Contents

• Introduction 2
• Resistance to Change 2
• Critical Analysis of relationship between Power and Resistance in Organizational Change 4
• Analysis of the Ethics of Managerial and Resistant Positions 6
• Assessment of Implications of Managerial and of Resistant Positions for achieving Effective Change Management Programme 7
• Conclusion 9
• References 10

Description

This paper is based on the following requirement -
Why is resistance to change frequently demonised as a problem that must be managed” What are the ethical implications of this and how else can resistance be understood”

You may use examples from your own organisation to illustrate your essay.
1. Drawing on your subject material and wider reading from the academic literature, identify and examine why change is resisted, and why resistance is problematical as something to be managed.
2. From a critical perspective, examine the relationship between power and resistance in the
context of organisational change.
3. Analyse the ethics of the managerial and of resistant positions.
4. Assess the implications of the managerial and of resistant positions for achieving an effective change management programme.
5. Draw conclusions that summarise your work and address the essay question.