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Compose a 1750 words assignment on resistance to organizational change. Needs to be plagiarism free!
Compose a 1750 words assignment on resistance to organizational change. Needs to be plagiarism free! The author introduces the concept of ‘resistance to change’ as, “critical theorists and labor policy scholars argue that the interests of managers should not be privileged over the interests of workers” (Piderit, 2000, p.783). This simplification of the concept overlooks the complex analyses of the responses from the workers. This also overrules the positive intentions behind some negative responses. Complementing this view Passmore points out that resistance is actually a product of interaction or communication between the two agents involved in the change process. He also echoes Piderit’s view that a change need not be a ‘bad’ thing. The agent implementing the change should, therefore, go back to the background and the objectives of the change process rather than simply trying to overcome the resistance (Passmore, p.214). In this context, the role of leadership is worth mentioning. Resistance has to be worked through or managed by the leaders in the ideal manner (Markham, 1999, p.16). Power and Eastman (1997) brings up the role of transformational leadership in bringing about organizational change and determining the course along which the change might occur. Transformation leadership can help in implementing change through the articulation of the vision adopted by the leader, the followers or subordinates accepting this vision and an analogy stuck between the interests of the followers and the vision projected before them. .The method used by the author is that of primary survey and he collected interviews of employees from all the main levels of power relations – for instance, an ordinary employee, middle manager, and consultant. The empirical foundation cannot be strongly built based on so few interviews as the author has done. These results cannot be generalized. .