Nov 17 2006
Change
Change is a disruption to established routines and expectations
- Within any organizational culture, only 20 percent of the members will readily embrace change, 50 percent will adopt a wait and see attitude, and 30 percent will strongly resist change.
Reasons for Personal Resistance to Change:
- Fear of the unknown
- Things are already just fine, I don’t understand the need for change.
- Cynicism about change, particularly from reading about the notion of “change” as if it’s a mantra.
- Doubt that there are effective means to accomplish major organizational changes
Organizational-wide Reasons for Resistance to Change:
- Conflicting goals in the organization, e.g., to increase resources to accomplish the change yet concurrently cut costs to remain viable.
- “Office Politics”