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Understanding and Coping with Change
Change is everywhere, yet very few people seem to embrace the concept. We are, for the most part, creatures of habit and follow daily routines. When change occurs, our activities and thought patterns are disrupted.
Write a four- to five-page APA formatted paper (excluding the title and reference pages), using a minimum of three scholarly sources in addition to the textbook, analyzing the internal and external factors contributing to an individual’s resistance to change.
Describe a situation where you or someone you know was resistant to change as identified in one of following areas:
- Self-interest
- Lack of understanding
- Lack of trust in management
- Differing assessments of the need for change
- Low tolerance for change
Explain whether the resistance to change was caused by an internal or external factor. Using Kotter’s theory for change, provide a plan for overcoming that resistance. What will be done and how will you know that the plan has worked?
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Understanding and Coping with Change
Dealing with change can be stressful, uncomfortable and scary. Once the change is implemented,
it can be embraced, resisted or coped with. Coping and dealing with change is one of the things
that require much attention and devotion. Mostly, many people are often scared of change
because they are afraid of the unknown among other reasons (Jean, Phillips & Stanelly, 2011).
Change is inevitable and various individuals ought to resist it based on their self-interests. Thus,
resistance to change is neither harmful nor bad, however; it has a negative impact on process
adaptation and progress. Additionally, the reason for resistance to change is divided into two
categories which may be either organizational or individual resistance to change (& D'Amelio,
2008). There was a case where I was involved in resistance to change, and this was due to lack of
trust in the management system of the organization I was working with. The management
dictated that there would be changes in job assignment in some departments such as sales
department which I was in. I was the chairman of the sales department in the organization, and
the management had also dictated that my job assignment was to be changed and I was to be paid
based on my performance. This made me sad and sought to resist implementation of this change
due to lack of trust in the o...
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