Challenges Facing the Field of Organizational Change Management: Literature Review

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Literature Review............................................................................................................................3
Critiques of the Literature Review..................................................................................................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
References........................................................................................................................................7
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The Challenges Facing the Field of Organizational Change
Management
Introduction
This study is mainly aiming at conducting the literature review related to Challenges Facing the
Field of Organizational Change Management. Five journal articles shall be chosen here, and each
of them shall be reviewed. After this, a critique of those articles and literary data shall be
conducted and conclusion shall be drawn upon them.
Literature Review
1. The Limits of Organizational Change by Herbert Kaufman:
This journal speaks about the various kinds of challenges that the business organization fail
while bringing an air of Organizational Change. Mainly there are three kinds of challenges or
oppositions that are faced and they can be divided or defined fewer than three main types:
● Acknowledged collective benefits of stability: In order to make an organization function,
some definite constraints are present. This is the regularity of the work or the process and
its overall repetitive nature. It has to be considered that if such repetitive nature has to be
avoided, then the organization shall not be able to function properly and in a team
structure. This becomes one of the biggest challenges for change.
● Calculated opposition to change: People try to resist such kind of changes which had
been serving them with special kind of advantage in the first place
(www.journals.sagepub.com, 2018). This change in organization and management related
to it faces issues in bringing change in this kind of circumstances.
● Inability to change: It has to be considered that effective timing has to chalked out and
the resources have to present at the disposition of the management body, otherwise
change cannot be brought. This also is a major challenge that is poised to change in
organizations.
2. Organizational Change — Threat or Challenge? By Helen Taylor and Cary Cooper
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