Problem:
Please help with the following exercise found in the textbook: Managing Organizational Change: A Multiple Perspectives Approach written by Ian Palmer, Richard Dunford, and Gib Akin (2006).
Exercise:
Listed below are a number of reasons why people may be resistant to a change. For each of the reasons, identify at least one action that could be taken by management to reduce the prospect that it will be a significant source of resistance.
Reason for Resistance
- Dislike of change
- Discomfort with uncertainty
- Perceived negative effects on interest
- Attachment to established culture/ways of doing things
- Perceived breach of psychological contact
- Lack of conviction that change is needed
- Lack of clarity as to what is expected
- Belief that the specific change being proposed is inappropriate
- Belief that the timing is wrong
- Excessive change
- Cumulative effect of other changes in one's life
- Perceived clash with ethics
- Reaction to the experience of previous changes
- Disagreement with the way the change is being managed