Change Management

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Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 1999 35: 25
Eric B. Dent and Susan Galloway Goldberg
gainsay Resistance to Change
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Challenging Resistance to Change
Eric B.



Dent
Susan Galloway Goldberg
The George Washington University
This article examines the origins of one of the around widely accepted amiable ensamples that
drives organizational behavior: the report that there is resistance to change and that managers
must over have it. This mental model, held by employees at all levels, interferes with
successful change implementation. The authors distinction the emergence of the term resistance
to change and show how it became received truth. Kurt Lewin introduced the term
as a systems concept, as a force affecting managers and employees equally. Because the
terminology, besides not the context, was carried forward, later uses increasingly cast the
problem as a psychological concept, personalizing the issue as employees versus managers.
Acceptance of this model confuses an understanding of change dynamics. Letting go
of the termâ€"and the model it has come to embodyâ€"will makeway for more...If you want to get a ample essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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