Personality, context, and resistance to organizational change

Temporal context, preference, and resistance to change.

According to behavioral momentum theory, preference and relative resistance to change in concurrent-chains schedules are correlated and reflect the relative conditioned value of discriminative stimuli. In the present study, we explore the generality of this relation by manipulating the temporal context within a concurrent-chains procedure through changes in the duration of the initial links. Co...

Overcoming Resistance to Organizational Change: Strong Ties and Affective Cooptation

We propose a relational theory of how change agents in organizations use the strength of ties in their network to overcome resistance to change. We argue that strong ties to potentially influential organization members who are ambivalent about a change (fence-sitters) provide the change agent with an affective basis to coopt them. This cooptation increases the probability that the organization ...

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 ...

Deconstructing resistance to organizational change – a social representation theory approach

Innovation in the nonprofit organizational context: examining the strategic significance of systems trust and individual resistance to change

In the context of globalization, technological advances, and the development of the knowledge economy, organizations must innovate to remain competitive. Recently, the call for innovation in public and nonprofit sector organizations has increased. These organizations, which rely on tax exemption, state allocations, or charitable contributions, must innovate for practical and symbolic reasons. W...