Organisational Change Management and Workers' Behaviour: A Critical Review
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Change is the only constant phenomenon. An organisation that fails to
recognise the inevitability of change is doomed to fail. However, workers'
behaviour towards change has become a serious issue facing today's
management in complex and ever evolving organisations. Employees'
resistance to change has been identified as a critical contributor to the failure of
many well-intended and well-conceived efforts to initiate change within the
organisation. This paper therefore examines the reasons for workers' resistance
to change as well as the impact of organisational change on workers'
behaviour within the workplace and how organisations can manage change
processes in order to elicit the right and anticipated behaviour from workers in
line with the changing business needs. The theoretical synthesis of thoughts
drawn from the tenets of the "Individual Perspectives School" and "the Group
Dynamics School" is the basis for the explication of the dynamics of
organisational change and workers' attitude towards it. This paper contends
that securing the support and cooperation of workers through obtaining the
right and anticipated behaviour is critical today as ever to the successful
implementation of change programmes in organisations
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HM Sociology