(PDF) Organizational Change Management

ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE MANAGEMENT –
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Table of Contents
Introduction – Literature Review................................................3
Workplace Changes.........................................................................3
Resistance to Change......................................................................3
Reasons for resistance to change...............................................3
Managing resistance to change – Critique...................................5
Conclusion................................................................................ 8
References...............................................................................9

Introduction – Literature Review
Workplace Changes
Since the spread of globalisation, the competition in the world has drastically
increased. Business organisations are at a war with each other and it is becoming
harder to survive in the market with each coming day. The fluctuating internal and
external environment factors, such as economic, social, technological, political,
environmental, etc. are forcing business organisations to implement minor as well as
major workplace changes so that they can cope up with the market trends and
remain in competition. Thus, change in the business world has become inevitable
and is considered to be one of the most challenging tasks for human resource
managers and leaders of organisations.
Resistance to Change
Resistance to change is defined as the state where stakeholders of a business
organisation resist workplace changes in case they perceive the change as a threat
to their power or position. Resistance to change is one of the prime reasons behind
the failure of change programs and dealing with resistance to change programs is a
nightmare for most of the human resource managers and leaders. Therefore,
managing resistance to change programs is becoming an important subject in the
field of business and new researches are being carried out regularly to understand
the reasons behind the generation of resistance to change and to identify strategies
that can help in managing resistance to change.
In this report, we will conduct a literature review to understand the prime causes
behind the generation of resistance to change and the impact that it can have on an
organisation. Based on this information, we will discuss certain strategies that can be
adopted by human resource managers or change agents to deal with resistance to
change.