Resistance to Change Paper Organizations initiate change efforts for countless reasons. Failure to properly manage these changes can cause an organization to decline or even fail. Most organizations are faced with ongoing changes due to internal and external pressures. These pressures can lead to strategic changes that affect the entire organization or incremental changes that have a direct impact on a specific area. Given the economy today‚ organizations must continually scan their external
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ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE MANAGEMENT Assignment 2 – Literature Review It is not the strongest of the species that survives‚ nor the most intelligent‚ but the one most responsive to change. - Charles Darwin
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The Life Cycle of Resistance to Change What is change? After doing some research I came discovered that there are many different definitions of the word change. Webster’s dictionary says that change means to give a different course‚ position‚ or direction to (Merrriam-Webster‚ 2010). Whenever you add the word change to organizational it takes on a somewhat different meaning. Organizational change is the term used to describe the transformation process that a company goes through in response to
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Managing resistance to change The top obstacle to successful change is employee resistance at all levels: Front-line‚ middle managers‚ and senior managers. A change in employee attitude IS possible! "Garrison Wynn‚ I just wanted to say Thank You! You will never know the impact that you have made on my life. I started back to work today with a new attitude about my job. I am more confident in myself and my ability to do my best. I do have an important job and it is important to learn how to
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In most cases‚ the problems arising from the change is maladjusted. Many organizations are thus designed to protect the basic functions by changes and disturbances in the wider environment. In these organizations‚ all functions in one of the following three categories: primary‚ secondary‚ and regional. 1. The main functions (administration)‚ coordination is achieved through standard operations. 2. secondary (support functions)‚ coordination is achieved through design. 3. In regional (sales) through
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Innovation remains a remarkable experience that challenges individuals to reflect outside the box. It helps in our personal and professional lives when responding to change. There are numerous innovative processes. For example: the five discovery skills‚ design thinking‚ the blue ocean strategy‚ job mapping and the two routes to resilience to name a few. The ability of creating innovation can happen with the sacrifice of time. An individual must have the willingness to think and re-think ways to
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Dealing with and managing resistance to change The top two reasons for employee resistance are 1. 2. A lack of awareness about the change Comfort with the ways things are and fear of the unknown. The Top 10 Reasons Employees Resist Change 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. The individual’s personal predisposition to change. Surprise and fear of the unknown. Climate of mistrust. Fear of failure. Loss of status and/or job security. Peer pressure. Disruption of cultural traditions and/or group relationships
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Resistance to change can be difficult to overcome even when it is not detrimental to those concerned. But the attempt must be made. The first step is to analyze the potential impact of change by considering how it will affect people in their jobs. The analysis should indicate which aspects of the proposed change may be supported generally or by specified individuals and which aspects may be resisted. So far as possible‚ the potentially hostile or negative reactions of people should be identified
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moral policing is caused and what are the changes that cause moral policing and why they are resisted. Finally this paper helps us understand the rationale behind moral policing. HYPOTHESIS Moral policing occurs when changes as an effect of modernization are integrated into our society which result in and decay of moral cultural and traditional values and beliefs1 of our society Effect of modernity in India Adam Smith and Herbert Spenser termed change as a result of aggregation of voluntary exchange
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Resistance to Change MGT/426 Resistance to Change One of the many attributes that contribute to the lack of a successful implementation of a change within an organization is the “resistance to change”. As with any form of resistance‚ resistance to change is something that can bring about a strong response. Many experts refer to the resistance to change as a cancer within the organization‚ and the main killer of progress and good-intentions. While change and resistance to change will be analyzed in
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