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    The Resistance to Change

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    The Resistance to Change Against better judgment‚ moral correctness‚ or just plain logic‚ it is in human nature to resist change. Throughout history it has been shown that there will always be a great deal of resistance to change‚ even if that change may be positive. Sometimes to resist is not voluntarily chosen‚ and varying levels of resistance can depend on the subject. There are times in everybody’s lives where they resist due to personal reasoning; the way they were raised‚ culture‚ and tradition

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    Contents Introduction-The need for change .................................................................................................................................... 2 1. Resistance to change ............................................................................................................................................ 2 2. OD Practioners ...............................................................................................................................

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    Resistance to Change Introduction – Change Concept Resistance to change is a response given by individuals or groups when they perceive that a change occurring is a threat to them‚ (“Resistance to Change”‚ 2002). Resistance to change from employees can cause the change initiative to fail as a result of not properly implementing the change strategy. Approach – Change Agent In order to implement change effectively in an organization‚ it is very important for a change agent to know the signs of

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    Acts of Resistance

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    living: Everyday resistance to violence and other forms of oppression” (Wade‚ 1997) makes the case that an often overlooked phenomenon in the clinical encounter is the various ways that the client has fought back and resisted his or her aggressors‚ and the importance of high-lighting this act of resistance‚ no matter how small or subtle‚ as healthy. Through sound reasoning and clinical case vignettes‚ Wade succeeds in demonstrating how small acts of living can be acts of resistance against violence

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    Romance Of Resistance

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    Romance of Resistance: Tracing Transformations of Power Through Bedouin Women‚” Lila Abu-Lughod discusses the growing resistance of Bedouin women of the Libya-Egypt region to the power dynamic embedded in their culture (Abu-Lughod 41 – 42). From her work in this region‚ Abu-Lughod hopes that through the discovery of the attempts of women to overcome the male to female power dynamic in this region‚ humans can better understand power through oppression. Once the relationship between resistance to the structure

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    Resistance to Change Organizational change is the movement of an organization away from its present state and toward some desired future state to increase its effectiveness. (George et al‚ pg 567) Organizations need to change in the modern day market place. New technologies‚ globalization‚ foreign trade‚ investments and constantly shifting marketplaces demand the need for flexibility‚ adaptation‚ and change. The downside to this is in an organizations employees. People by nature resist change

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    Persepolis Resistance

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    Resistance noun/ re-zis-tense Resistance is the process of creating a fair world by voicing the nontrivial injustices that plague society’s institutions and by fighting with action to resolve those inequities. Resistance takes many forms‚ and all of the texts demonstrate the full definition of resistance‚ but the different clauses and phrases will be best exemplified by certain texts. In Persepolis‚ Satrapi shows that the manifestations of resistance that she saw in her childhood ultimately existed

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    people buy into them very quickly and easily. Other changes are met with resistance. If not handled properly‚ this resistance to the change can overcome the change agent thus rendering the desired change impossible to accomplish. Change Agents Contributions to Change Resistance As a change agent‚ one’s desire is implement the desired change. Behavior of the change agent can sometimes however lead to increased resistance to change. These contributions include “breaking agreements and violating

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    Electricity and Resistance

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    ELECTRICITY HOTS Questions for Practice 1. Name a substance whose resistance almost remains unchanged by increase of temperature. 2. Name two special characteristics of heater coil. 3. A wire of resistance 4 ohms is bent to form a circle. What is the resistance between two diametrically opposite ends? 4. How does the resistance of a conductor change if its temperature is increased? 5. A current of 4A flows in a wire of resistance 60 ohms. Calculate electrical energy consumed in 2 minutes. 6. V-I

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    Unarmed forces seems like an unlikely form of resistance‚ but in the context of the Holocaust‚ it represents small‚ individual acts of courage and bravery that resulted in a life or lives being saved. One of these acts included leaving the ghetto and living on the Aryan side‚ as a mean to stay alive‚ this was known as ‘passing’. This was supported as resistance because of it’s nature to outwit‚ defy and ultimately resist the aims of the Germans. The danger of being caught did not stop after the passing

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