Assessing Resistance in Change Transition Phase: A Report

This report delves into the critical aspects of organizational change, focusing on the transition phase and the role of leadership in navigating this period. It explores the manager's role in assessing change movement, highlighting the importance of communication, and addressing resistance stemming from job security concerns, role misunderstandings, poor reward systems, and organizational politics. The report identifies factors influencing resistance assessment and feedback mechanisms for managers. It then outlines five strategies to minimize resistance: preparing for change, managing the change process, reinforcing the change, identifying root causes, and increasing awareness. Finally, it discusses success factors, emphasizing employee competency and the importance of a well-chosen organizational change strategy to enhance overall performance. The report references various academic sources to support its analysis.

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Organization Development and Change
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1. Discuss the role of the manager or the leader in the assessment of the movement of the
organization through the transition phase of the change.
The report by the different organizations has analyzed the different denominators that
lead the successful changes during the transitional phase of the change recorded in any
organization. The managers in this respect play a very important role in analyzing the initiatives
of the daily works. The manager will also possess the ability to lead their employees in that
direction where the employees will become the most important deciding factor of the
organizational changes. A defined framework of the organizational changes and the phase of
transition observed in any organization will allow the managers to lead through the different
changes that the organizations will face in the present context (Jack et.al 2019).
The model on the change management tools will specifically guide the managers that will
recognize the factor of the change through mainly two organizational perspectives where the first
one lies in the preparation of the different individuals associated in the organization and leading
the employees present in the organization through the different phases of the change. The
preparation of the different individuals will be mainly prominent in the staff and the mid-level
employees of the organization where the managers will remain unaware of the different level of
the changes that will take place in the organizational context (Schiro & Neelin, 2019).
The most powerful tool to overcome the level of the resistance among the managers of
the organization to provide them with the different tools that will be identified by the members of
the organization. This is exactly the situation where the initial phases of the change management
theory will resolve the resistance level faced by them. The change management process should
also be characterized by the evaluation of the different changes that will characterize the nature

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of the impacts different changes and the addressing of the various levels of the resistance
(Maxton & Bushe, 2018)
2. Identify and discuss any five reasons for the resistance that are evident during the
transition phase of the organization.
The five reasons why resistance becomes important in the transition phase of any
organization are:
 Lack of Communication: The core management of any company rests on the basic
premise of the good communication media among the different staff of the organization.
So lack or any type of disruption in the communication media will lead to the increase in
the resistance level in the organization. Therefore the meetings and the different agenda
of any organization will depend on the effective mode of communication among the
members.
 The threats losing job: The employees resist the idea of the change in the transition
phase of the organization because of their job security measures. For many employees the
idea of change have the similar connotation with the concepts of the downsizing
measures that will make the factor of resistance a natural response to the different
changes taking place in the workplace environment (Kim, et.al 2018).
 Misunderstanding created by new roles: The changes that occur in any organization
also gives this response too many employees that their job roles and the different types of
the job responsibilities will shift as well that can create the increased level of the anxiety
among the different employees working in an organization (Kozachenko et,al 2016).
 Poor alignment of the reward systems: Resistance in the organizational context also
rise because of the poor form of the reward distribution system. The employees working

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in an organization should be equally and effectively rewarded for the hard work that they
have done for the organization and for the credibility of their working standards. The
poor system of the reward distribution system will often demotivate the employees in
working hard towards the progress of the organization (Nabila, Morel & Aggeri, 2019).
 Organizational Politics: The various forms of the organizational politics and the
associated strikes and the protests triggered by the various employees of the organization
lead to the increase in the resistance factor in the changes taking place in the transition
phase of the organization. The role of the politics played in the organization affects the
effective functioning (Zadek, 2019).
3. Describe the different areas that would lead to the assessment of the resistance factor.
Discuss the feedback mechanisms too that will be used by the manager to identify the level
of resistance in the employees of the organization.
The factors that lead to the evaluation and the assessment of the various types of the changes
depend on the threat of the power structure of the individuals at the initial level where the
managers are likely to resist the different types of changes that will decrease the power and will
eventually transfer the power structure to the associated subordinates. The various economic
factors also give rise to the assessment of the resistance factor in any organization. The different
levels of the organization will be evident from the side of the employees of the organization as
the aspects will rise or fall in comparison to the existing set of the given economic privileges that
will bring the employees of the organization on the basis of the basic forms of the economic
privileges that will be implemented at the time of the transition or when the organization will
pass through the various phases of the change (Ivanov et.al 2020).

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There are various mechanisms in which the managers of an organization can identify the
different levels of the resistance in the organization. The mechanisms are first the change of the
management style from the very beginning. The resistance to the change that is experienced by
any organization can be avoided an can be done away with the tool of the management change
that will act as the most important tool for the activation and the engagement systems for the
employees who are involved in the process of change taking place in the organizational context.
The second mechanism is the rising level of the expectations of the change accruing to the
various organizations. Fear of heading towards the unknown future of the organization often
leads to the increasing level of the anxiety among the different employees who work in any
organization (Kleinpeter et.al 2019).
4. Describe the five strategies that will be used by the managers in order to ensure the
resistance levels in the organization will be minimized.
The five strategies that should be followed are as follows:
 Preparation for the Change: At the time of the creation of the strategies of the change
management the managers should be able to anticipate the different points of the
resistance of any organizational perspective that will be associated with the various
practices that will be managed on the basis of the readiness management.
 Management of the Change: The plan for the effective implementation of the processes
of change that is evident in the organization will be possible by the evaluation of the
feedback mechanisms that will be able to identify the different gaps in the management
of the resistance level that will occur in the transition phase of the organization. The
reduction in the resistance faced by the organization therefore should be reduced in order
to eliminate the management gaps faced by the employees in the organization.

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 Reinforcement of the Change: In the final phase of the transition phase, the collection
of the feedback of the organization occurs to manage the level of the resistance level
occurring in the transition phase of the organization.
 Identification of the Root Causes of the Changes: In order to manage the level of the
resistance level in the organization, the managers need to first identify the main causes or
the reasons that are leading to the various level of the changes in the organizational
perspective. To be effective in the management of the resistance level the managers need
to dive deep down in to the ultimate causes of the resistance. The resistance that comes in
the way in the performance of the organization should be reduced at any cost in order to
pave the way for the smooth process of change during the transition phase of the
organization.
 Increasing level of Awareness: The increase in the level of the awareness level of the
different managers in the organizational context will lead to the reduction in the
resistance factor for the changes that are prominent within the organization. The level of
the awareness will also increase and enhance the organizational performance and the
success of the particular organization.
5. Describe and discuss the success factors that would probably indicate the different
strategies that can reduce the resistance level faced by the organization.
The individual in the organizational context will enjoy the various level of the changes
that will pose the challenges in the workplace environment. The organization after its proper
choice of the organizational change in the workplace environment will encourage the
organizational changes that will be evaluated in order to assess them. The employees working in
any specific organization will use the various competency levels that will be characterized with

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the new platforms and the mechanisms. This process will require the basic effort s in order to
analyze the basic efforts whether in the conscious or in the not so conscious manner in order to
enhance the organizational performance (Palaniyappan et,al , 2018).

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