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Dealing with change ressistance
Dealing with change ressistance

Author(s): Marija Merdzanovska
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Economy
Published by: Економски институт - Скопје
Keywords: changes; barriers for change; change resistance; strategy for overcoming the change resistance.

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the paper is the change resistance and dealing with it. In term of globalization, the environment is changeable and the companies must answer to these changes with changes inside them. The employees at the beginning of the each change, resist the new condition and changes. Because of that it is very important to learn how to deal with this.At the beginning of the paper the barriers of changes are presented. The types of sources of change resistance are analyzed. The characteristics of individual and organizational sources of change resistance should be taken in consideration. After that, the frame for overcoming the resistance to change is explored.From many different strategies, six strategies for overcoming the barriers of changes are specially analyzed: aligning with needs and costumer goals, communication and training, participation and inclusion, threats and coercion, creating change teams and creating of idea champion.The aim of this paper is to show the great importance of learning how to overcome change resistance and easier accept and adapt to the changes. With faster adjustment to the new challenges, the companies will be more competitive and will save needed energy.In order to achieve the aim of the research, the methods of induction, deduction, synthesis of systematic analyses, comparison, as well as combination of qualitative and quantitative analyses of the results have been used.

  • Issue Year: 18/2016
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 393-406
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English
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