A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. The risk of change is seen as greater than the risk of standing still making a change requires a kind of leap of faith. While resistance to change has been usually conceived as a quintessential human response, individuals may have different reasons for their resistant behaviors. Resistance to organizational change benard mwori sorre department of anthropology and human ecology school of arts and social sciences,moi university abstract. Resistance is a state of mind reflecting unwillingness or unreceptiveness to change in the ways we think and behave. While not all resistance is bad, a failure to adapt and change in the business world can have disastrous consequences. Overcome resistance to change with two conversations.
This indepth research study adds to existing research in the field by diving deeper into particular facets of resistance management. Resistance to change is another concept which obviously has been misunderstood by subsequent scholars and even more by practitioners. Resistance to change is the act of opposing or struggling with modifications or transformations that alter the status quo. Resistance can be contrasted with readiness, which is a state of mind reflecting willingness or receptiveness to change. After the segments on resistance to change, our five sample texts turn to a discus sion of administrative change, technological change, and structural change.
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