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Resistance to Change in Public Organization: Reasons and How to Overcome It

European Journal of Business Science and Technology

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Title Resistance to Change in Public Organization: Reasons and How to Overcome It
 
Creator Amjad, Ayesha
Rehman, Muqqadas
 
Description The objective behind this paper is to explore the main sources of resistance to change and how that resistance effects the whole organization. Employees `duty and overseeing resistance effectively are basic essentials for forceful change management. This paper implements qualitative approach to observe the employees` resistance to change in one of the government organization working under Ministry of Industries of Pakistan. This is a qualitative study in which sample of 10 interviews have been conducted from the managers, deputy managers and executives working in this government organization. As indicated by Kurt Lewin's force field analysisthis study shows, a manager looking for to "push" the procedure of organizational change must put all push to decrease the impact of preventing forces while expanding the impact of main driving forces and along these lines work with resistance of employees towards change.
 
Publisher Mendel University in Brno
 
Date 2018-07-31
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://journal.ejobsat.cz/index.php/ejobsat/article/view/129
10.11118/ejobsat.v4i1.129
 
Source European Journal of Business Science and Technology; Vol 4 No 1 (2018); pp. 56–68
2694-7161
2336-6494
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://journal.ejobsat.cz/index.php/ejobsat/article/view/129/154
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2018 Ayesha Amjad, Muqqadas Rehman
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