Resistance to Change
ASSESSMENT DECLARATION
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FACULTY OF BUSINESS AND LAW
1. ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS STUDENT NAME:Hamdhoon Abdul Hameed | STUDENT ID NUMBER | UNIT OF STUDY:MOB1102 | | TITLE OF ASSESSMENT:Employees might resist change because of self-interest, misunderstanding and distrust, and a general intolerance for change. Outline the five techniques that companies can use to manage resistance to change that are described in your textbook and discuss using the refereed journal articles you have researched for this essay. | DATE DUE: DATE SUBMITTED: | LECTURER’S NAME:Anita | TUTORS NAME:Chitra | TUTORIAL GROUP/CLASS TIME:Tutorial 1 | How to Manage Resistance to Change in an Organization
Resistance to change is caused by self interest, misunderstanding and distrust and a general intolerance for change. People resist change out of self interest because they fear that change will cost or deprive them of something they value. Resistance to change is natural and inevitable, managers need to unfreeze resistance to change to create successful change programs. Resistance often occurs when one firm buying another firm or a firm enters totally new market with their existing employees or the changes made by the management are hard to follow to employees they resist the changes. The five techniques that a manager can use to manage resistance to change are Education and Communication, Participation, Negotiation, Top management support and Coercion (Williams & McWilliams 2010/2012). The purpose of this essay is to identify what are the different kinds of resistance to changes faced by different companies and how much it affects the productivity and operations of the company and how the company overcomes with that and which are the techniques they used and how effective those techniques was to companies based on the various Journal articles and my
This form must be completed, dated and attached to each assessment task that you submit for marking.
FACULTY OF BUSINESS AND LAW
1. ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS STUDENT NAME:Hamdhoon Abdul Hameed | STUDENT ID NUMBER | UNIT OF STUDY:MOB1102 | | TITLE OF ASSESSMENT:Employees might resist change because of self-interest, misunderstanding and distrust, and a general intolerance for change. Outline the five techniques that companies can use to manage resistance to change that are described in your textbook and discuss using the refereed journal articles you have researched for this essay. | DATE DUE: DATE SUBMITTED: | LECTURER’S NAME:Anita | TUTORS NAME:Chitra | TUTORIAL GROUP/CLASS TIME:Tutorial 1 | How to Manage Resistance to Change in an Organization
Resistance to change is caused by self interest, misunderstanding and distrust and a general intolerance for change. People resist change out of self interest because they fear that change will cost or deprive them of something they value. Resistance to change is natural and inevitable, managers need to unfreeze resistance to change to create successful change programs. Resistance often occurs when one firm buying another firm or a firm enters totally new market with their existing employees or the changes made by the management are hard to follow to employees they resist the changes. The five techniques that a manager can use to manage resistance to change are Education and Communication, Participation, Negotiation, Top management support and Coercion (Williams & McWilliams 2010/2012). The purpose of this essay is to identify what are the different kinds of resistance to changes faced by different companies and how much it affects the productivity and operations of the company and how the company overcomes with that and which are the techniques they used and how effective those techniques was to companies based on the various Journal articles and my