Change Management: Why people resist change?

Fear psychosis of the members of the organization for the change is the main opposition to the change. A change well communicated Transformation is half won.

Inertia of the employees or the organization as whole for the notion that change will bring innovations and make their skill and technologies obsolete and they have to take on training in which new experts  replace the old ones thus some employees at operational and tactical level will have to compromise their positions.

Loss of importance and fear of loosing the job is the main fear in some of the employees having average performance scale.

The organization should be educated, counseled trained and managed well to welcome the change.

Change is imminent

change is dynamic

change is diurnal

We accept the change and mould it to our convenience we florish

We defy it, Oppose it and denounce it ,we perish.

Change is nature, every one need to challenge the changes...people who resist changes neither contribute to build society nor for themselves...

    I believe lack of communication is the main reason why people resist change. Because they do not know what they are supposed to do. The manager has not communicated well the detailed aspects of the change. People may only understand the change in broad terms and not in practical terms. They may not see what they should do differently.

Especially people from Government Enterprises and Public Sectors, they would have mastered to the existing environment of working since decades, the change management is risky to a]one has to put his efforts to learn new things b]to be competent c]it is risky because might be ridicule off failing in learning, conceiving and retention of something new or change management.

A vacation is a change from the routine. We look forward to it. A festival offers a change in the way we eat, dress, use the time....We look forward to festival holidays?

Change is not something we resist automatically; let us acknowledge the fact that change adds 'spice' to life which otherwise tends to become bland.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming experts teach that humans choose what they believe to the best for them, when presented with options to choose from.

The so called resistance comes in when the change presented is not perceived as a better option than the one they are holding on to.

Most HR people seem to assume that people are lethargic to get out of their 'comfort zone'. But, even then, the best strategy to get people moving to embrace the proposed change is to show how it offers a better option! And, present the proposed  better option in an exciting way - with evidence to prove the proposed options to be truly better for the person you want to change.

Make the options you want others to choose truly a better option than the one they are holding on to; and learn to present it in a very attractive way so they will risk abandoning a 'proven' choice they have - showing how the new one will more than compensate the risk of abandoning the old one.

Let's assume people are rational. Imagining they won't change or resist irrationally a better option is counter productive.

It's a question of your beliefs about people you want to work with, and work for. Let us not give up faith in their rationality!

If you are into training, you may want to read on my reflections on 'beliefs and training' at:http://rajanlp.blogspot.com/

The reason why people resist change is that they do not know why they should undertake a specific change.They may not be convinced about the purpose of the change or they may not see the benefits of the change. Hence, they would not commit themselves to the change and cooperate to ensure its success.

Well when a change happenes in todays  scenarion specially in business individual have the fera to loose the followings :

PEOPLE : followers  who  always put  butter

POWER: authorization individual got before the change

PROFIT: emotional or financial benifits by the above two

PROCESS: as mostely new changes are making processes transperant, the old process with hidden corruption is going to be eliminated

Thank You.

Sanjib Kumar

CERTAIN  : HEURISTIC : and   : NOM DE PLUME   : anti  GESTAPO : ENDEAVOURS

People limit themselves to their experience,live in their own shell and moreover donot want to put more efforts in learning new practices and ideas.If the person is contented with what he has achieved over the years,he would never opt for new ideas or experiments.

whenever there is change people dont accept it immediately. Particularly if we talk about country like India, where people dont want to change & also resist change in management. Ultimately change involve pain & people dont want the pain, they want to work on their own traditional jobs like a postman. 

placed. tHERE is a desire to change one's job if there is lack of clarity, or the post is stagnant with no scope foor further growth and opportunity.  A new environment takes time; but once the impression is generated there is an onward progression in all genres. In personal lives, why do people wish to part from their so called comfort zone; primarily due to lack of companionship and compatability and may be financial constraints. So, Change, finally depends on the mindset and psychology of the individual and if he has mad up his mind to adapt to a new circumstance, irrespective of any obstacle, then success is his.

Regars

LATA

People are ready to change, learn, take challenges and prove themselves.

For example you can see the nuclear families where both wife and husband are taking responsibilities and helping mutually, such kind of living itself helps them to grow.

People are moving to different locations for their job leaving their comfort at their home town and students are leaving their countries for their studies for better education.

For a better purpose definitely everyone takes step to change themselves. 

If you consider an individual who has invested 20-25 years to learn academics and then investing a good amount of time in the first jobs, after learning a good amount of knowledge from all these years he can understand what works for him, assess the better living for him, at this moment no one tries again to commit mistake by trying to change.

It takes a lot of time to change individuals like above, you need to able to make them learn things in proper manner and be patient to assess them regularly and giving them exercises to cope up with the situations where they need to reveal the "change" taken in them.

the basic mindset backward //and\\or // forward is tough really tough to change ..

edges can be smoothened  but not the core  ::

I think change management require execution of Fair process that consist of 3 things-

Engagement- It means involving individuals in the strategic decision making that affect them by asking for their input and allowing them to refute the merits of one another's ideas and assumption. It communicates management's respect for individuals and their ideas.  

Explanation-It means that everyone involved and affected should understand why final strategic decisions are made as they are.

Expectation clarity- It requires that after a strategy is set, managers state clearly that new rules of the game. Employee should know up front what standards they will be judged by and the penalties for failure. What are the goals of the new strategy? What are the new targets and milestones? Who is responsible for what?

I share with you a very good example mentioned in a book "Blue ocean strategy"-

Being a human being and create intangible assets of our life cycle in the path of success and to know the secret of success by 3Ps i.e. People, Process, Portfolio/Product into TIME means Technology, Innovation, Management & Enterpreneurs only to customized and integrated approach in right time manage by technology process, knowledgeable professionals skills and positive attitude to Change Management is not a Solutions but establish the brand building relationship being human being first then think to learn and earn how the work going on and to ensure the development relationship with all the resouces.

lack of confidence.  Scared of loosing their job. lack of techinical skill compared to the skill sets of present generation.