Organizational Challenges and Change Resistance

Running Head: Organizational Theory
Organizational Theory

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Organizational Theory
In the 21st century, the way of working of the organization is changing with the time.
Changing environment in the organization will definitely bring the positive changes in the
working but there are some organizations that are still facing the issues related to the employees.
These changes create problems or issues in the working of the organization. The major issue
which an organization is facing today includes resistance to change. No doubt, these are most
crucial issues which are faced by most of the management across the world. This issue affects
the working of the companies (Barrow, 2014). Resistance to the change is done by the
employees; the management of the company may face employee’s resistance when they are
willing to bring the changes in the internal processes or changes in the use of technology. These
changes might be resisted by the employees due to bad communication strategy, Loss of Control,
lack of competence, lack of support system, poor timing and lack of reward. The resistance of
the employees in the organization impacts the growth and the success of the organization.
Competition is increasing day by day. It could be a small business or large business there
is competition at a single step of an organization. Free trade across the world has given the
opportunities to the companies to enter into the new markets across the world. The entrance of
the companies affects the working of the existing companies in the market. To face the
competition the company brings the changes in the organization but the management faces the
resistance (Kunze, Boehm, & Bruch, 2013).
The scarcity of the resources is one of the issues which an organization is facing; this
issue also affects the company to compete with the competitors. Resources in the organization
can be financial, human resources, physical resources, and intellectual resources. The
management of the resources in an organization is must for the working of the company. The

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company who is willing to grow and compete in the market need resources. For instance, a
company who is willing to invest in the technology to enhance the quality of the services but not
able invest due to lack of finance. This became a growth hurdle for the company (Barnett, &
Morse, 2013). Though, a company can borrow the amount from the bank or by issuing equity
and debt. Though, this issue can be resolved by the organization with the use of the effective
strategies. Considering the scarcity of the resources and the resistance to the change I found that
resistance to change is a most crucial problem that the management is facing in the today's
century.
The retention of the employees is also one of the issues which are faced by the
management. Talent retention is must for the company and management is adopting strategies to
maintain the talent in the organization. Accordingly, the resistance to the changes by the
employees is more crucial than the talent retention. The reason being the company can easily
retain the employees by giving them better workplace environment and by giving good salary
packages.
The company takes the action to deal with the issues that the management is facing today.
These issues can affect the working of the company. It is must for the organization to take the
action to resolve the issues. To resolve the issue of the resistance to the change, the management
can bring the training and development sessions for the employees. One of the effective ways to
resolve the problem of resistance to change is Training and development of employees. This will
help the employees as they get to know about the implementation of the process in their work.
Most of the employees in the organization resist because they don't want to lose their status in
the company (van den Heuvel, Demerouti, Bakker, & Schaufeli, 2013). This issue will be
resolved by providing training to the each and employee in the organization. A trained employee