Individual Resistance To Change

RESISTANCE TO CHANGE
-Sources of individual resistance to change
There are plenty of reasons why individual resistance to change human habit. Habit is a routine behaviour that is repeated regularly and has tendency to occur unconsciously. Human are created with feeling and every human being have their own habit that may not the same with others. Life is complex enough and people do not need to consider hundred options to deal with it. When people faced with a change, they usually accustom based on their manner. Since habits provide both security and comfort, habit may well-established and difficult to change.
Security also included one of the causes in resistance to change. Based on International Association of social Science Research, people

Group inertia refers to the term that applies the physics concept of inertia to another field such as psychology and sociology. This term normally used to describe resistance to change or the endurance of stable relationship in societies or social group. The term of inertia itself defined as the nature of an object, which tends to oppose any change in their original condition, whether stationary or moving condition. If people want to change their habit or behavior, group norm normally act as constraint. For example, and individual union member maybe willing to accept change if the change in his job suggested by management. But they tend to resist change if union member dictate resisting any unilateral change made by

Some people are usually being a friend with others within or outside organization. As an individual, definitely want to know the impact of the changes that will face by them. If they believe that the change will cause bad impact and make them losing something worthwhile in their life, so they tend to resist changing. The introduction of participative decision making or self-managed work teams is the kind of change that is often seen as threatening by supervisors and middle managers. The last common reason that included in source of organizational resistance to change is threat to established resource allocation. Most of people especially people who are work within organization that control organization’s resource in huge amount, they seen change as biggest threaten. It is because they assume that change will give them bad impact in their work place whether the change will decrease the budget or eliminate their