Resistance to Change

Resistance to Change
Author: Thomas R. Harvey
Publisher: R&L Education
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2010-06-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1607092166

Resistance is at the heart of the change process, yet it is often overlooked or perceived as a negative force. This book explores resistance as a natural, positive, and necessary component of change. Twenty discrete resistance factors_likely to be found in a variety of circumstances_are described. The short vignettes that accompany each make the resistance factors come alive. Beyond gaining greater insights into the nature of these sources of resistance, the reader is provided with specific strategies, or antidotes, to harness the power of resistance, transforming it from a negative to a positive force. An included survey tool, built based on questions presented at the end of each chapter, will assist leaders in assessing potential sources of resistance to change events. An eight-step resistance-based change model_transactional in nature and simple in application_supports the reader in successfully moving nearly any change project toward a positive outcome.

Making Change Irresistible

Making Change Irresistible
Author: Ken Hultman
Publisher: Davies-Black Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 9780891061212

Building on a clear presentation of the psychological factors that determine whether individuals embrace or resist change, this far-reaching work describes how to identify the source, intensity, and focus of a person's resistance to change in organizations and provides the tools for overcoming individual resistance and increasing team effectiveness.

RESISTANCE TO CHANGE - A NEW PERSPECTIVE: A Textbook for Managers Who Plan to Implement a Change

RESISTANCE TO CHANGE - A NEW PERSPECTIVE: A Textbook for Managers Who Plan to Implement a Change
Author: Daniela Bradutanu
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2015-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1329521714

The intention for this book is to present the resistance to change phenomenon from a new perspective. The term resistance is complex and very often misinterpreted. Change leaders should adapt their perspectives on this subject and try to see resistance from a positive angle as well. By just changing the prospect of analyzing it, managers could experience a greater success in implementing new changes and effectively attract more employees onto their side. Instead of trying to eliminate or suppress employees' resistance, managers should rather use their reactions in a positive framework. Resistance may be useful as feedback and therefore, managers can use it to improve and refine the organizational change process.

Project Management Leadership

Project Management Leadership
Author: Rory Burke
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2014-04-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118674014

Project Management Leadership is a comprehensive guide to the human factors involved in Project Management, in particular the leadership skills required to ensure successful implementation of current best practice. It provides the latest insights on team building, motivation, collaboration, and networking skills, and the way these can be harnessed to manage a successful project. Exercises and worked examples are provided throughout.

Change Management

Change Management
Author: Jeffrey M. Hiatt
Publisher: Prosci
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1930885180

Change management is the missing piece that takes good ideas and turns them into business success. This book is not only a solid introduction to the discipline of change management, but is the primer to catalyze change leadership and competency in your organization. The responsibility for creating competencies to manage and lead change does not rest solely with HR, but lies within all management, right to the seat of the CEO. This book is a practical look at what it means to manage the people side of change

Encyclopedia of Strategic Leadership and Management

Encyclopedia of Strategic Leadership and Management
Author: Wang, Victor C. X.
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 1895
Release: 2016-12-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1522510508

Strategic leadership techniques are the cornerstone to positive growth and prosperity within businesses and organizations. Implementing new management strategies and practices helps to ensure managers are optimizing their resources and driving innovation. The Encyclopedia of Strategic Leadership and Management investigates emergent administrative techniques and business practices being utilized within corporate and educational settings. Highlighting empirical research and best practices within the field, this encyclopedia will be an authoritative reference source for students, researchers, faculty, librarians, managers, and leaders across various disciplines and cultures.

Changing Change Management

Changing Change Management
Author: Darren McCabe
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2020-01-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0429638833

The literature on Change Management works from the premise that management possesses the power to achieve change and this is evident in that resistance is little more than a footnote in most textbooks. This assumption sits uneasily, however, with the high failure rate of Change Management interventions. This book seeks to explain this paradox by providing a critical ‘relational’ approach towards Change Management. What would a book on Change Management look like that takes resistance seriously? This book attempts precisely this by exploring how resistance is as much a part of change as the strategies of those that seek to enact it. The findings are drawn from a qualitative study of organizational transformation in a Local Government Authority in the UK. Its detailed empirical insights enable readers to explore organizational change from many different perspectives considering issues such as the strategic use of metaphor and counter-metaphors; management and employee resistance; organizational politics and cynicism. It will be of interest to researchers, academics, and students interested in change management, organizational studies, human resource management, and critical management studies.

Beyond the Wall of Resistance (Revised Edition)

Beyond the Wall of Resistance (Revised Edition)
Author: Rick Maurer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781885167729

Focuses on the critical people element in reengineering and restructuring efforts, and offers a new approach for transforming resistance in order to achieve positive outcomes and building lasting relationships.

Resistance to Belief Change

Resistance to Belief Change
Author: Joseph R. Lao
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 467
Release: 2019-09-30
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1351378392

This book examines the human proclivity to resist changing our beliefs. Drawing on psychological, neurological, and philosophical research, and integrating topics as wide ranging as emotion, cognition, social (and physical) context, and learning theory, Lao and Young explore why this resistance to change impedes our learning and progression. They also suggest that failure to adapt our beliefs to available and informed evidence can incur costs that may be seen in personal growth, politics, science, law, medicine, education, and business. Resistance to Belief Change explores the various manifestations of resistance, including overt, discursive, and especially inertial forms of resistance. As well as the influential factors that can impact upon them, the book also examines how the self-directed learner, as well as teachers, may structure the learning experience to overcome resistance and facilitate progressive and adaptive learning. Lao and Young find that the impediments to learning and resistance to change are far more prevalent and costly than previously suggested in research, and so this book will be of interest to a range of people in cognitive development, social psychology, and clinical and educational psychology.