One major challenge managers and supervisors face while implementing organisational change is overcoming employees' resistance. For most organisations, the last decade has full of restructurings, process enhancements, mergers, acquisitions, and layoffs-all in hopes of achieving revenue growth and increased profitability.
Today, millions of managers who are asked to implement some changes in their organisations - a decision with which they may not even agree, are unknowingly fuelling the fire of employees' resistance to such changes. This, human resource experts, say can be avoided if only managers could apply effective change management approach from the very beginning. Change can threaten the organisational culture of a workplace and as such knowing employees have both a professional and personal stake in changes helps managers to understand resistance to change.
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