Chapter 9

Resistance to Organizational Change: Individual Reactions to Change on the Emotional, Attitudinal, and Behavioral Levels

Ingvild Berg Saksvik and Hilde Hetland

Abstract

Individual differences in perception of organizational change are assumed to affect both the change process, and it’s results. Research indicates that some individuals seem to resist most organizational changes. This chapter presents a recent approach to dispositional resistance to change, and discusses the concept’s relation to other individual difference variables, as well as practical implications of focusing on dispositional resistance to change in an organizational change process.

Total Pages: 70-75 (6)

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