How Executive Coaching
Can Help Resistance to Change
Employee resistance to change is a In order to facilitate a smooth transition
complex issue facing management in the from the old to the new, organisations
ever-evolving organisation of today. The must be competent in effective change
process of change is ubiquitous, and management. The process of change
employee resistance has been management consists of getting all of
identified as a critically important those involved and affected to accept the
contributor to the failure of many introduced changes as well as manage
well–intended and well– any resistance to them.
conceived efforts to
initiate change within an Change usually involves
organisation. an individual’s psyche, so
there are no concrete
In many cases, textbook answers and
organisations expend solutions to the problem.
vast amounts of Since each individual is
resource to adjust different, perceptions and
employees to a new way reasons for resisting are
of achieving also different. As a result,
desired goals. The researchers and scholars
natural reaction for can theorise on how to
individuals to defend lessen or remove
the status quo presents a employee resistance to
set of challenges that management must change, but in the final analysis the only
overcome in order to bring about desired way to do so effectively is to understand
change. Management must also seriously the unique circumstances within each
consider the myriad problems that may individual that are causing their particular
result if they are not responsive to issues resistance.
of resistance in the workplace.
Change is intensely personal. For change
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