Resistance to Change – a New Perspective: A Textbook for Managers Who Plan to Implement a Change

The biggest problem is not the change itself, but management’s inability to anticipate the employees’ reluctance and to respond accordingly.

1.Why do we call such reaction from the employees’ side resistance?.
2.If we would consider resistance as feedback, how could it help improve the change process?.

The term “resistance” used in the context of organizational change describes people’s reluctance to give up the comfort of their status quo. Employees grow accustomed to a certain situation, form specific habits, and then find these habits very difficult to give up.