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Organizational Behaviour: Text and Cases
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Organizational Behaviour: Text and Cases

by Kavita Singh
May 2024
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
500 pages
30h 14m
English
Pearson India
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PART IV: CHANGE PROCESSES
How People React to Change
Individual and group behaviour can vary widely across a broad spectrum of possibilities. At
one extreme is active resistance; at the other is enthusiastic support for the change (see Figure
17.6). An individual’s assessment of future status is in uenced by fears, desires, suspicions,
and beliefs. To ensure that one’s apprehensions will not “come true,” the most immediate and
obvious action that he can take is to protect and defend present (and known) status. He does
this by resisting the change.
is resistance may take many forms.  e particular form depends on the individual’s person- ...
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