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The Importance Of Employee Resistance To Change In Organizations

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The organisations in the changing world go through different changes of evolution and revolution to prosper. However, it has happened that most change initiatives backfire because changes in case are not managed appropriately leading to the resistance of employees and it ultimately cripples the organisation (Boohene & Williams, 2012). Burnes and Jackson (2011) explain that the ability of management depends on the maintenance and creation of such climate that may exploit resistant behaviour while maintaining the environment of acceptance along with the support in most effective way. The resistance is found to be an inevitable response to major changes in organisations and different researchers in this domain have stressed the reason for failure …show more content…

Research Questions of Proposed Study
The research questions of proposed study can be formulated as follows:
• What are the factors and reasons of employee resistance to change in organisations?
• What is the influence of factors on employees’ resistance to changes in organisations?
• How the identified factors influence the future development of organisations?
• How management can overcome the resistance to change by employees in organisations?

1.4. Problem Statement
It is evident that the implementation of technological advancements has focused on the success of systems implemented and not on the change through which employees go through. There is insufficient literature on the change management of employees highlighting the influence on them or the ways through which employees cope with these sorts of changes. It is stated that the insufficient information on the influence on employees along with the wellbeing does not imply that there is no literature on the change. However, the issue appeared to be the insufficient communication and training of employees during the implementation of technological advancements and the identification of success factors for management of …show more content…

Choi (2011) studied that reduced participation of employees led to the mistrust of management while increasing the resistance to change. It can be said that employees may resist changing due to the organisational history and culture in such a way that previous performance of organisations related to change projects failed or employees are found least interested to participate in change process. Oreg, et al (2011) assess that employee opposes to change due to the additional responsibilities, new processes, or new technologies. The changes with reduced motivation to involve employees with insufficient consideration of interests of employees in this manner reduce the initiatives and extent of their commitment. Moreover, different researchers have identified different factors influencing the employee resistance to change and they include communication process, employee participation, and change in facilitation processes in change process to enhance the effectiveness of organisations. It is important to understand the role being played by the basic factors influencing the perceptions of employees towards the change of

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