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- Loss of control. Change interferes with autonomy and can make people feel that they’ve lost control over their territory. It’s not just political, as in who has the power.
- Excess uncertainty. If change feels like walking off a cliff blindfolded, then people will reject it. People will often prefer to remain mired in misery than to head toward an unknown.
- Surprise, surprise! Decisions imposed on people suddenly, with no time to get used to the idea or prepare for the consequences, are generally resisted.
- Everything seems different. Change is meant to bring something different, but how different? We are creatures of habit. Routines become automatic, but change jolts us into consciousness, sometimes in uncomfortable ways.
Jul 1, 2023 · Change and its resistance have been ever-present throughout history. However, the accelerated rate, unpredictability, and quantity of change that organizations and individuals must deal with in such an interconnected, high-tech, and complex world—as well as the potential consequences of organizational, social, cultural, economic, and political changes—underscores change and resistance to ...
The Real Reason People Won’t Change. It’s a psychological dynamic called a “competing commitment,” and until managers understand how it works and the ways to overcome it, they can’t do a ...
- Mistrust and lack of confidence. When employees don’t trust or feel confident in the person making the change, their resistance to it can be a huge barrier.
- Emotional responses. Changing the status quo is complex and people tend to react emotionally to disruptions to their routine. This is a natural and inevitable response.
- Lack of training and help resources. Resistance to change often emerge when employees feel unprepared to adapt and adopt new processes due to a lack of onboarding, upskill training, and end-user support resources to guide them through the initial learning curve and friction points in a new process, team structure, or software implementation.
- Fear of failure. People won’t support a change if they’re not confident in their abilities to adapt to it. When people feel threatened by their shortcomings (real or imagined), they protect themselves from failure by resisting the change.
Aug 21, 2021 · Since employee resistance is a factor that significantly contributes to the failure of a change (Sirkin et al., 2005), serious research efforts have been undertaken to identify predictors of the resistance, individual and collective perceptions about change, their influence on the resistance, benefits, and threats associated with change (Erwin and Garman, 2010; Colquitt et al., 2013).
Apr 13, 2022 · Regardless of the prevalence and value of change initiatives in contemporary organizations, these often face resistance by employees. This resistance is the outcome of change recipients’ cognitive and behavioral reactions towards change. To better understand the causes and effects of reactions to change, a holistic view of prior research is needed. Accordingly, we provide a systematic ...
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Mar 9, 2022 · Prosci research participants identified five primary reasons managers resist change: Organizational culture issues. Lack of awareness and knowledge about change. Lack of support and commitment for change management. Misalignment of project goals and personal incentives. Lack of confidence in their ability to manage change.
