LEADERSHIP RESPOND TO ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE RESISTANCE

Leadership, Change, and Organizational Effectiveness

What is leadership? Most organizational theorists agree that effective leadership is one of the most important contributors to overall organizational success. What leadership is and what leaders do to ensure team and organizational success is less well understood. Leadership as social influence. A common definition of leadership is "a process of social influence by which an individual enlists t...

Charismatic leadership in resistance to change

In Weber's writing and in leadership theory, charismatic leadership is associated with social change. However, the importance and desirability of charismatic leaders in change processes can be questioned, as well as the notion that charismatic leaders are invariably proponents of change. There are documented cases of charismatic leaders in religious and political contexts who have opposed ongoi...

Manager’s Resistance to Organizational Change: Lesson from Ethiopian Commercial Banking Sector

The thinking and the practice of managing resistance to change is usually associated with change recipient’s psychological set up. In most cases, employees are either implicitly or explicitly considered as the prime source of resistance. Exploring the initiation and implementation of organizational change in Ethiopian commercial banks, this research found out that resistance to change does not ...

Organizational Development, Leadership, Change, and the Future of Libraries

This article discusses the actual and potential use of organizational development (OD) premises and practices in libraries. Several academic research libraries have adopted an OD approach in order to create and maintain a healthy organization, improve operations and culture, and anticipate and manage change. There are many reasons for this trend, including a natural resonance between library cu...

Deconstructing resistance to organizational change – a social representation theory approach