Resistance in Organization Provides Useful Insights for Managers Assignment 2022

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Resistance in organization provides useful insights for managers
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Resistance in organization provides useful insights for managers
1. Introduction
Resistance in organizations is a phenomenon that has been described as a process that
obstructs the management process in the organization since it affects the ability to achieve the
intended changes. However, others have argued that resistance is not always negative since it
seeks to maintain a status quo within the organization. This means that the role of resistance is
based on the fact that there is a need to observe the resistance that the organization receives and
how people within the organization respond. In other cases, resistance is a way of ensuring that
management can explore the issues within the change process. This means that the control
process is supposed to be viewed as part of the management process that creates insights on the
change process and what needs to be done to address the said changes. The insights that are
provided by the resistance to change form the basis on which to address the change management
process. Kurt Lewin's model of organizational change requires the unfreezing of the issues
within the organization that need to lead to organizational change. Thus resistance is a way of
provides insights on how the change needs to be done and how it will meet the needs of the
organization. This essay argues that resistance to change provides useful insights that can be
utilized in the organization to achieve better change outcomes.
2. Key concepts
Organizational control
Organizational control looks at the way agents within the business can establish and
maintain control over the organization. This is based on the existing rules, guidelines, and
procedures for directing work and business processes for employees. This means that rules are
set for employee behavior and organizational practices that set regulations and internal controls
that define the business processes. Control is achieved by maintaining authority over the whole

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organization with systems that define business processes (Briand, 2016, p. 7). This means that
the role of control in the organization is to create a business environment with procedures that
determine and define business activities. In this case, control needs to be seen as something
different which is defined by organizational structures that are defined by the internal regulations
that have been put in place. To achieve control the organization must have clear guidelines on
business processes that define the specific requirements that have to be met in the organization.
To achieve control, the employee is positioned in the managerial discourse of work and must
obey the set rules and regulations (Alvesson & Willmott 2001, p.3). Resistance to organizational
change is mostly regarded as a reaction towards control that limits the abilities of the employees
to operate freely.
Resistance in organizations
Organizational change has the effect of shifting the status quo form the current position to
a new state that employees may not be aware of. Resistance is the inability of the employees to
adopt the proposed changes in the organization and the preference to stick to old tendencies.
Resistance is sometimes regarded as a functional conflict that arises from the reaction on the
proposed changes or reorganization of the structure of the organization. Pullen & Rhodes (2013,
p.90) add that resistance is supposed to be seen as ethics grounded in the freedom of the
individual to engage in alternatives that explore the undecided space within the business
environment to increase or reduce outcomes. The level of resistance in the organization varies
depending on the nature of the proposed changes and thus can be overt, implicit, immediate, or
deferred where the methods for dealing with such resistance vary from organization to
organization. This means that resistance can be attributed to control or opposition to the business
processes that are proposed by the organizational change process. To address resistance,