Employee Objections to Organizational Change: A Framework for Addressing Management Responses
Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: Research on organizational change often focuses on the nature and causes of employee objections to change, typically referred to as resistance. This paper explores managerial assumptions in this regard, suggesting a conceptual framework whereby employee objections are understood as whistle-blowing, opinion, resistance/trauma or resistance/disposition. Furthermore, it shows how each position provides legitimacy to a specific management strategy. The framework provides a tool to understand managerial attitudes and strategies, as well as how these attitudes may be understood as rhetoric or self-rationalizations.
Author: Louise Bringselius
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1852336488