Employee Objections to Organizational Change: A Framework for Addressing Management Responses
(2014) In Organization Development Journal 32(1). p.41-54- Abstract
- Research on organizational change often focuses on the nature and causes of employee objections to change, typically referred to as resistance. This paper explores managerial assumptions in this regard, suggesting a conceptual framework whereby employee objections are understood as whistle-blowing, opinion, resistance/trauma or resistance/disposition. Furthermore, it shows how each position provides legitimacy to a specific management strategy. The framework provides a tool to understand managerial attitudes and strategies, as well as how these attitudes may be understood as rhetoric or self-rationalizations.
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- author
- Bringselius, Louise LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2014
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Organizational Change, Resistance, Resistance to Change, Employee Objections
- in
- Organization Development Journal
- volume
- 32
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 41 - 54
- publisher
- International Society for Organization Development and Change
- ISSN
- 0889-6402
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 51306e8b-42da-455b-b757-58c951a63d6b (old id 4147288)
- date added to LUP
- 2016-04-01 14:28:55
- date last changed
- 2018-11-21 20:27:11
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