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Management - Resistance to Change 

The management and overcoming of resistance to change is a major success factor in any change initiative. On this site you can find external links on topics like
- reasons for resistance to change
- strategies for overcoming resistance to change

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“Oh no not another initiative!”	Resistance to Change in Organisations and how to deal with it.
Can You Overcome Resistance to Change?
Employee Resistance to Organizational Change	Resistance defined, research about resistance, nature and causes, positive resistance, transition and transitional phenomena
Four Antidotes to Change Resistance	Four techniques can mitigate the emotional and cultural challenges of achieving strategic transformations in organizations.
How and why people resist	Resistance to change takes many forms.
How to Increase Employee Commitment to Change	Employees more readily commit to change when they understand why it is occurring and how it will benefit them and their organization. Learn how to use a very effective tool to provide this "big picture" understanding and generate greater employee commitment.
How to manage resistance to change	“How do I handle resistance to change.” This newsletter aims to answer that question.
Managing Resistance to Change	Effective leaders need to manage the logical consistency of change in an organization. 2005
Managing Six Sigma Change Resistance	Proper anticipation and understanding the approaches to various resistance tactics is essential to success. Also applicable to other change initiatives
Organizational change: dealing with naysayers	This brief article offers pragmatic advice on how to handle “naysayers” when leading organizational change.
Resistance to Change	A Manager’s Short Primer on Resistance to Change in Organizations.
Resistance to Change	Factors affecting the adoption of change
Resistance to Change: A Literature Review and Empirical Study	Through empirical research, the authors have analyzed the importance of the sources of resistance to change defined theoretically, also considering both types of changes. They have shown which sources of resistance differ most, according to the scope of change, offering hints about where organizations should pay special attention when initiating a change process.
Six Change Approaches (Kotter)	The six change approaches from Kotter and Schlesinger is a model to prevent, decrease or minimize resistance to change in organizations
Strategies: Addressing Resistance to Change	One-Page-Chart. Pdf-file
Taking Advantage of Resistance to Change	(and the TOC Thinking Processes) to Improve Improvements
Tension and Resistance to Change in Organizational Climate:	Managerial Implications for a Fast Paced World. Pdf-file 1999
The flair of resistance to change	An employee-centred perspective.
The Key to Innovation: Overcoming Resistance	CIOs should be investing less time in brainstorming good ideas and more time in targeting the sources of resistance to change
Understanding and Managing Cynicism About Organizational Change	Cynicism about organizational change can become a self-fulfilling prophecy if cynics refuse to support change.
What Blocks Support?	This brief article identifies three levels of resistance