feels unfair to promote Melinda Henderson because Melinda Henderson only work two years in the company but she already work for 15 years. Secondly, Deborah Walcott resisted the change because of her own selfish acts. Deborah Walcott notices that Melinda’s promotion means that she does not have the chance to be the position that she really want.
In this case, we can clearly find that Deborah Walcott break two hours break into two parts. She always finished her work one hour early and uses another hour to do the personal things. The person reasons of Deborah