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Topic: If you were made responsible for introducing organizational change, what steps would you take to minimize resistance to change and why?

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  • Submitted: 26/11/2009
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Topic:

If you were made responsible for introducing organizational change, what steps would you take to minimize resistance to change and why?

Introduction:

Organizational behaviour is a subject that study and use several specialized skills, drawing on the social sciences of psychology, sociology and anthropology and it is also related to economic and political science. It is basically about people and how they organize, how and why they co-operate in work what is their motivation to work and how we can make them have better results. Organizational behaviour has four principles:

* Division of work

- specialization

* Scalar chain

- hierarchy to enable lateral and vertical communication

* Unity of command

- removes conflict

* Authority

- rights and responsibilities

Types of resistance:

Resistance is the stroke taken by persons and crowds when they recognize that an alteration that occurs is a risk to them. The risk does not need to be factual or great for the resistance to take place. Subsequently there are some ways that we can categorize the nature of resistance.

* Covert Resistance: is the way that

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