Resistance to Change
Resistance to change is the most important facets of change management and resistance is human nature to react to changes. Organizations must make every effort to implement changes with minimum hassle rather than resisting changes.
Reasons for Resistance to Change
Change resistance is common in every organization, and leaders must be able to understand the true causes for resistance in order to succeed in the change process.
• Employees are looking for an easy way to continue doing the same task they've always done. They have a hard time implementing fresh ideas.
• Employees who have been impacted by the change process will always fight since changes inevitably bring with them changes in power, influence, and worker responsibilities.
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Employees who prefer to stick to their routines rather than try new things and
take risks will constantly reject change. This will occur due to the
organizational staff's lack of innovation.
Types of Resistance to Change
Resistance to change can be categorized as follows,
Logical Resistance
This form of
resistance arises primarily as a result of the time it takes for employees who
are unaffected to adjust to changes. After computers became widespread,
accountants, for example, had to transition from paper accounting to digital
accounting. It will take some time to become used to this technique.
Psychological
Resistance
This kind of
resistance occurs due to mental and psychological factors. Employees frequently
resistant to change as they are less tolerant to change, fear of the unknown,
dislike towards the management, etc.
Sociological Resistance
This sort of
resistance is based on the group's shared beliefs and conventions, rather than
on individuals. Individuals may desire to change, but will not do so owing to
peer pressure from their peer group. For example, if an employee's union
organizes a protest against new management rules, all employees are under
pressure to join in.
How to
overcome Resistance to Change
Because of changes always face resistance, managers should concern on possibilities to overcome and help their workforce to adapt to new variations in functioning.
Leaders must be able to convince employees that the necessity of proposing changes and positive factors of the changes. Management can consider the following implementations to make changes smoothly.
- Changes should
not occur in one go as it is easier to implement them in stages.
- Changes should
never cause security problems for the employees.
- Leaders must
consider the ideas of all workers on whom the proposed change will have an
effect.
- If managers
portray leadership by first adapting to the changes themselves, employees
are less likely to resist.
- Sufficient prior training of employees can help them accept changes with confidence.
Importance of Employee participation
Employee
participation is critical to the success of the change process, since it makes
them less likely to resist change implementation.
Leaders can do
this by convening small informal meetings or conferences with the team.
Managers should present all of the proposed modifications' relevant details.
Employees must be encouraged to voice their opinions.
References
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People are reluctant to change. We have to to manage such situations when it is required for the betterment of the organization.
ReplyDeleteThats true most of people reluctant to change.The refusal to adjust to new conditions is known as resistance to change. It might be clandestine or overt, organized or unorganized. Employees may discover they don't like or desire a change and express their displeasure in public, which may be quite disruptive.
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DeleteThank you for sharing very important factors.
ReplyDeleteIf some one doesn't like change with time and the modern technologies who can't survive at any organisations..
ReplyDeleteThats ture.Best example for this pandemic situation.
DeleteBusiness environment always change. So every organization have change to win the compitition.
ReplyDeleteyes Akila we have to change to win competitive advantage.Factors that cause a change in an organization.
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1) Change in governmental policies.
2) Change in market demand.
3) Changed technology.
4) Social changes.
5) Failure.
6) Competitive innovation.
7) Cost Cutting.
The most common negative impact of resistance to change is the inability to achieve the organisations' goals and objectives.
ReplyDeleteAs an evidence, Burnes (2004) opined that employees resist change because of fear that the change will contradicts their personal interests and as defensive stand, they will prevent change to happen.
Human beings are naturally wired to fear change for several reasons. However, a fear of change may be more intense when the change is not within a person’s control.
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